Eddy-Current Separators

hamos WSS Eddy-Current separators separate valuable non-ferrous metals such as aluminium, copper and similar from non-metallic recycling products and recover thus a clean non-ferrous metal concentrate.

Eddy-Current separators are ideal for the separation of larger metal parts and complete therefore magnets and the hamos KWS electrostatic separation devices for small particles in an ideal way.

You recycle:

• Electrical and electronic scrap
• Domestic electrical units
• Wastes of building debris
• Old cars
• Cable scrap
• Electrical lamps
• Biologic waste / compost
• Cinder from incineration plants
• Post-consumer plastic household waste ("DSD")
• Other non-ferrous metals

...and want to recover valuable non-ferrous metals such as aluminium, copper etc. as a clean metal concentrate?

With the hamos WSS Eddy-Current separators most of the coarse non-ferrous metals can be separated at smallest expenditures!

hamos WSS Eddy-Current separators enable:

• The recuperation of a non-ferrous metal concentrate
• The production of an iron fraction
• The demetallisation of the input materials
• The increase of the revenues by metallic raw materials of high-quality

Operating principle:

The metal/non-metal mixture to be separated is given into the hamos WSS separation unit and is conveyed to the high frequency magnetic field. This magnetic field results from a fast rotating drum magnet, which induces an electrical eddy-current in the non-ferrous particles. The eddy current is proportional to the conductivity of the material.

Due to the eddy-current, the metal grains are shot out in conveyor direction. The non-conductive fraction is not affected by the magnetic field and falls off from the belt.

Your advantages:

• Dry separation process
• Best for granular non-ferrous materials > 5 mm
• Simplest operation
• Low energy costs
• No additional resources
• Hundredfold proven technology
• Very economical solution
• Fully automatic continuous process
• Very high degrees of separation and product purities attainable

The standard version:

All non-ferrous metal separators hamos WSS are equipped as follows:

• Infinitely variable adjustment of all function parameters
• Stable steel framework for the accommodation of all separator components
• Separate electronics cabinet with monitoring of all important parameters
• Access to the magnet wheel adjustment via large doors
• Large material function funnel for the filling of the vibration feeder
• Variable partition plate for the allocation of the non-metallic parts and the non-ferrous metal
• Discharge of the ferrous fraction via chute
• Cover of the separation area with large hood

Optionally, we can offer also complete material handling systems.

The models:

We supply non-ferrous metal separators hamos WSS with different useable belt widths from 400 mm to 1500 mm.

The throughput amount per 1000 mm width can reach more than 20,000 kg/h, depending on the specific weight and bulk density of the material.