Problem Statement

Waste Stream Reuse & Recycling

Spring 2015, EDSGN 100 Project

ArcelorMittal has requested a method

of reduction of their waste stream at its
Steelton Plant by designing an opportunity to

Mohammed Al-Aufi, Renato Buanafina,

Fernando Leon,Scott Tustin,
Vikas Vepachedu
Section 003 - Dr. Solnosky

Sustainability

reuse and/or recycle material such that the

landfill waste and disposal costs decrease for one
or more of the largest sources of refuse: pallets
from incoming material delivery, empty

Final Concept

drums or totes received from delivery

of fluids, and waste refractory bricks.

Background Info.

consists of three fundamental components,

which are efficiency, environment, and reusing
materials.
Efficiency-the capability to minimize the
portion of time, effort and money required to
convert a resource to a useful product

Environment-all of the surroundings that the

process of production is happening in needs
to be support growth and be protected

Reusing materials is the ability to utilize the

waste resulted by the process of production

Steel making process

Impact:

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2.
3.

The 50 gallon Steel drums provide an obvious

opportunity to take advantage of their own raw
materials. It reducing the quantity currently
being stored would allow for less resources
needing to be allocated for their storage such
as electricity and land.

fewer resources will be needed to be allocated for their storage such as electricity and land.
Also, money will be made from the new cleaned barrels.
They can also use the collected anti-freeze for the future so that the company will not need to purchase as much in the
future, reducing waste.

Implementation:
1- build a chamber for the device near by the furnace to heat the salted water. By placing the device by the furnace, less energy will be
needed to heat the water as the environment will already be very warm.
2- setup the device in the chamber.
3- Transfer the barrels from the store to the chamber to clean them with the mechanism described earlier using the anti-anti freeze
machine.
4- To setup the machine:
mix any type of salt with water to make a 25 mole(salt)/kg(water) solution.
heat the solution to 115 degrees Celsius (239 F) and keep the temperature constant so that the water doesnt evaporate.
Once the salted water is hot, the machine is ready to do the work.
5- use the cooler to condense the evaporated anti-freeze if needed. The cooler wont be necessarily on all the time because the
atmospheric temperature will be sufficient to condense the anti-freeze.
6- keep the condensed anti-freeze in a clean container so it can be used again.
7- transfer the barrels back to the store.
8- Clean barrels can be reused or converted to a pure product.

Concept Gen.
The Evaporation of the Anti-Freeze met more
criteria. The absorbent would create more waste,
would require individual works, garner less product
back, and as a result less functional compared to
the Evaporation of Anti-Freeze.
The cleaned barrels could be smelted or sold as
crafted barrels will sell for as little as fifty- dollars.

Evaporation System

Greenstuff, an
absorbant