In this study, we carried out a research on material separation for soft PVC and
HDPE mixing plastics by triboelectrostatic separation. From the research on
charging characteristic for choice of charging materials, it was found that PP was
optimum charging material to make high charging amount with opposite polarity
for soft PVC and HDPE mixing plastics. Therefore, we manufactured a charger of
pipe line type using PP material for separation of Soft PVC and HDPE. At
optimum test conditions that used PP cyclone charger developed in this study, we
developed a triboelectrostatic separation technique that can separate soft PVC to
rejection of 98.7% and HDPE to recovery of 85.2%.