End-of-life vehicles processing, towards a thermal treatment of auto shredder residue
Thomas Baranger, CHEN Ming, WANG Lu
(School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200240, China)

Abstract： All over the world, the management of Endoflife Vehicles (ELV) and Automobile Shredder Residue (ASR) is an increasing issue for the car industry. The setting up of several environmental directives, among others the notion of extended producer responsibility, encourage car manufacturers to find alternatives solutions to waste disposal. For 2017, China aims for the recyclability and energy recovery of 95% of total weight of used cars, and in order to reach this rate, the development of some ASR thermal processes could be envisaged. With this research, an overview of ELV management was given and the different solutions about ASR thermal treatment were presented. It is showed that in spite of its big heterogeneity, the high heating value of ASR makes pyrolysis and gasification very interesting, compared to incineration or disposal of in landfills.
Key words： endoflife vehicles; automobile shredder residue; recycling; thermal treatment; gasification; pyrolysis