Assessing the efficiency of Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) based sorting of post-consumer aluminium scrap

The aluminium Twitch fraction of a Belgian recycling facility could be further sorted by implementing Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS). To achieve this goal, the presented research identifies commercially interesting output fractions and investigates machine learning methods to classify t...

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Autores: Van den Eynde, Simon, Diaz-Romero, Dillam, Engelen, Bart, Zaplana Agut, Isiah|||0000-0002-0862-3240, Peeters, Jef R.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/378786
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/378786
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2022.02.046
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Fluorescence microscopy
Aluminum -- Recycling
Aluminium
Post-consumer scrap
Sorting
Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
Classification
Microscòpia de fluorescència
Alumini -- Reciclatge
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria mecànica::Impacte ambiental
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Sumario:The aluminium Twitch fraction of a Belgian recycling facility could be further sorted by implementing Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS). To achieve this goal, the presented research identifies commercially interesting output fractions and investigates machine learning methods to classify the post-consumer aluminium scrap samples based on the spectral data collected by the LIBS sensor for 834 aluminium scrap pieces. The classification performance is assessed with X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) reference measurements of the investigated aluminium samples, and expressed in terms of accuracy, precision, recall, and f1 score. Finally, the influence of misclassifications on the composition of the desired output fractions is evaluated.