The hot, shredded, decoated aluminium is fed into one of the two 90-tonne sidewell furnaces, which

contain submerged stirrers that create a vortex in the pool of molten aluminium and drag the shreds
quickly down into the melt. This process achieves rapid melting rates and high yields.

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/245159293_Study_on_decoating_used_beverage_cans_with_
thick_sulfuric_acid_for_recycle
ABSTRACT More than 1800 hundreds of millions of beverage cans are manufactured yearly over the world, which
will pollute the globe environment without recycle. The recycle and regeneration estates of used beverage cans are
highly profitable enterprises. Vacuum technologies are mature on a large scale today, and therefore, the re-melting
process of used beverage cans (UBCs) does not have to use flux. Furthermore, the coating on UBCs becomes the
key factor causing poor product quality. The present paper concerns removing the coating of UBCs and compares two
different kinds of methods to remove the coating: a thermal method and a chemical reagent method. A new kind of
reagent, thick sulfuric acid, was employed in the chemical reagent de-coating process. The de-coating ratio in the
thermal method reached 93% at most, but the de-coating ratio reached 100% within 30min in the chemical reagent
method by using thick sulfuric acid. Recycling the used thick sulfuric acid was also supplied. A titanium yellow product
can be simultaneously obtained. The experiments show that the chemical reagent method is more available than the
thermal method, which will enhance the purity of the regeneration product enormously.

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