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Need info on Electrostatic separator
« on: April 18, 2018, 02:09:58 AM »
hello ,
I need information in electrostatic separator for separating mixture of shoe material to separate leather from it. I need information on avalibility of such type of separator and its contact detail.
If there is any other way to separate it then do inform me
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Re: Need info on Electrostatic separator
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2018, 01:52:31 PM »
So you need to separate leather from polymer?
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Re: Need info on Electrostatic separator
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2018, 04:10:26 AM »
So you need to separate leather from polymer?

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Re: Need info on Electrostatic separator
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2018, 08:31:50 AM »
I don't think there is a good way to do this chemically. I would generally say to try to find a solvent the polymer dissolves in, like DMSO, that the leather would not, but this would take gallons of solvent to accomplish. Could you separate it mechanically?
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Re: Need info on Electrostatic separator
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2018, 09:18:57 AM »
I don't think there is a good way to do this chemically. I would generally say to try to find a solvent the polymer dissolves in, like DMSO, that the leather would not, but this would take gallons of solvent to accomplish. Could you separate it mechanically?

And furthermore, the solvent would likely damage leather.

Also, have these materials become finely divided, as in pulverized to dust, and you'd like to generate a wide charge to separate them?  I don't know if that's possible.

However, if you have large strips of leather, and large chucks of plastic, and you want magic beams of electrostatics to make them fly into separate piles, then you've left behind all modern science.  And you're not clear that that's not what you want.
Hey, I'm not judging.  I just like to shoot straight.  I'm a man of science.

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