Design and analysis of shredder machine for e - Waste recycling using CATIA

Abstract

In the current scenario wherein technical gadgets are ruling everywhere from personal mobile phones to official devices technological usage of the electronic and electrical gadgets is increasing day by day and the very big challenge behind it is the disposal and recycling to reduce the effect of toxic materials used in these equipment's. Most of the countries have been disposing in huge contents of e-waste into dumping yards on abandoned islands disturbing the eco-system. This has been taken as a serious environmental issue all across the world. Even though, lots of disposal methods are in existence for safe disposal, there had been a list of limitations too. The usage of poisonous metals in micron sizes, chemicals in batteries etc. This project, is an attempt to model a crushing machine to dismantle and crush the small electronic gadgets like laptop, mobile phones and i-pads after its life time. The design of the new shredder machine with effective blade profile is to be modeled to crush the used equipment for a size that can be recycled. This project is thus to design a suitable shredder and an analysis using CATIA is expected to provide an optimum solution for the e-waste recycling problem, a need of the hour.