High Efficiency PET Washing Recycling Line 500-6000kg/h
What is plastic PET?
PET is among those plastics which are an important part of your everyday life. It is an important commercial polymer having application ranging from packaging, fabrics, films to molded parts for automotive, electronics and many more. You can find this famous clear plastic around you as water bottle or soda bottle container. Explore more about polyethylene terephathalate (PET) and find out what makes it a suitable choice in several applications. Learn about its key properties, how its blends are made with other thermoplastics and thermosets, processing conditions and ofcourse, benefits that make PET as No. 1 recyclable polymer worldwide.
How to recycle waste plastic PET bottles?
Regulus Machinery company provides PET Bottle Washing Line, which is specifically used for recycling, crushing and washing waste PET bottles and other PET plastic bottles.
Our Regulus company has a long experience in the field of PET recycling, we offer state-of-the-art recycling technologies, with turn-key installations having the widest range and flexibility in production capacity (from 500 to over 6.000 Kg/h outputs).
|
Capacity (kg/h) |
Power Installed (kw) |
Required Area (m2) |
Manpower |
Steam Volume (kg/h) |
Water Supply (m3/h) |
|
500 |
220 |
400 |
8 |
350 |
1 |
|
1000 |
500 |
750 |
10 |
500 |
3 |
|
2000 |
700 |
1000 |
12 |
800 |
5 |
|
3000 |
900 |
1500 |
12 |
1000 |
6 |
|
4500 |
1000 |
2200 |
16 |
1300 |
8 |
|
6000 |
1200 |
2500 |
16 |
1800 |
10 |
Our Regulus company can provide our customers with proper technical solutions and state-of-the art recycling technologies. Delivering a response tailored to the frequently changing needs of its customers and of the market.
▲ CE certification available.
▲ Larger, more powerful models available based on your request.
What equipment does the PET bottle washing line include?
Main equipment of PET Washing and Recycling Line:
Bales opener/bale breaker:
The bale breaker is driven by motors with slow rotation speeds. The shafts are provided with paddles that break the bales and allow the bottles to fall without breaking.
Dry separation/ Trommel:
This machine allows the removal of many of the solid contaminants (sand, stones, etc.), and represents the first dry cleaning step of the process.
It is an optional piece of equipment, the trommel is a slowing rotating tunnel lined with small holes. The holes are slightly smaller than the PET bottles, so small pieces of contamination(such as glass, metals, sand, stones, etc.) can fall through while the PET bottles move onto the next machine
Label remover/ Delabeler:
REGULUS has designed and developed a system that can easily open the sleeve labels without breaking the bottles and saving most of the bottles necks.
The bottle material is input from the feeding port by the conveyor belt. When the blade welded on the main shaft has a certain included angle and spiral line with the center line of the main shaft, the bottle material will be transported to the discharge end, and the claw on the blade will peel off the label
Plastic granulator/wet grinding:
Through the granulator, PET bottles are cut into smaller pieces to achieve the required size distribution for the washing sections that follow. Normally, crushing flakes size between 10-15mm.
At the same time, with water constantly spraying into the cutting chamber, a first washing process is performed in this section, eliminating the worst contaminants and preventing them from entering the downstream washing steps.
Washer tank/ Sink and float separation:
The target of this section is to remove any polyolefins (polypropylene and polyethylene labels and closures) and other floating material and to conduct a secondary washing of the flakes. The heavier PET material will sink to the bottom of the flotation tank, from where it is removed.
A screw conveyor at the bottom of the sink float separation tank moves the PET plastic to the next piece of equipment.
Dryer
Centrifugal dewatering machine:
Initial mechanical drying through a centrifuge allows the removal of water deriving from the final rinsing process.
Thermal dryer:
The PET flakes are vacuumed out of the dewatering machine into thermal dryer, where it travels down a series of stainless steel tubes mixed with hot air. So the thermal dryer properly treats the flakes with time and temperature to remove surface moisture.
Washer tank/ Sink and float separation:
The target of this section is to remove any polyolefins (polypropylene and polyethylene labels and closures) and other floating material and to conduct a secondary washing of the flakes. The heavier PET material will sink to the bottom of the flotation tank, from where it is removed.
A screw conveyor at the bottom of the sink float separation tank moves the PET plastic to the next piece of equipment.
Fines separation/Dust remover:
It is an elutriation system, which is used to separate remaining labels, having dimensions close to those of the rPET flakes size, as well as PVC, PET film, dust and fines.
Product silo:
A stotage tank for the clean and dry PET flakes.
PET flakes pelletizing machine:
For the most part, PET flakes are used to produce using product directly.
There are also some customers requiring plastic pelletizing machines. For more information see our plastic pelletizing line.
Video of PET bottles washing line:
After recycling, what will the plastic PET used for?
PET Flakes resulting from any REGULUS PET bottle recycling line are of the highest quality in the market, making them perfectly suitable for many of the most important applications, such as:
PET flakes for Bottle to Bottle – B to B quality
(suitable to be extruded at food grade quality)
PET flakes for Thermoforms
(suitable to be extruded at food grade quality)
PET flakes for Film or Sheets
PET flakes for Fibers
PET flakes for Strapping
