PROVEN PROCESS TO DELIVER TRUE
ELECTRONICS SCRAP RECYCLING AND
HIGH FINANCIAL RETURN
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Executive Summary
AT developed, demonstrated and is commercializing a proprietary process that
completely recycles the materials within mixed electronics scrap in a single plant
while providing a compelling return to plant operators and investors. Extensive
financial modeling is completed based on real-world pilot plant results, capital and
scrap costs and today’s commodity prices for plants processing up to 100 tons per
day. Plant and investor returns are significantly positive from 40 tons per day to
over 100 tons per day, with returns increasing with plant size and volume flow.
Plant configurations can include on site refining of recovered metals and precious
metals or less capital-intensive set ups where the metals are collected and sold for
further processing. For example, for a 100 ton per day plant with metals refining,
the financial summary is:
Capital plus First Year Costs Total $23 MM ($3.4 MM less capital and
$7 MM less annual operating cost w/o on-site metal refining)
E-scrap Purchased Price of $0.12 per lb.
$65 MM/Yr Revenue from Reclaimed Solids Per Plant
$927/ton Annual Operating Costs
Price Factor for Reclaimed Metals 85% of Market Price
$10.4 MM Annual Gross Profit at Today’s Commodity Prices
High IRR/Strongly Positive 10-year Plant NPV
Additional Benefits
 Process mixed electronics scrap in a single plant, at a single site.
 Facilitates simplified scrap flow and audit tracking.
 Significantly less scrap deconstruction than competitive recycling alternatives.
 Reduces labor and capital needed in alternative processes.
 Continuous flow process.
 Scaleable, low energy process.
 Process based upon proven tire recycling plants of partner company.
 Operating electronics scrap recycling pilot plant in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
 Extensive financial, capital, cost and profit modeling available.
 Less than one year to have first plant in operation (preliminary designs, process
flow sheets, and regulatory requirements are available from partner experience).
AT is seeking to license the process technology and technology support to partners
in the electronic scrap industry who will benefit from the significantly increased
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scrap processing volume, simple and scaleable process, and high financial returns of
the AT process.
Process Economics
The most significant revenues generated by any recycling of electronics scrap are
from the recovery of precious metals from the scrap. The AT system fully recovers
not only all the precious metal content within the scrap, but the economic value of
the plastics, other metals, ceramics, and fiberglass, all in a single plant process.
Operation and maintenance of the process requires a minimal labor force. Little or
no segregation is required for the feedstock before processing, thus reducing labor
costs and dramatically increasing the economics of the process over existing
recycling techniques.
An extensive economic model of recycling mixed electronic scrap using the AT
recycling process is available to evaluate the numerous data inflows and results of
the process under a number of scrap flow, commodity price, plant size and other
inputs and constraints. This model is fully available for customer review, analysis
and planning.
The Process
AT’s process combines all components that make up mixed electronics scrap into a
single feedstock, minimizing transportation, labor, and other related segregation
costs. The ability of the process to minimize these costs improves the economics of
recycling these complex mixtures. Each of the material components that make up
the mixed electronic feedstock are separated continually and simply throughout the
automated process. Conversion times are rapid, and the process is close-looped and,
thus, nonpolluting. The process requires significantly lower energy than other
electronics scrap recycling processes. The resultant high value precious metals are
completely recovered.
In addition, all types of plastics and composites, thermosets, as well as
thermoplastics (computers, copiers, printed wiring boards, cell phones, home
electronics, and other electronics assemblies) are converted in high yields to
valuable hydrocarbon products. The resultant hydrocarbon products represent
chemical feedstocks for sale and/or fuel sources. Fillers, fibers, and impurities are
separated from the hydrocarbons for reuse or disposal.
By obtaining value from all the components in the wastestream (hydrocarbons,
fibers, metals, fillers, etc.), the overall recycling process economics are improved
compared to recycling only a portion of the electronics wastestream with chemical,
mechanical or smelter-based processes.
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Process Summary
Separation
Deconstruction
Initial Sorting
Shredding
Aggregating
Shredding
Precious
Precious Metals
Metals
Pd
Cu
Pt
Ag
Au
Carbon,
Glass,
Carbon, fibers
Fibers
and
other
materials
Operating E-cycling Pilot Plant
Plant Pyrolytic/Catalytic
Hydrocarbons
usable for
Reactor
wide variety of applications
Optional Reuse of
Recovered
Output
Hydrocarbons
for
Hydrocarbons
Heating
for Process
Energy
Recovered Hydrocarbons For Sale
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