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Index Aircraft recycling

Aircraft recycling is the process of scrapping and disassembling retired aircraft, and re-purposing their parts as spare parts or scrap.[1]

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  1. 53 relations: Airbus, Airbus A340, Aircraft boneyard, Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association, Airliner, Alloy, Aluminium alloy, Aluminium recycling, Asbestos, Avolon, Bauxite, Blockchain, Boeing, Boeing 777, Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Bromotrifluoromethane, Carbon fibers, Carbon-fiber reinforced polymer, Chemical composition, Chemical impurity, Composite material, Contamination, Cygnus Business Media, Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, Electronic waste, Evacuation slide, Flame retardant, Fluidized bed, Fuselage, Heavy metals, Hexavalent chromium, Honeywell Aerospace Technologies, Line-replaceable unit, Lithium, McDonnell Douglas MD-80, Mojave Air and Space Port, Natural rubber, PAMELA Project, Pyrolysis, Recycling, Rolls-Royce Holdings, Scrap, Smelting, Solvolysis, Southwest Airlines, Spare part, Steel, Suez Recycling and Recovery UK, Tarbes–Lourdes–Pyrénées Airport, ... Expand index (3 more) »

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Airbus

Airbus SE is a European multinational aerospace corporation.

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Airbus A340

The Airbus A340 is a long-range, wide-body passenger airliner that was developed and produced by Airbus.

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Aircraft boneyard

An aircraft boneyard or aircraft graveyard is a storage area for aircraft which are retired from service.

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Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association

The Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association (AFRA) is an international non-profit association that brings together manufacturers, recycling companies and aviation tech companies across the aircraft industry. Aircraft recycling and aircraft Fleet Recycling Association are recycling industry.

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Airliner

An airliner is a type of airplane for transporting passengers and air cargo.

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Alloy

An alloy is a mixture of chemical elements of which in most cases at least one is a metallic element, although it is also sometimes used for mixtures of elements; herein only metallic alloys are described.

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Aluminium alloy

An aluminium alloy (UK/IUPAC) or aluminum alloy (NA; see spelling differences) is an alloy in which aluminium (Al) is the predominant metal.

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Aluminium recycling

Aluminium recycling is the process in which secondary commercial aluminium is created from scrap or other forms of end-of-life or otherwise unusable aluminium.

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Asbestos

Asbestos is a naturally occurring fibrous silicate mineral.

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Avolon

Avolon is an aircraft leasing company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

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Bauxite

Bauxite is a sedimentary rock with a relatively high aluminium content.

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Blockchain

A blockchain is a distributed ledger with growing lists of records (blocks) that are securely linked together via cryptographic hashes.

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Boeing

The Boeing Company (or simply Boeing) is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, and missiles worldwide.

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Boeing 777

The Boeing 777, commonly referred to as the Triple Seven, is an American long-range wide-body airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes.

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Boeing 787 Dreamliner

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is an American wide-body airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes.

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Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) is a division of the Boeing Company.

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Bromotrifluoromethane

Bromotrifluoromethane, commonly referred to by the code numbers Halon 1301, R13B1, Halon 13B1 or BTM, is an organic halide with the chemical formula CBrF3.

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Carbon fibers

Carbon fibers or carbon fibres (alternatively CF, graphite fiber or graphite fibre) are fibers about in diameter and composed mostly of carbon atoms.

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Carbon-fiber reinforced polymer

Carbon fiber-reinforced polymers (American English), carbon-fibre-reinforced polymers (Commonwealth English), carbon-fiber-reinforced plastics, carbon-fiber reinforced-thermoplastic (CFRP, CRP, CFRTP), also known as carbon fiber, carbon composite, or just carbon, are extremely strong and light fiber-reinforced plastics that contain carbon fibers.

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Chemical composition

A chemical composition specifies the identity, arrangement, and ratio of the chemical elements making up a compound by way of chemical and atomic bonds.

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Chemical impurity

In chemistry and materials science, impurities are chemical substances inside a confined amount of liquid, gas, or solid.

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Composite material

A composite material (also called a composition material or shortened to composite, which is the common name) is a material which is produced from two or more constituent materials.

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Contamination

Contamination is the presence of a constituent, impurity, or some other undesirable element that renders something unsuitable, unfit or harmful for physical body, natural environment, workplace, etc.

