CarPID Nylon Carpet recycling Near Infrared NIR Spectroscopy portable laser

Description

One CarPID with dead 7.2v battery, no charger. Being sold  "as is".  A unique device (you will not likely see another one on ebay, or anywhere else! ) to quickly identify various fibers (Nylon-6 Nylon 66, and I believe
polypropylene or polyethylene)
for
recycling using
Near Infrared (NIR) spectroscopy
. I believe it works by hitting the surface with a specific wavelength laser and detecting the reflected light radiation. This was developed by DSM and Honeywell for an innovative method to
identity
and sort used carpet so it could be
recycled
and kept out of the landfill.  Used carpet
represents
a large volume of current landfills, and is technically a r
ecyclable
resource. A production sized pilot plant was constructed and operated for a few years, unfortunately market conditions changed and it was no longer viable to operate.  This unit was used at the plant and was within a lot of equipment sold after shutdown. When I acquired it, the panel would light up for a second or two when switch on-but the battery drained, and there is no charger with it.  While there is no warning label on this-I believe it does fire a laser out of the bottom when operational.
From the web:
Near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy is the most reliable way of carpet identification. The
face fiber is illuminated. The reflection of the light tells about the type of carpet face
material. The example of such equipment is a CarPID.  It is a portable device for fast identification of fibers.
And a search of the patent number:  "
Method of identifying post consumer or post industrial waste carpet utilizing a hand-held infrared spectrometer"
Patent number: 5952660
Abstract: A method and apparatus for use in the recycling of post consumer or post industrial waste carpet or Polyamide-6 and/or Polyamide-66 containing non-carpet waste utilizes a hand-held portable device utilizing spectroscopic principles to accurately and quickly identify the material of the waste (carpet). The spectrometer envisioned for this task includes an infrared radiation source for illuminating the waste (carpet) sample, a selector for selecting a predetermined number of discrete wavelengths and a detection system to detect reflected radiation within the discrete wavelengths. The selector can be either a plate with a plurality of slots which positionally correspond to locations in a dispersed light beam according to the predetermined discrete wavelengths or a plurality of filters selected to pass the discrete wavelengths. The selection of the discrete wavelengths can either take place before the carpet sample is irradiated or can take place by selecting the discrete wavelengths from reflected radiation.
Type: Grant
Filed: January 6, 1998
Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
Assignees: DSM N.V. & Institut fur Chemo, Biosensorik
Inventors: Berend J. Kip, Edo A. T. Peters, Jens Happel, Thomas Huth-Fehre, Frank Kowol
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