GINOP-2.2.1-15-2016-00024
IMPLEMENTATION OF A RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME FOR THE PRE-TREATMENT, DISMANTLING, DISMANTLING AND RECYCLING OF COMMERCIAL VEHICLES IN THE OPTISOL CONSORTIUM
Name of (main) beneficiary: Alcufer Ipari Kereskedelmi és Szolgáltató Korlátolt Felelősségű Társaság
Consortium partner:
- University of Miskolc
- Neumann János University
- Bay Zoltán Applied Research Nonprofit Ltd.
- Dél-Konstrukt Zrt.
Head of profession: Dr. Pál Lukács
Aid amount (HUF): 905.120.024,- Ft
Total cost of the project1.259.347.467,- Ft
Grant awarded to Bay Zoltán Nonprofit Kft. : HUF 49 485 790 (100% aid intensity)
The actual start date of the project: 2017.01.01.
The actual completion date of the project: 2020.10.13.
Aid intensity (%): 71,87
Project summary
The project included the construction of an environmentally sound infrastructure to allow the controlled removal of plant and auxiliary materials from the demolition process and to prevent their release into the environment (surface and underground), with concrete pads, an oil separator and two 1,000 sqm halls. In one of the halls, a dry-laying machine was installed to allow the professional removal of plant and auxiliary materials and a crane was installed to allow the safe handling of materials above ground level. The hall was used for the planned dismantling of 10 of the most typical vehicles from the Hungarian commercial vehicle fleet. The different types of materials and components were precisely identified and separated, and further storage was carried out in a container best suited to the properties of the materials and, if necessary, to the storage of hazardous waste. For each precisely defined type of material, the best material and energy recycling method was determined in terms of sustainability and economy, and the materials from the dismantled vehicles were transferred to authorised recyclers.
Currently, some problematic construction materials are often “managed” in an environmentally polluting way and even hidden from the authorities, which in most cases means some form of illegal (public, forest, underground) disposal. Typical examples include fuels, plastic and rubber components, glass components.
The present project has also carried out research on these problematic fractions in order to find suitable material or energy recovery options.
The built and implemented technological site in Szolnok (through the determined vision of Dél-Konstrukt Zrt., the consortium leader of the tender, and Alcufer Kft., the largest waste treatment company in the country) will serve as the basis for an industrial enterprise, which, thanks to the technical improvements built on it, will aim to recycle 100% of state-owned and privately-owned commercial vehicles in the future. For certain material streams (PCBs of electrical and electronic products, single and mixed fractions of plastic and rubber products and vehicle glazing), it will be the starting point for further upgrading, in addition to the increasing daily industrial commercial vehicle processing activities.
Currently, there are millions of commercial vehicles with unique identifiers (trucks, buses, tractors and their trailers, agricultural and forestry machinery) in circulation in the country, tens of thousands of which are withdrawn from the market every year, but their life cycle after end-of-life (and withdrawal) is unknown to the authorities. The EU (End of Life Vehicle Directive 53/2000/EC) and harmonised Hungarian implementing regulations for passenger cars and light commercial vehicles (up to 3.5 t) lay down the basic principles for collection, dismantling, pre-treatment and recycling, which after pre-treatment is carried out in the essentially self-supporting body-in-white rotary hammer shredders, so-called “end-of-life shredders”. shredder plants and provides for the further use of the separated fractions of material coming out of it. However, this is not the case for commercial vehicles, which are essentially much stronger, have a higher load capacity and are built almost exclusively on ladder frames, with a significantly different material composition and consequent recycling problems.
So, while such a complex technological instruction will solve the problems in Hungary and create a marketable solution (the development results will continue to operate as a business activity generating economic results), it will also create a marketable product in other EU countries, but especially in the emerging Asian region and in Latin America.
The tens of thousands of commercial vehicles withdrawn from the market each year represent on average 5.5-6 tonnes of structural material, roughly 80-85% of which is metal content, which, based on the withdrawal of 20 000 such vehicles per year, implies the generation of 10-15%, or 18-20 000 tonnes of problematic material fractions (plastic, rubber, glass, textiles). Today, these are rarely, if at all, recovered and leave the system in an uncontrolled manner, posing a risk to the environment and road safety, which means, on the one hand, a serious loss of structural material flow, thus posing a sustainability problem for the sustainability of commercial vehicle production, and, on the other hand, an uncontrolled system which leads to environmental and accident safety problems, not to mention the grey and black economy that is built on it and the loss of tax and contribution revenue for the State.
The project was supported by the Hungarian State and co-financed by the European Union.
Results of the project final press conference: (download here)
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