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Cygnus Business Media is a diversified microcap business-to-business media company, providing 1.7 million readers annually, according to the company, with many business media options, including business publications, trade shows, online opportunities, custom publications, directories, buyer's guides, advertising card decks, research and more.

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Davis–Monthan Air Force Base

Davis–Monthan Air Force Base (DM AFB) is a United States Air Force base southeast of downtown Tucson, Arizona.

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Electronic waste

Electronic waste (or e-waste) describes discarded electrical or electronic devices.

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Evacuation slide

An evacuation slide is an inflatable slide used to evacuate an aircraft quickly.

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Flame retardant

The term flame retardant subsumes a diverse group of chemicals that are added to manufactured materials, such as plastics and textiles, and surface finishes and coatings.

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Fluidized bed

A fluidized bed is a physical phenomenon that occurs when a solid particulate substance (usually present in a holding vessel) is under the right conditions so that it behaves like a fluid.

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Fuselage

The fuselage (from the French fuselé "spindle-shaped") is an aircraft's main body section.

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Hexavalent chromium

Hexavalent chromium (chromium(VI), Cr(VI), chromium 6) is any chemical compound that contains the element in the +6 oxidation state (thus hexavalent).

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Honeywell Aerospace Technologies

Honeywell Aerospace Technologies is a manufacturer of aircraft engines and avionics, as well as a producer of auxiliary power units (APUs) and other aviation products.

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Line-replaceable unit

A line-replaceable unit (LRU), lower line-replaceable unit (LLRU), line-replaceable component (LRC), or line-replaceable item (LRI) is a modular component of an airplane, ship or spacecraft (or any other manufactured device) that is designed to be replaced quickly at an operating location (1st line).

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Lithium

Lithium is a chemical element; it has symbol Li and atomic number 3.

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McDonnell Douglas MD-80

The McDonnell Douglas MD-80 is a series of five-abreast single-aisle airliners developed by McDonnell Douglas.

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Mojave Air and Space Port

The Mojave Air and Space Port at Rutan Field is in Mojave, California, United States, at an elevation of.

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Natural rubber

Rubber, also called India rubber, latex, Amazonian rubber, caucho, or caoutchouc, as initially produced, consists of polymers of the organic compound isoprene, with minor impurities of other organic compounds.

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PAMELA Project

The Process for Advanced Management of End-of-Life Aircraft (PAMELA) Project, initiated in 2006, is an enterprise set up by Airbus at Tarbes Airport in Southern France, with the aim of recycling aircraft parts.

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Pyrolysis

Pyrolysis is the process of thermal decomposition of materials at elevated temperatures, often in an inert atmosphere.

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Recycling

Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects.

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Rolls-Royce Holdings

Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is a British multinational aerospace and defence company incorporated in February 2011.

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Scrap

Scrap consists of recyclable materials, usually metals, left over from product manufacturing and consumption, such as parts of vehicles, building supplies, and surplus materials.

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Smelting

Smelting is a process of applying heat and a chemical reducing agent to an ore to extract a desired base metal product.

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Solvolysis

In chemistry, solvolysis is a type of nucleophilic substitution (S1/S2) or elimination where the nucleophile is a solvent molecule.

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Southwest Airlines

Southwest Airlines Co. is a major airline in the United States that operates on a low-cost carrier model.

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Spare part

A spare part, spare, service part, repair part, or replacement part, is an interchangeable part that is kept in an inventory and used for the repair or refurbishment of defective equipment/units.

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Steel

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon with improved strength and fracture resistance compared to other forms of iron.

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Suez Recycling and Recovery UK

SUEZ Recycling and Recovery UK Ltd, formerly SITA UK Limited, is a British waste management company, established in 1988.

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Tarbes–Lourdes–Pyrénées Airport

Tarbes–Lourdes–Pyrénées Airport (Aéroport Tarbes Lourdes Pyrénées) is an airport 9 km south-southwest of Tarbes in the Hautes-Pyrénées département of France.

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Thermoplastic

A thermoplastic, or thermosoftening plastic, is any plastic polymer material that becomes pliable or moldable at a certain elevated temperature and solidifies upon cooling.

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Titanium alloys

Titanium alloys are alloys that contain a mixture of titanium and other chemical elements.

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Toughness

In materials science and metallurgy, toughness is the ability of a material to absorb energy and plastically deform without fracturing.

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See also

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_recycling

Also known as Aircraft retirement, Aircraft storage.

, Thermoplastic, Titanium alloys, Toughness.