TY  - JOUR
T1  - Optimization of a Low-Cost Shredder for Handling of PCB Wastes in a Community Scale
AU - Dhelika, Radon AU - Rio Adriansyah, Ahmad AU - Munir, Sirojul AU - Meino Soedira1, Daniel AU - Ardi, Romadhani AU - Harjanto, Sri 
JO  - Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences
VL  - 15
IS  - 18
SP  - 3345
EP  - 3349
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-949x
DO  - jeasci.2020.3345.3349
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2020.3345.3349
KW  - Shredding
KW  -waste
KW  -e-waste
KW  -PCB
KW  -evaluated
AB  - Waste banks are well-known
community-initiated activities in Indonesia for collecting
inorganic waste in neighbourhood areas, in an aim to
reduce the volume of waste which goes to the landfill.
The collected waste is then sold to industries which resell
or reprocess the waste. It has been understood that the
sustainability of waste banks depends a lot on the selling
price of the waste. Especially for plastic waste, a shredded
plastic waste could increase the selling price by almost
two times. In this research, design and development of a
low-cost shredder for plastic waste is carried out. The
shredder with a capacity of +/-30 kg h<sup>&#150;1</sup> is installed and
operated to aid a neighbourhood-level waste bank in
Depok. The main shredding component consists of three
rotating blades and two fixed blades. With the aid of a
screen, the shredder is expected to shred plastic wastes to
small pieces of 15 mm in dimension. A 6.5 hp gasoline
engine with a transmission pulley are used as the power
source. After the development, the performance is
evaluated.
ER  -