Italian ELV up-to-date situation and development

Salvatore Di Carlo Francesco Bonino

Fiat Group Automobiles Centro Ricerche Fiat

ELV & Car Recycling Environment

IARC Congress, Budapest - 24th March 2011

� Italian ELV Framework Agreement between Public Authority and Industrial Chain: update and development

� Italian quotas results: trend

� Strategy and next steps

� ELV - R&D activities: • Recycling: tyres for asphalt

• Energy recovery: Target Fluff project

� Conclusions

Items

First example in Europe of official Agreement in order to:

•Improve the ELV Management

•Obtain the maximum of efficiency both from the environmental andindustrial point of view

Industrial chainPublic Authorities:Ministry of the Environment

Ministry of the Economical Development

Italian ELV Framework Agreement : update and development

According to IARC09 speech, Italian ELV Framework Agreement is running in order to fulfill all the EU targets

Italian ELV Framework Agreement : update and development

Italian quota results: trend

Trial 2006

Results

Due to repeating

and critics

mistakes in the

format fulfillment

� Empowerment of national network based on increasing quality in dismantler activities;

� Working together with other industrial operators: dealers, dismantlers, crushers, shredders, recyclers and energy recovery operators

Inside the existing ELV chart among European Carmakers, in order to reach the

targets fixed by EU Directive for 2015 the OEM strategy for Italy is focused on:

Strategy and next steps

Aggiungere mappa differenziando

ANFIA da UNRAE

UNRAE

network

FIAT

network

Dealers have a vital role in pursuing the results through:

� Information about ELVs issues as “economical operators”

� Inclusion of dealer associations in all initiatives regarding ELVs

� Characterisation of their role within ELVs issues and pressure in order to drive the ELV flow into the dismantler network

Coordinating actions between National & Importer OEM

Dealer

Final owner

Dismantler

Strategy and next steps: Dealers involvement

Strategy and next steps: Economical Operators involvement

Final owner

POST SHREDDING

ENERGY RECOVERY

LandfillPRE SHREDDING: tyres, bumpers,

glass

Deale

rs1600 Dismantlers 350 Crushers 30 Shredders

Car

Manufacturers

Importers

• 4 Different Dismantler Association, • Market demand for recycled materials• Realization of Energy Recovery plant

Main Critical points:

New Tyre Recycling Decree

Actually the decree pass through the “Consiglio di Stato” and it’s in the way for emission in the “Gazzetta Ufficiale”.

Before the end of April 2011 the Decree should be law.

The main point is the difference in the main responsible actors:

• End of Life Tyres from service market: Tyres Producers

• End of Life Tyres from ELV: Vehicle Producers

The collection and recovery target will be counted separately in favour of both chain.

Strategy and next steps: markets demand

New Tyre Recycling Decree

The main environmental objective is the collection, recycling and recovery of all the end of life tyres produced each year in Italy.

The major Tyres Producers created in Italy a consortium called ECOPNEUS dedicate to the collection and recovery of the end of life tyres.

According to the last public version of the decree, the dismantlers can provide the tyres to the consortium with zero cost.

Conclusion:

This new decree will:

• increase the collection rate of end of life tyres in Italy

• increase the Italian recycling/recovery target of ELV

Strategy and next steps: markets demand

Inside the general strategy carried on with other Car Makers, the ELVs FIAT

strategy for Italy is pointed on these issues:

FIAT Strategy and next steps

� Empowerment of national network: one strong pathway for Fiat & other brands: IVECO, Maserati, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep

� Attention to extra EU Markets in line with ACEA ELV working

group: Turkey, Serbia, Brazil, India, China, Russia

Chrysler

Contracts

in 2009: 55

Actual

network in

2011: 271

contracts

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R&D running activities on End of Life

Vehicles management are mainly focused on:

• Recycling: tyres for asphalt

• Energy recovery: Target Fluff project

ELV - R&D activities

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Goal: to develop market demand for rubber from End of Life Tyres for the use in road pavement

Partner involved: Turin Polytechnic, Turin

Province, Fise Unire, Anfia, Ecopneus, Siteb signed an agreement during 2009

First application - 2010: very important new road

connecting Turin and Reggia of Venaria

Main advantages:

• reduction of noise (inside & outside the vehicle)• reduction of road maintenance

