Digital technologies hold enormous potential for improving the performance of future-
generation sorting and processing plants; however, this potential remains largely untapped …

Sensor-based sorting describes a family of systems that enable the removal of individual
objects from a material stream. The technology is widely used in various industries such as …

Sensor-based material flow characterization (SBMC) promises to improve the performance
of future-generation sorting plants by enabling new applications like automatic quality …

Sorting plants are crucial for effective recycling, but their optimization can be challenging
due to the heterogeneity of waste streams. We introduce a novel approach to holistically …

Today's post-consumer plastic recycling is limited by labor-intensive manual quality control
(MQC) procedures, resulting in largely unknown pre-concentrate purities. Sensor-based …

To achieve the goals of the circular economy, significant improvements in non-hazardous
solid waste processing/treatment must be made. Large deficits in the digitalization of …

Sensor-based material flow monitoring allows for continuously high output qualities, through
quality management and process control. The implementation in the waste management …

Experiments with sensor-based sorting (SBS) machinery provide insight into the effect of
throughput rate and input composition on the sorting performance. For this purpose, material …

Urban mining has emerged as a concept that goes beyond conventional recycling, as it aims
to tackle both the challenges of solid waste generation and management, as well as the …

Improving the sortability of plastic packaging film waste (PPFW) is crucial for increasing the
recycling rate in Austria as they account for 150,000 t of the annually produced 300,000 t of …