Recycling Factories – Precious Metals Extraction of Catalytic Converters

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00:00 Precious Metals Extraction
Cars intended for scrapping are full of treasures that can be recycled and reused.
In addition to the working parts, the catalytic converter contains precious metals. Platinum, palladium, and rhodium. Catalytic converters range in price from PLN 1,000 to 20,000. The converter's precious metal content sets the price.
For more information on how these valuable natural resources are recycled, visit Unimetal Recycling.

00:59 Unimetal Recycling (UR) – Recycling Factories
In January 2021 UR received 75,000 converters. Every day we gathered 3,500 converters. We have 91 Polish partners and 29 worldwide. We get catalysts in truckloads from these stationary and mobile points.

Metal casing, ceramic core, and protective coating. It has a honeycomb core. In the exhaust fumes, the platinum group metals spread evenly throughout the channels.

01:52 The converters are weighed twice at the factory to ensure accuracy.
Completion of the garbage transfer note. After determining the worth of each item, sum the cost. Catalog, the company's application, has over 9,000 model photos. It also works with collection points and vehicle dismantling facilities. Used catalytic converter costs are tracked and the company grows. The app shows the current catalyst number. Based on current exchange rates and precious metal prices, such as platinum and palladium. An ICP-MS spectrometer in the company's laboratory determines a model's true precious metal content.

03:12 The plant can also receive only the catalytic converter cores.
Next, the catalytic converters. A hydraulic cutter separates their distinct components after unloading. Barrels hold the ceramic monolith. Containers hold casing elements. They will be scrapped and utilized in steelworks.

It is then taken to a ball mill. They mill and grind the monolith. A random sample is taken. It is first tested in the lab for humidity. So it's avg'd A homogenous homogenised material is obtained after grinding. It measures element content with X-ray fluorescence. The proportion of platinum, palladium, and rhodium in the sample is computed.

04:17 The ground ceramics
will be shipped to specialised mills to be reprocessed. 90% will be used to spray catalytic converters, with the remaining 10% going to medical and jewellery.

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