Curitiba starts recycling of refrigerators
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São Paulo - The program for the exchange of old refrigerators in pregnancy in the federal government for almost a year, to ensure extra impetus to a business that is taking its first steps in Curitiba. The company paulista Essences Environmental Solutions imported from Germany to "reverse manufacturing" of refrigerators - recycling technology that captures the harmful chloro-fluoride gas (CFC) - and either put it on the market on a commercial scale in the next two months . The first tests are being made in the industrial city of Curitiba (CIC), where the essence is a unit for treatment of industrial waste. The goal is to recycle 300 thousand refrigerators still in 2009.
The news was announced in Sao Paulo during Ecogerma 2009, fair, sustainable technologies promoted by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Brazil-Germany. The event brought together 150 exhibitors, began on Thursday and ends today. "The equipment arrived recently from Germany, and at work in the pilot project in Curitiba, 'tropicalizando' the technology and training our staff," says Roberto Lopes, chief superintendent of the essence. Joint venture formed by the firm Camargo Corrêa and engineering company solvi, the company employs 700 people - 70 in Atlanta - and treats about 10 tons of waste per day, in six Brazilian states. Began to study the reverse manufacturing in 2007, when creating a division specifically for this area.
Lopes says that conventional techniques for recycling recovers only 60% of the gas contained in old CFC refrigerators. "They focus only on the compressor, which has 300 grams of gas, but ignore the polyurethane foam, which has 800 grams of CFCs. Our technology, in which the refrigerator is crushed and its materials, separated by the machine, allowing use 99.5% of the CFC, which is then converted into liquid and incinerated in a controlled environment. "According to the executive in the treatment of a single refrigerator, this difference prevents pollution equivalent to a vehicle that Rodou 3.5 thousand kilometers. "The CFC not only hits the ozone layer, it is causing the greenhouse effect. Each ton of CFCs into the atmosphere equivalent to ten thousand tons of carbon dioxide. "
The essence invested 12 million euros in the first equipment and the licensing of technology, which belongs to the German FES, and will allocate another 13 million to the project over the next four years. When run on a commercial scale, the manufacturing will be reversed by mobile units carried by four trucks that will carry the number of machines to the local collection of old refrigerators. According to Lopes, a "package" of five thousand refrigerators now enable each shift.
Source: Gazeta do Povo
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