Dismantling of end life vehicles in Poland.docVIP

TRANSPORT PROBLEMS PROBLEMY TRANSPORTU 2008 Tom 3 Zeszyt 3 Piotr NOWAKOWSKI Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Transport, Department of Logistics and Material Handling ul. Krasińskiego 8, 40-019 Katowice, Poland Corresponding author. E-mail: Piotr.Nowakowski@polsl.pl DISMANTLING OF END LIFE VEHICLES IN POLAND Summary. In the paper there are presented problems with dismantling of end life vehicles in Poland. The new solutions are website based database environment for gaining information about materials used in vehicles and methods of dismantling. There is a project of small size dismantling station presented in this article. DEMONTA? POJAZDóW WYCOFANYCH Z EKSPLOATACJI W POLSCE Streszczenie. W pracy przedstawiono problemy demonta?u pojazdów samochodowych w Polsce. Przedstawiono metody komputerowego wspomagania wymiany informacji o cz??ciach, metodach demonta?u, rozbiórki pojazdów. W dalszej cz??ci przedstawiono za?o?enia projektowe ma?ej stacji demonta?u pojazdów. 1. INTRODUCTION The number of end life cars increased within the last few years. It is connected with the high volume of imported cars that started to be brought into the country after joining the European Community by Poland. Total number of cars introduced to Polish market reaches 1 million including new and used cars imported from other European countries (fig. 1). 900 800 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 0 New cars Used cars 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Fig. 1. Total number of cars introduced on the market each year in Poland Rys. 1. Liczba wprowadzonych pojazdów na rynek polski w latach 1999-2007  18 P. Nowakowski Therefore there are new tasks for enterprises and companies dealing with dismantling of end life vehicles and logistics of waste, used parts and materials [7]. 2. END LIFE VEHICLES The task of dismantling end life cars is becoming a serious problem for the environment