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Materials Recovery Facility: Optical & Eddy-Current Sorting (2D)

Interactive 2D top-down single-stream recycling sorting line: a magnetic drum pulls ferrous cans, an NIR optical scanner classifies plastics, and an eddy-current separator flings aluminum further than everything else while contamination degrades purity in real time.

Ecology & Conservation Biology2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

This is a top-down 2D rebuild of the physical sorting line inside a real single-stream Materials Recovery Facility: a mixed conveyor of steel cans, aluminum cans, PET and HDPE plastic, cardboard and contamination passes under an overhead magnetic drum that pulls ferrous metal free, then a near-infrared optical scanner that fires an air jet at recognizable plastic types, and finally an eddy-current separator whose spinning magnetic rotor flings conductive aluminum further off the belt's end than everything else. Four real controls — belt speed, contamination rate, NIR sensor accuracy and eddy-current field strength — feed a live physical model, with plastics-stream purity, aluminum recovery, throughput and overall diversion rate updating live on the dashboard strip as items land in their bins. Drag the main canvas to pan along the belt.

⚙ Under the hood

Top-down 2D single-stream recycling sorting line: a magnetic drum pulls ferrous cans off the belt, an NIR optical scanner classifies and air-jets plastics, and an eddy-current separator flings aluminum further than everything else, with a live dashboard strip tracking purity and recovery as contamination and sensor accuracy change. Drag the canvas to pan along the belt.

recyclingwaste managementeddy currentNIR sortingcircular economymaterials recovery

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install