•increase of the use of recycled material from

ELV in industrial applications

ELV - R&D activities

Recycling: tyres for asphalt

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ELV - R&D activities

Recycling: tyres for asphalt

Main results obtained at Venaria:

• reduction of noise inside the vehicle:

an average difference of 4 db between

innovative and traditional asphalts

during Coast Down operation

• reduction of noise outside the vehicle:

an average difference of 2 db between innovative and traditional asphalts

during Coast Down operation

• 30% increase of the realization cost balanced by a reduction of road

maintenance costs

• increase of amount of recycled material from ELV

Interior & exterior microphones

Coast down 55 – 45 km/h, similar

results for Coast down 105 – 95 km/h

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Next steps:

The partners involved in this first application presented during 2010 the LIFE+ EU Project

TyRec4LIFE - Development and Implementation of Innovative and Sustainable

Technologies for the Use of Scrap Tyre Rubber in Road Pavements

Technical project objectives:

• Validation of the use of open graded and controlled texture bituminous mixtures;

• Evaluation of the potential use of reduced-quality or recycled aggregates;

• Development of solutions for the reduction of energy consumption and emissions;

• Implementation of the “dry” technology.

Fiat Research Center main involvement:

• increase the market demands of material from ELV;

• environmental, safety, noise and economical evaluations;

Project Gantt:

April 2011: response from DG-Env about the project result

September 2011: Kich-off of the project

ELV - R&D activities

Recycling: tyres for asphalt

The main goal is to increase in Italy the use of Scrap Tyre

Rubber in Road Pavement

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ELV - R&D activitiesEnergy Recovery: TARGET FLUFF

Objective: setting up of 3 different pilot plants at industrial scale for the car fluff

treatment from ELV, using the pyro-gasification process which :

•Ensures the best performances of energy and environmental efficiency and economical

sustainability

•Gives autonomy to the involved industrial partners relative to the problem of landfilling

•Brings to the achievement of the national target of energy recovery (5% from 2006 and 10%

from 2015) and help the achievement of the re-use and recovery target (85% from 2006 and

95% from 2015)

Partnership TARGET FLUFF Project

• Centro Ricerche Fiat• CRS (CFF Recycling Group)

• Feralpi Group • Centro Rottami & Centro Sviluppo Materiali

Project Gantt

The project is at the end of the second year

The conclusion of the Innovative Project will be foreseen in the first part of 2012

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TARGET FLUFF – Project status / Activities done:

•Physical & chemicals analysis on ASR and fractions

•Technical experiment on different Post Shredding Technologies of ASR

•Technical experiment on laboratory and on industrial scale for different Pyro-

gasification technologies;

•Design and realization of dedicated Post Shredding Technologies in order to sort the

metals and inert materials and to prepare the Solid Recovered Fuel

•Environmental and economical evaluation of different solution vs landfill

ELV - R&D activitiesEnergy Recovery: TARGET FLUFF

ASR light &

heavy

Metals

Post shredding technologies:

induction technologies,

floatation tech, volatization,…

Solid

Recovered

Fuel

Inert materials

Pyro-

gassification

plant with

high energetic

efficiency

Electric

Energy

Thermal

Energy

Realized plant in TARGET FLUFF projectTested Technologies in TARGET FLUFF project

2009 03/20112010

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TARGET FLUFF – Ongoing activities

• Design and realization of energy recovery plants;

• Economical evaluation on industrial scale plants;

• Environmental evaluation of realized different solutions vs landfill

ELV - R&D activitiesEnergy Recovery: TARGET FLUFF

First industrial

installation for a

TARGET FLUFF

partner plant

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Conclusions

The Italian Framework Agreement has allowed to catch up different important

results:

•EU 2008 target achieved in Italy (84% Reuse & Recycling and 87% Reuse &

Recovery)

•Realization of strong ELV networks based on Quality & active Relationships

between the Economical Operators of the chain

The Italian Framework Agreement is the right instrument in order to achieve

the 2015 Targets by means of the R&D ongoing activities on:

•Tyres recycling for asphalt and for other industrial application

•Energy recovery of Solid Recovered Fuel by means of innovative pyro-

gasification technologies characterized by high energetic efficiency and low

environmental impacts

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Thank you for the attention