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Politecnico di Milano DEMANUFACTURING 27 GENNAIO 2016 1/3 Name / Nome Surname / Cognome Matriculation N./Matricola GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS  Write your name, surname and matriculation number in CAPITAL letters in the above box and on your exam paper sheets  During the exam, ONLY the official lesson material and the suggested additional material are allowed  Exercise material, solved exercises or personal notes are NOT allowed.  Write using a pen; pencil written texts will not be considered.  The written text is the only official document which will determine the final mark  Report all your hypotheses  Report the used formulae, the complete procedure and the numerical results  Report all the graphs on your exam paper sheets  It is possible to attach a folder with the files used to solve the exercises  The files will be opened by the reviewer only to solve possible open issues during the exam correction  The files must be blank at the beginning of the exam  Exam Time and Exercises:  2.30 hours EXERCISE 1 WEEE Recycling Ltd. is a waste management services company, located in West Europe, which collects, disassemble and process WEEE. The capacity of the recycling plant is about 12000 t/year, including notebook, cathode ray tubes (televisions, computer monitors), fridges an d freezers. The company is now evaluating the possibility to process mobile phones in a dedicated line, including an automated disassembly cell and sorting unit in order to recover the valuable components (e.g. rare earth and precious metal rich). WEEE Recycling Ltd. entrusts your company to undertake this analysis, with the aim to evaluate the economic feasibility. Preliminary analyses will be performed considering a most common mobile phone with flip mechanism, represented in Figure 1…