[특허]Advanced manufacturing system to recycle carpet

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Advanced manufacturing system to recycle carpet

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국가/구분	United States(US) Patent 등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)	B02C-023/00 C08J-011/06 B29B-017/02 B02C-023/08 B29B-017/00
출원번호	US-0346598 (2016-11-08)
등록번호	US-9676917 (2017-06-13)
발명자 / 주소	Tian, Xinting Brice, Gail Moot, Lorence Lu, Frank
출원인 / 주소	XT Green, Inc.
대리인 / 주소	Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker
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An advanced manufacturing plant and process to efficiently deconstruct and recycle post-consumer carpet primarily in an aqueous environment. The water-based technology substantially eliminates airborne particulate emissions into the workplace and the environment. It also significantly increases the quality and quantity of the resources recovered from the carpet. In addition to recycling residential carpet, it also reclaims and recycles material from commercial broadloom carpet.

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A carpet recycling plant for separating nylon fibers, polypropylene fibers and calcium carbonate from post-consumer carpet, the plant comprising: the post-consumer carpet having nylon fibers, polypropylene fibers and calcium carbonate;an air controlled room which provides additional control of airborne particulates;a shredder for gross size reduction of the post-consumer carpet in a dry state to a size between 2″×2″ to 12″×12″ defining a gross size reduced carpet, the shredder located within the air controlled room to capture the airborne particulates emitted from gross size reduced carpet processed through the shredder;an air exhaust of the air controlled room in fluid communication with a water based pulper to capture the particulates from the shredder and air controlled room and transfer the particulates to the water based pulper;the water based pulper filled with water which receives the gross size reduced carpet and the captured particulates to create a carpet slurry and further break down the gross sized reduced carpet into mixed fibers of the nylon fibers and polypropylene fibers to enable removal of calcium carbonate/SBR latex nodules defining ash to form a slurry of the mixed fibers and the ash;a water based refiner in fluid communication with the water based pulper to cut the mixed fibers in the slurry outputted from the pulper to a length sufficiently short to allow for separation of the mixed fibers in a multistage centrifuge;the multi-stage centrifuge receiving the sufficiently short carpet fiber slurry from the water based refiner;wherein after the gross size reduced carpet and before any further size reduction of the gross size reduced carpet, the captured particulates enter the pulper and the mixed fiber and the particulates remain wet until at least after the calcium carbonate is removed for recycling prior to the centrifuge and the mixed fiber are separated through the multi-stage centrifuge. 2. The plant of claim 1 wherein the nylon fibers and the polypropylene fibers remain in a slurry of less than 6% solids after introducing the gross size reduced carpet and the captured particulates into the water based pulper and before being outputted by the centrifuge. 3. The plant of claim 1 further comprising a water storage tank and wherein the water storage tank is positioned at a higher elevation compared to the pulper so that water from the water storage tank is introduced into the pulper by gravity feed. 4. The plant of claim 3 wherein water from the storage tank is introduced into the pulper so that the slurry of gross size reduced carpet and ash particles has about 6% solid to water ratio. 5. The plant of claim 1 further comprising a first washer and de-water unit wherein the carpet slurry is processed through the first washer and de-water unit after being processed through the wet pulper to remove the calcium carbonate/SBR nodule in order to separate out the nylon and polypropylene fibers from the calcium carbonate and water and other solids. 6. The plant of claim 5 further comprising a water treatment area wherein the calcium carbonate and water from the first washer and de-water unit are transferred to the water treatment area to remove the water from the calcium carbonate so that the calcium carbonate is greater than 30% calcium carbonate and collected for recycling and the water is cleaned and returned to a water storage tank which feeds water into the pulper. 7. The plant of claim 5 further comprising a refiner and wherein the nylon fibers and polypropylene fibers are cut to a short length in the water-based refiner so that the nylon fibers and polypropylene fibers do not form a bird's nest configuration and that the fibers cut in water do not heat up and cause undue changes to the chemical and physical make-up of the fibers. 