Professor in Coimbatore innovates new aluminium scrap recycling method for small ingots plants

According to a report, a city college professor named Bhagyanathan in Coimbatore has found a method to recycle aluminium scrap which will help small plants to produce graded quality aluminium ingots with enhanced mechanical and metallurgical properties.

Small plants use electric induction furnaces, LPG furnace or coal furnace. According to the professor, adopting this newly invented method will help small plants to produce high-quality ingots with existing infrastructure.

Presently, ingots are mostly produced by large plants and some by some other firms that produce aluminium products and like to use self-produced ingots.

Besides quality, this method will also reduce the production cost, said Bhagyanathan. He further apprised that two firms already came forward to adopt the technology.

Researchers from CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Trivandrum, were also involved in this project, along with Bhagyanathan. For the project, a centre for aluminium recycling was set up at the college at a cost of INE 1.18crore.