A method for recovery of moulding sand from a foundry sand mixture, which includes at least one proportion of moulding material fragments or loose moulding material grains, which accumulates when a cast part is demoulded from a casting mould as a result of the destruction of casting cores which have been formed from the moulding sand and an inorganic binder. The method includes: a) mixing the foundry sand mixture with cleaning water to form a slurry in order to dissolve the inorganic binder residues contained in the foundry sand mixture and optionally present additives from the moulding sand and to rinse them from the foundry sand mixture, and b) separating the cleaning water contaminated with the inorganic binder residues from the moulding sand contained in the slurry, wherein the process temperature of the slurry formed in step a) is 50 to 200° C.

An apparatus and a method for cleaning sand used at a foundry, wherein sand to be cleaned is screened by a screening apparatus. The screened sand and at least one liquid mixture is fed into an abrasive apparatus. After that, the screened sand is rubbed by the abrasive apparatus. The rubbed sand and at least one liquid mixture is added to a water separation screen for separating a water blend from the rubbed sand. Finally, the separated sand is transferred into an oven and cleaned thermally by rotating the separated sand in the heated oven.

A core molding apparatus and a core molding method capable of reducing the possibility of the deterioration in the calculation accuracy of the amount of supply of a raw material for a core are provided. A core molding apparatus includes: a kneading tank configured to knead a raw material for a core; a raw material supply unit configured to supply the raw material to the kneading tank; a mold configured to contain a kneaded material made of the raw material kneaded in the kneading tank and to mold the core; a piston configured to inject the kneaded material contained in the kneading tank into the mold; and a control unit configured to control an amount of supply of the raw material from the raw material supply unit to the kneading tank.

A chemical regeneration method of water glass used sand is provided in the present disclosure, which belongs to the field of resource recycling in the casting industry. The present disclosure adopts a two-component reagent composed of calcium oxide and tap water, emulsion composed of sucrose and calcium oxide, and calcium chloride aqueous solution to process the regeneration of the used sand, and prepares the sample of the reclaimed sand obtained after the reagent mixed with the used sand is sealed and placed for 0 to 24 hours respectively, and tests the properties of the sample including: initial strength, final strength and collapsibility, and sodium carbonate content, and compares the properties of raw sand and used sand after the tests. Among several regeneration methods, each property index of the reclaimed sand obtained by using calcium oxide and tap water to regenerate for 12 hours is the best.

A water supply and kneading system for green sand, including: a weighing hopper that stores green sand that has been weighed; a kneading machine that kneads the green sand and water; a sand loading means for releasing the green sand in the weighing hopper into the kneading machine, or shutting off the release; a water supply device that supplies water to the green sand in the kneading machine; a moisture sensor that includes a pair of electrodes and measures the moisture content of the green sand stored in the weighing hopper by measuring an electric potential difference between the electrodes; and a kneading control device that controls the amount of water supplied by the water supply device and controls the sand loading means on the basis of the output of the moisture sensor.

A chemical regeneration method of water glass used sand, which belongs to the field of resource recycling in the casting industry. The present invention adopts a two-component reagent composed of calcium oxide and tap water, an emulsion composed of sucrose and calcium oxide, and a calcium chloride aqueous solution to process the regeneration of the used sand, and prepares the sample of the reclaimed sand obtained after the reagent mixed with the used sand is sealed and placed for 0 to 24 hours respectively, and tests the properties of the sample including: initial strength, final strength and collapsibility, and sodium carbonate content, and compares the properties of raw sand and used sand after the tests. Among several regeneration methods, each property index of the reclaimed sand obtained by using calcium oxide and tap water to regenerate for 12 hours is the best.

The invention provides a method for the cost-effective, resource-saving and highly productive recovery of moulding sand (F) from a foundry sand mixture (G), which comprises at least one proportion (FAB) of moulding material fragments or loose moulding material grains, which accumulates when a cast part is demoulded from a casting mould as a result of the destruction of casting cores or moulded parts representing the cast part which have been formed from the moulding sand (F) and an inorganic binder and optionally one or a plurality of additives to set the properties of the moulding material, wherein the method comprises the work steps a) mixing the foundry sand mixture (G) with cleaning water (RW) to form a slurry (S) in order to dissolve the inorganic binder residues (AB) contained in the foundry sand mixture (G) and optionally present additives from the moulding sand (F) and to rinse them out of the foundry sand mixture (G),
and b) separating the cleaning water (RWK) contaminated with the inorganic binder residues (AB) from the moulding sand (F) contained in the slurry (S),
and wherein the process temperature of the slurry (S) formed from the cleaning water and the foundry sand mixture (G) (work step a)) is 50 to 200° C.

A green sand treatment equipment monitoring system that detects that the condition of green sand treatment equipment is deteriorating before the green sand treatment equipment fails, or detects that the quality of green sand treated by the green sand treatment equipment and kneaded sand produced from the green sand is deteriorating before it becomes clear that the green sand and the kneaded sand are defective products. The system including: an information collecting device that collects, in real time, data measured by equipment within green sand treatment equipment; and a diagnostic device that compares, in real time, the collected data with a control value, and displays a diagnosis result if the diagnostic device determines that the collected data has deviated from the control value.

A method for inorganic binder casting, comprising: selecting a Shape-Forming Material based on pre-determined manufacturing and shape characteristics, selecting a casting shape based on pre-determined design characteristics, and forming the Shape-Forming Material into a mold. The mold is coated with an inorganic binder solution at a pre-defined weight ratio and is dehydrated the Shape-Forming Material. The method further comprises pouring a hot liquid metal into the mold and allowing said hot liquid metal to cool to form a molded part. The Shape-Forming Material may be washed from said molded part with a solvent, the inorganic material and Shape-Forming Material reclaimed, reused, and the Shape-Forming Material reformed to a mold. The method further comprises recreating a liquid inorganic binder solution using the reclaimed inorganic material and recoating the Shape-Forming Material with the reclaimed inorganic binder solution.

An apparatus and a method for cleaning sand used at a foundry, wherein sand to be cleaned is screened by a screening apparatus. The screened sand and at least one liquid mixture is fed into an abrasive apparatus. After that, the screened sand is rubbed by the abrasive apparatus. The rubbed sand and at least one liquid mixture is added to a water separation screen for separating a water blend from the rubbed sand. Finally, the separated sand is transferred into an oven and cleaned thermally by rotating the separated sand in the heated oven.