Impact reactor (1) for comminuting composite materials, comprising a cylindrical casing (2), in which a rotor (4) provided with impact elements (5) is arranged, wherein the impact reactor (1) is closed on the end face remote from the rotor (4) by means of a cover (7), wherein an suction opening (8) is assigned to the cover (7), wherein a classifying device (9) is assigned to the suction opening (8), and method of processing accumulator batteries, mineral wool and raw material.

The invention relates to a bale breaker (1) for a bale (2) of hay, straw, litter and/or fodder, comprising support means (3) for the bale (2) and breaker means (4) adapted to detach hay, straw, litter and/or fodder from a bale (2) provided on the support means (3) and to transport it to discharge means (5) arranged downstream of the breaker means (4), wherein feed means (6) for feeding a bale (2) provided on the support means (3) in a feed direction (Z) toward the disintegrating means (4) are associated with the support means (3), and wherein feed drive means (7) for driving the feed means (6) and disintegrating drive means (8) for driving the disintegrating means (4) are further provided, wherein control devices (9) are associated with the feed drive devices (7) and/or the opening drive devices (8) and/or the discharge devices (5), which are designed to control the feed drive devices (7) and/or the opening drive devices (8) and/or the discharge devices (5) in such a way that a malfunction or disturbance, such as in particular a jam or a blockage by the bale (2), in particular at the opening devices (4) and/or the discharge devices (5), is avoided or eliminated. Furthermore, the invention relates to a bale unraveling method in which a bale (2) of hay, straw, litter and/or fodder is transported on support devices (3) by means of their feed devices (6) driven by feed drive devices (7) to unraveling devices (4) driven by unraveling drive devices (8), which unravel hay, straw, litter and/or fodder from the bale (2) and transport it to output devices (5), wherein the feed drive devices (7) and/or the unraveling drive devices (8) and/or the dispensing devices (5) are controlled by means of control devices (9) in such a way that a malfunction or disturbance, such as in particular a jam or a blockage by the bale (2), in particular at the unraveling devices (4) and/or the dispensing devices (5), is avoided or eliminated.

Embodiments relate to one or more techniques that may be employed alone or in combination, in the refurbishment or recycling of used solar modules. In certain approaches, a (heated) wire may be used to cut through one or more layers (e.g., front encapsulant, back encapsulant, both front and back encapsulant, backsheet) of a solar module that is being recycled or refurbished. Some approaches may employ testing of a used solar module, alone or in combination with information (e.g., as part of a received package) regarding parameters of a used solar module such as panel size, width, length, height, thickness of glass, or others. According to specific embodiments, used solar modules may be subjected to various cleaning processes at one or more points during refurbishment/recycling.

Embodiments relate to one or more techniques that may be employed alone or in combination, in the refurbishment or recycling of used solar modules. In certain approaches, a (heated) wire may be used to cut through one or more layers (e.g., front encapsulant, back encapsulant, both front and back encapsulant, backsheet) of a solar module that is being recycled or refurbished. Some approaches may employ testing of a used solar module, alone or in combination with information (e.g., as part of a received package) regarding parameters of a used solar module such as panel size, width, length, height, thickness of glass, or others. According to specific embodiments, used solar modules may be subjected to various cleaning processes at one or more points during refurbishment/recycling.

A system for refining mixed material streams, includes a receptacle for receiving an input stream; a mill grinding the input stream to reduce particle size and output a milled stream; a first filter having first filtration holes which filter the milled stream to remove a first portion having particle sizes larger than the first filtration holes and to output as a sifted stream a second portion having particle sizes smaller than the first filtration holes; a second filter having second filtration holes which are smaller than the first filtration holes, the second filtration holes filtering the sifted stream to output a filtered stream; and a density separator receiving the filtered stream and receiving a liquid. The filtered stream combined with the liquid forms a mixture, and the density separator separates the mixture into at least a first output and a second output having a greater density than the first output.

A device for preparing adipose tissue for transplantation from lobular fat extracted, for instance by liposuction, said fat consisting of a fluid component comprising an oily component, a blood component and/or sterile solutions and a solid component comprising cell fragments, cells and one or more cell macroagglomerates of heterogeneous size, comprising at least one washing and separating container (1) having a washing chamber (101) for washing the liposuctioned material, which container (1) has an inlet (102) and an outlet (103) for the liposuctioned material to enter the washing chamber (101) through the inlet (102) and for at least part of said material, particularly the fluid component, to exit said chamber (101) through the outlet (103), said washing chamber (101) including means for forming an emulsion of fluid components, by mechanical stirring.

A method of preparing adipose tissue for transplantation, from lobular fat extracted, for instance, by liposuction, said fat consisting of a fluid component comprising an oily component, a blood component and/or sterile solutions and of a solid component comprising cell fragments, cells and one or more cell macroagglomerates of heterogeneous size, characterized in that it includes at least one step of washing the cell aggregates carried out at the same time as a step of separating the fluid component, in emulsion form, from the solid component.

Precursors and methods for manufacturing perforated composite parts are disclosed. An exemplary precursor (19) comprises structural fibers (24,28) embedded in a cured matrix material (24,26) and interposed between two removable plies (20). The precursor may also comprise a sacrificial fiber (28) extending through the removable plies (20), the matrix material (24,26) and between the structural fibers (24,28). An exemplary method comprises removing the removable plies (20) from the precursor (19) and removing the sacrificial fiber (28) from the precursor after removing the removable plies to form a through hole in the precursor (19) at a location of the sacrificial fiber (28).

Rasp systems for controlled milling of cortical, cancellous or combinations disclosed. The disclosed rasp system may provide morselized bone with predetermined particle-size distribution for automatic milling apparatus. The rasp systems comprises a rasp for cutting material and a push surface to effect directing and sweep the material over surface of the rasp for controlled milling material disclosed. The bone-cutting tooth having side cutters disclosed. In addition, radial rasp systems with self-generating centrifugal forces for pushing material against the rasp surface for automatic milling apparatus disclosed. Furthermore, embodiments can include a battery-powered autoclaveable milling apparatuses for automatic milling cortical, cancellous or combinations of bone material utilizing said radial rasp systems disclosed.

Devices, methods, and systems are described for memory destruction device (MDD) for a hard disk drive or a solid state drive. In an embodiment, the MMD includes only mechanical components. In one embodiment, the MMD may destroy one or more HDDs or SSDs at a time.