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\uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300 On the 27th, LG Electronics signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for a pilot project to recover discarded permanent magnets from home appliance refrigerant compressors and recycle them as rare-earth elements, a key mineral. The photo shows a Compressor inside an outdoor air conditioner unit, left. The company plans to recover the discarded permanent magnets located at the bottom of the Compressor. <\/p>\n
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LG Electronics is launching its own technology to recover rare-earth permanent magnets from discarded home appliance parts and recycle them as industrial resources, as it moves to help build a national circular economy ecosystem.<\/p>\n
On the 27th, LG Electronics signed a business cooperation agreement (MOU) with the Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment and E-Circular Governance at the Metropolitan Resource Circulation Center in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, for the pilot project to recover discarded permanent magnets from home appliance refrigerant compressors. The signing ceremony was attended by Geum Han-seung, first vice minister of the Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment; Lee Sang-jin, chairman of E-Circular Governance; Yang Hee-gu, head of the Production Innovation Center at LG Electronics’ Production Technology Institute; and Jeong Dae-jin, head of the Mold and Quality Research Institute.<\/p>\n
The pilot project aims to recover and recycle rare-earth permanent magnets, a key mineral, from discarded compressors, one of the core components of home appliances. Rare-earth elements are widely used in advanced industries such as electric vehicles, industrial motors and home appliances, making stable supply chains increasingly important. Until now, the rare-earth permanent magnets contained in compressors have been difficult to separate because of their strong magnetic force, so only some metals such as copper were recovered before most of the material was recycled as scrap metal.<\/p>\n
LG Electronics developed a process that uses demagnetization technology to remove the strong magnetic force of rare-earth permanent magnets and separate them safely. Compared with the conventional heat-treatment method, which used high heat to separate the magnets, the new process reduces energy use. The separated magnets also retain their properties without thermal deformation, improving recovery efficiency and recycling value.<\/p>\n
LG Electronics is also applying vision-based artificial intelligence (AI) image analysis technology to the process of separating rare-earth permanent magnets. Using AI, the company identifies the size and shape of discarded compressors and precisely analyzes the location of the rare-earth permanent magnets that need to be separated, allowing it to apply the optimal separation process.<\/p>\n
Through this pilot project, LG Electronics expects to recover about 1.6 tons of rare-earth permanent magnets annually from some 40,000 discarded home appliances. The recovered magnets will later be used in the development of raw-material technologies for producing new magnets. Yang Hee-gu, head of the Production Innovation Center at LG Electronics’ Production Technology Institute, said, “We will continue strengthening our technological capabilities in resource circulation to recover and reuse key materials from end-of-life products, contributing to the realization of a circular economy. We will also take the lead in building a foundation for the stable circular use of future key minerals.”<\/p>\n
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