8. The plant of claim 7 wherein the nylon fibers and polypropylene fibers are cut to about 5 mm long. 9. The plant of claim 1 further comprising a second washer and de-water unit in fluid communication with the refiner which receives the short length nylon and polypropylene fibers and agitates the nylon and polypropylene fibers to rub off and clean the residue on an exterior surface of the nylon and polypropylene fibers and further separates the remaining calcium carbonate and water from the nylon and polypropylene fibers, the separated calcium carbonate and water are transferred to a water treatment area to remove the water from the calcium carbonate so that the calcium carbonate is greater than 30% calcium carbonate for collection and recycling and the water is returned to a water storage tank which feeds water into the water based pulper. 10. The plant of claim 9 further comprising a centrifuge feed tank which receives the nylon and polypropylene fibers from the second washer and de-water unit and receives water to bring the solids percentage to about 2% solids. 11. The plant of claim 10 wherein the nylon and polypropylene fibers at a 2% solids with water are introduced into the centrifuge to separate the nylon fibers from the polypropylene fibers. 12. The plant of claim 11 further comprising a polypropylene dewater unit that receives the polypropylene fibers from the centrifuge to bring a moisture content of the polypropylene fibers down below 30% and a polypropylene fiber dryer to bring the moisture content of the polypropylene fibers down to about 3% water. 13. The plant of claim 10 further comprising a nylon fiber dryer that receives the nylon fibers from the centrifuge to bring the moisture content of the nylon fibers down to about 5% water. 14. The plant of claim 1 wherein the multi stage centrifuge is a two stage centrifuge. 15. The plant of claim 1 wherein a purity of the fibers exiting the multi-stage centrifuge is 90 to 99.5%. 16. The plant of claim 1 further comprising: a pulper wash and dewater unit to wash and remove a majority of calcium carbonate and other ash components from a pulper carpet slurry outputted from the water based pulper;a water based refiner in fluid communication with the pulper wash and dewater unit to cut fibers outputted from the pulper wash and dewater unit to a length sufficiently short to allow for fiber separation in the multi stage centrifuge;a refiner wash unit in fluid communication with the water based refiner to remove any remaining ash. 17. A process of recycling carpet to separate nylon fibers, polypropylene fibers and calcium carbonate from a carpet, the process comprising the steps of: receiving the carpet in an air controlled room;introducing the carpet into a shredder which is located in the air controlled room to produce gross size reduced carpet having a size between 2″×2″ and 12″×12″ in a dry state;trapping airborne particulates emitted from the shredder within the air controlled room;transferring the trapped particulates from the air controlled room to a wet pulper which is located outside of the air controlled room;transferring the gross size reduced carpet and the airborne particulates outputted from the shredder into the wet pulper;maintaining the airborne particulates and the gross size reduced carpet in a slurried wet state until at least after the calcium carbonate contained in the carpet is separated from the nylon and polypropelene fibers and the nylon and the polypropelene carpet fibers are separated by being processed through a centrifuge. 18. The process of claim 17 further comprising the step of introducing water into the pulper by gravity to bring the solid to water ratio of the carpet slurry down to about 6% rapidly. 19. The process of claim 17 further comprising the steps of: cutting the mixed nylon and polypropylene fibers in the carpet slurry to a sufficiently short length so that the nylon and polypropylene fibers do not form a bird's nest or are not heated up to prevent changes to the chemical and physical make-up of the fibers and are prepared for feed into the centrifugewashing the mixed nylon fibers and polypropylene fibers to remove residue on exterior surfaces of the nylon and polypropylene fibers and separate calcium carbonate from the nylon and polypropylene fibers for recovery and recycling. 20. The process of claim 19 further comprising the step of introducing the slurry of cut and washed short length nylon and polypropylene fibers into the centrifuge to separate the nylon fibers and the polypropylene fibers.

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