Drip irrigation tape recycling machines can treat with agriculture drip tape efficiency. The whole process includes crushing, water rinsing, friction washing, dring by washing system; plasticization, pelletizing and drying by the pelletizing system. PLC intelligent system realized high automatic, the whole line just needs 3-4 man to operate. With over 20 years of experience in recycling, WANROOETECH not only mastered the key technology but also improved machine designs to address specific product features. WANROOETECH offers drip irrigation tape recycling machines are high output and low energy consumption.

What is drip irrigation tape?

Understanding Drip Irrigation Systems Drip irrigation is a precision irrigation system that delivers water slowly and directly to plant roots through a network of valves, pipes, tubing, and emitters. Water drips onto the soil surface or is buried below the surface near root zones. This method effectively saves water and fertilizer compared to surface irrigation or sprinkler systems because it minimizes evaporation, runoff, and deep percolation losses.
The End-of-Life Challenge For decades, drip irrigation has helped increase agricultural efficiency and reduce growers’ operating costs through decreased labor, energy, and water use. However, at the end of their service life—typically 3-5 years for thin-wall tape and 7-10 years for heavy-wall tubing—these plastic products must be properly managed. Landfill disposal is not a sustainable solution because the degradation cycle of current plastics is at least 200 years. Instead of letting waste drip irrigation tape accumulate in landfills, recycling makes both economic and environmental sense, saving valuable landfill space for more productive uses.

Why recycle drip irrigation tape?

For decades, drip irrigation has helped increase efficiency and reduce growers’ operating costs through decreased labor, energy and water use. But at the end of its lifecycle, the drip irrigation tapes need to be treated properly. The landfill is not a long-term solution, because the degradation cycle of current plastics is at least 200 years in general. Instead of letting the waste drip irrigation tape be thrown into landfills, it makes good sense of recycling, and the valuable landfill space can be saved for more productive uses. Also, drip irrigation tape recycling machine is great for both the economy and the environment.

How to recycling drip irrigation tape?

Waste drip irrigation tape usually is a long size. So in the recycling process for such products, size reduction is the first step which usually is done by a shredder. Drip irrigation tape is turned into small scraps after shredding, and those scraps are then put into re-production according to various manufacturing requirements. Usually, the waste will be processed by sorting, shredding, crushing, mixing with new resin raw material or adding additives, and melting, and then re-made into new plastic raw material. Recycling the waste irrigation tubing/hose/tape can produce a recycled resin that can be re-used in agricultural, mining and landscape drip line applications. The recycled resin also gets used in industrial products such as plastic pallets.

Drip Irrigation Tape Washing Machine Process:

Belt Conveyor: Heavy-duty type, adopt gear motor; Sidewalls to avoid spilling of feeding material;

Crusher: Optimally designed blades are sharp and powerful; Enclosed cutting chamber to prevent materials flying out; Knives are externally adjustable;

Screw Conveyor: Screw adopt wear-resistant stainless steel; Triple sealing, External bearing design;

Friction Washer: Rotor and blades adopt wear-resistant steel; Rotor with dynamic balance treatment. Accuracy: ±3-5g; Active material washing to protect downstream units;

Washing Tank: Double station discharge valve at the bottom; All Thumb-wheel speed variable by inverter control; Heavy-duty washing, separation of different specific densities material;

Centrifugal Dryer: Rotor with dynamic balance treatment. Accuracy: ±3-5g; Mild circular screen in polygon 4 piece version; Washer/dryer housing built-in stainless steel welded construction;

Hot Air Pipe Dryer: Pipeline built-in stainless steel welded construction; All parts touch raw materials are stainless steel; Hot air drying system;

Electrical Cabinet: International brand Low voltage components; Double circuit safety relay; Intelligent and modular PLC controlling system.

Drip Irrigation Tape Pelletizing Process:

The drip irrigation belt granulation process covers seven core processes: feeding, compaction, extrusion, degassing, filtration, granulation, and drying. The automatic feeding and frequency control of plastic waste are achieved through belt conveyors to ensure stable material supply; The compactor evenly cuts, mixes, and preheats materials to improve flowability and reduce moisture content; The high-efficiency extruder adopts high wear-resistant alloy screws and optimized barrel design, achieving a dual improvement in plasticizing effect and output; The forced dual vacuum degassing system deeply removes low molecular weight volatiles, moisture, and printing ink to ensure particle purity; Plate, piston, backwash, and automatic self-cleaning filters can flexibly adapt to different impurity contents to ensure the cleanliness of the melt; The newly designed water ring granulator in Europe uses PLC intelligent control of cutting speed to ensure uniform particle size; The combination of vibration dryer and horizontal centrifugal dryer achieves dual efficient drying of particles, ultimately producing high-quality drip irrigation belt regenerated particles with low moisture content and strong stability. This process significantly improves production efficiency and product quality through modular design and intelligent control, promoting the resource utilization of agricultural waste and the sustainable development of water-saving agriculture.

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