Method for separating and recovering concentrated copper and other metal from processed recycled materials

摘要

Cost-effective, efficient methods for recovering materials from a waste stream. A method for processing recycled materials includes the steps of: receiving a copper wire concentrate comprising one or more masses of tangled copper wire; processing the copper wire concentrate to break up the one or more masses of tangled copper wire; separating the copper wire into a first light fraction and a first heavy fraction using an air separator; reducing the size of the material in the first light fraction; and employing a density separator to separate the size reduced first light fraction into a second light fraction and a second heavy fraction.