Biscuits Catylitic Converter Project

Originally Posted by hobo finds

I can't scrap a car without a cat on it around here!

Hobo am I reading into this that you have trouble finding a scrap car with the cat still on it.

Part of the plan for this year once I have most of the cars available with in reasonable distance from me is to park the crane truck then re-license the dodge pick up and go north- where ever that maybe.

I figure that the cars local to me should net me around 10 / 15 thousand cash, this will not buy me many cats but get me closer to my goal then I can max out my credit card to finish up. I've managed to keep the card with a zero balance. It's a gamble I would take if the payout from refining is timely.

This is the top of the food chain refiner, some interesting tid bits from their website.

It's obvious that the feedstock is milled before entering the plasma arc furnace. When I decided to get into this project knew that catylitic comb and beads were to be treated as ore same as if you mined it from the earth. Only difference is that cats are high grade ore recovered from urban mining.



The catalyst materials are fed into the plasma arc furnace. A 10,000 degree centigrade electric flame moves across the surface of the catalyst heating them to temperatures that range from 1,500 to 1,600 degrees centigrade. The plasma arc is moved above the molten bath to distribute the tremendously intense heat over the entire surface, keeping the bath fluid and providing a stirring effect, causing the precious metals to collect together and settle to the bottom of the furnace in a layer of molten metal.

The slag flows continuously from the furnace, is cooled, crushed and sold to steel manufacturers for use in manufacturing high grade steel. The precious metal alloy is tapped, cooled, milled, then refined into Platinum, Palladium and Rhodium.