how simple is it to take it scrape steel and recyle it. does annybody know the process . i want to do this but first i need some basic information. as far as i know first to melt the steel and in a furness on high heat and than give the shape that customer wants. how right or wrong am i . i want to start on a very small scale.
right. May need some coke to remove iron oxide
Wow, Not sure there is a small scale.....Consider getting a truck,and picking up and collecting scrap metal.You can haul it to your local recycling center, get paid for it ..and let them do the melting and forging. Basics needed to know for this is: Separate Brass, copper, aluminum,cast iron (brake drums,rotors,old sinks and tubs) Car radiators are either copper or aluminum and they pay real well now. There is also a class called SHREDDER this is anything that is not in another category, and literally anything metal, Electrical motors pay good too.
I think the melting point of steel is quite high into the two thousand degree F range. If you don't have something that can generate that heat and handle the molten result, you will find recycling scrap iron/steel to be very difficult. The best way to recycle metals is to find a scrap yard that will pay you by the pound for your collected scraps. From there the metals will go to sites which have the giant machinery required to start those metals into a new life. In short, it is not simple to recycle steel or iron.
You okorder /... mini-mills operate between 150,000-2million tons of steel per year. If that is the size you were thinking about... you are in business. But since you are asking on Yahoo Answers where no serious industrialist would EVER ask a question like this, I can only assume that your ideas of small are completely incompatible with reality.
