Vehicles Recycling

Subject name Vehicles Recycling
Type of subject               Specialization
Summary ECTS 2
Form of course 30h lecture
Lecturer                           Prof. Jerzy Osiński, Ph.D., D.Sc.; Piotr Żach, Ph.D.
A brief outline:
Lecture
  • Specific problems in the construction of electric and hybrid cars increase the need for recycling, in particular electric motors and batteries.
  • Current problems of the system of recycling cars in Poland, determinants of technical, legal and economic.
  • Car recycling systems in other countries: Japan (recycling metal hydride batteries and lithium-ion batteries), USA, EU.
  • Processing of materials used in the construction of cars: steel and iron alloys, metals, plastics and composites, rubber, glass, liquids.
  • Removal of the vehicle and the selection of waste materials, the possibility of recycling various kinds of materials used in vehicle construction, in particular plastics and composites.
  • Materials with a higher susceptibility to recycling - as an example TSOP - material susceptible to recycling TOYOTA.
  • Prorecycling construction vehicles, to facilitate disassembly and selection.