Complete dry recycleable MRF plant performance testing to identify opportunities for improvements.

Client:

National MRF operator

Challenge:

• Client lacked mass balance data and was unable to calculate separation efficiencies of MRF equipment
• Client wanted to know of any equipment underperformance and process flow efficiencies and understand where improvements could be made

Axion solution:

• Planned, managed and carried out a complete mass balance of the process
• Applied careful and innovative sampling and measurement techniques to obtain data from complex processes
• Calculated separation efficiencies of all equipment using data obtained via compositional analysis on all products and the sampled intermediate streams
• Built interactive mass balance tool to process the data and the separation efficiencies, designed so that the feed composition could be changed and process outputs estimated using existing efficiencies
• Made recommendations on how to improve the yield and quality of products through equipment optimisation and modified process flows

Results:

• Client now understands separation efficiencies of all plant equipment
• Client now has an interactive mass balance tool they can use as part of ongoing plant performance management
• An opportunity to build in a recycle loop was identified, with the financial benefit presented to the client