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Mr. Mihai Badic

Ph. D. Electrical Engineering

researcher - INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE PENTRU INGINERIE ELECTRICA ICPE - CA BUCURESTI

Researcher

Expertise & keywords

Equipment and technology for waste recycling by selective disassembly with HV electric impulse Call name: Joint Applied Research Projects - PCCA 2013 - call
PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-1100 2014 - 2017

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE PENTRU INGINERIE ELECTRICA ICPE - CA BUCURESTI

Project partners: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE PENTRU INGINERIE ELECTRICA ICPE - CA BUCURESTI (RO); UPS PILOT ARM S.R.L. (RO); SILVER TRADING S.R.L. (RO)

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE PENTRU INGINERIE ELECTRICA ICPE - CA BUCURESTI (RO)

Project website: http://www.icpe-ca.ro/proiecte/proiecte-nationale/pn-2014/itesedez.pdf (se deschide cu Internet Explorer si Google Chrome)

Abstract:

The topic of this project proposal enters in the thematic area corresponding to ENVIRONMENT domain, as it refers to an installation and afferent technology for selective disassembly of wastes from electric/electronic equipments as well as for the recovery of ferrous and nonferrous metals from the slag resulted after burning household wastes. The actuality and necessity of this topic are supported by numerous European directives concerning recycling wastes and recovery of reusable materials. Actually, Romania is required, as the other European countries, to recycle 4 kg/inhabitant of wastes from electric/electronic equipments. This recycling, as it is done now, involves many steps, a considerable amount of manual labour, a relatively low efficiency on recovery/recycling, and the risk to contaminate the environment/personnel with noxious substances resulting from disassembly processes.

The proposed method is a cutting-edge electrotechnology and knows a single European manufacturer of such equipments. Even this manufacturer applies the method only exceptionally on selective disassembly of wastes from electric and electronic equipments (WEEE), the installations being designed mainly for selective fragmentation of rocks, with application in extractive industry. The reason for this limitation consists primarily in the fact that although the method is particularly efficient in the technical point of view, its energy efficiency is low because the repeatable pulse generator of high voltage and high power, the main part of the installation, is a considerable energy consumer.

The idea and in the same time, the novelty of this project consist in applying a method relatively known in high voltage tests technique – principle of synthetic diagrams – to build the repeatable pulse generator as a component of the installation proposed as experimental model (and the afferent technology). Thus, a new type of device will be achieved for producing high voltage repeatable pulses, much more versatile in terms of specific parameters of pulses.

Thus, although we’ll have two impulse generators – a voltage pulse generator and a current pulse generator - operating in synchronous mode, the specific energy consumption will be reduced by approximately 50% because the amount of energy specific to each generator (CU2/2) will be much lower.

The voltage pulse generator serves to create the channels of disruptive discharge in the mass of solid material, while the current pulse generator will cause the formation of plasma and disassembly of the material.

In the last decades, many applications of impulse generators (mainly Marx type) were developed: generating electron flows, laser sources, electrodynamic fragmentation (EDF) which includes selective fragmentation, sewage water cleaning, biomass dehydration.

The success of this proposal is favoured by the fact that the project director has a rich experience in designing, building, and working with impulse generators, in a high voltage test laboratory, as well as by the team’s training/expertise in the domain of environmental issues, complex installations, and not least in achieving special mechanical structures.

Once accomplished, the experimental model as well as the afferent technology will be validated in terms of functionality and utility and will be implemented in the domestic industry. The implementation aims the ENVIRONMENT domain, (selective disassembly of WEEE and recovery of metals from slag resulted from burning household wastes) but also the selective fragmentation of conglomerate rocks.

Given the extended range of applications, a substantial economic efficiency is expected for industrial partners.

ESD protective garments made with core conductive fibres knitted in double layer Call name: Joint Applied Research Projects - PCCA-2011 call, Type 2
PN-II-PT-PCCA-2011-3.2-0567 2012 - 2016

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE PENTRU TEXTILE SI PIELARIE - INCDTP BUCURESTI

Project partners: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE PENTRU TEXTILE SI PIELARIE - INCDTP BUCURESTI (RO); UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICĂ "GHEORGHE ASACHI" IAŞI (RO); INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE PENTRU INGINERIE ELECTRICA ICPE - CA BUCURESTI (RO); TANEX S.R.L. (RO)

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE PENTRU INGINERIE ELECTRICA ICPE - CA BUCURESTI (RO)

Project website: http://www.certex.ro/Proiecte/PNCDI2179/

Abstract:

Electrostatic discharge (ESD) and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) for protection products will boost in the next 5 to 10 years in order to overcome the vulnerability of electronic devices to static electricity and electromagnetic inference at high frequencies. As the semiconductor industry will increase protection for on-chip and in-fab applications and post-fab handling and preservation of micro-electronic products, the demand of ESD/EMC garments is expected to attain a turnover of US $480 million by 2015. Presently, the ESD garments are realized as conductive composite textiles by combining conventional textile fibres with conductive ones and/or by surface treatment with hygroscopic agents to endow good conductive properties. The manufacturing technology is similar to the one used for standard clothing. Within the present proposal new ESD garments concept and manufacturing technology are proposed, making use of a single structure (integral) knitting of core conductive fibres. The integral knitting will assure an intrinsic electrical continuity within the whole garment. The functionalization of the new structure will be realized: (1) at macrostructure level, the fibre’s continuity being ensured by the integral knitting technology, with high ESD effects, (2) at microstructural level by use of different conducting fillers structures. The research methodology for developing the final structure is encompassing specialised electromagnetic simulation of conductive fibres in predefined spatial architectures, ESD/EMC measurements, textile technology design and testing for integral knitting. In terms of economic benefits, the potential impact will be the development of a versatile technology and also of a product with flexible tailored features for intersectorial markets, general EMC/ESD knowledge expanding, technology transfer plan for the involved industrial partners with an envisaged increase of employment and turnover.

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