TY - CHAP

T1 - Recycling of heat resistant magnesium alloys

AU - Fechner, Daniel

AU - Blawert, Carsten

AU - Hort, Norbert

AU - Kainer, Karl Ulrich

N1 - Conference code: 5

PY - 2008

Y1 - 2008

N2 - With the development of new heat resistant magnesium alloys, the automotive industry has introduced several parts to the drive train. The rising number of large magnesium components will result in a higher quantity of automotive post consumer scrap and the changing legislation will force car manufacturers to take magnesium recycling into consideration. So far post consumer scrap has not been used for magnesium alloy production. Quite a reasonable amount of automotive scrap is likely to end up in a mixed light metal shredder fraction. The separation of mixed magnesium scrap according to several alloys is complex. Therefore secondary magnesium alloys made from blended post consumer scrap would be useful. For this work a matrix of potential recycling alloys was prepared by chill casting and high pressure die casting. The materials were investigated for their microstructure, mechanical properties, heat resistance and corrosion properties. The results will be presented in this paper.

AB - With the development of new heat resistant magnesium alloys, the automotive industry has introduced several parts to the drive train. The rising number of large magnesium components will result in a higher quantity of automotive post consumer scrap and the changing legislation will force car manufacturers to take magnesium recycling into consideration. So far post consumer scrap has not been used for magnesium alloy production. Quite a reasonable amount of automotive scrap is likely to end up in a mixed light metal shredder fraction. The separation of mixed magnesium scrap according to several alloys is complex. Therefore secondary magnesium alloys made from blended post consumer scrap would be useful. For this work a matrix of potential recycling alloys was prepared by chill casting and high pressure die casting. The materials were investigated for their microstructure, mechanical properties, heat resistance and corrosion properties. The results will be presented in this paper.

KW - End of life vehicles

KW - Magnesium recycling

KW - Post consumer scrap

KW - Secondary magnesium alloy

KW - Engineering

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M3 - Article in conference proceedings

AN - SCOPUS:62449303656

SN - 9780873397261

SN - 978-1605606200

SP - 821

EP - 828

BT - REWAS 2008

A2 - Mishra, Brajendra

A2 - Ludwig, C.

A2 - Das, Subodh K

PB - John Wiley & Sons Inc.

T2 - 5th Global Symposium on Recycling, Waste Treatment and Clean Technology, REWAS 2008

Y2 - 12 October 2008 through 15 October 2008

ER -