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During the development of this system, I was exposed again to the applications of rare earth
magnets. This time the introduction centered around the use of permanent magnets in the
separation process that required removing ferrous metals (iron) from plastic waste streams.
The rare earth magnets were shaped into cylinders which rotated above conveyors, carrying
mixed waste streams, gently (and sometimes not so gently), grabbing on to any material that
contained the smallest amount of iron and lifting it from the conveyor. The separators were
very simple in nature. They were typically a drum magnet mounted on the shaft and supported
by 2 bearings, one on each end, and rotated slowly by a small electric motor. This assembly was
typically suspended 2 to 4 inches above the moving conveyor. Any iron containing material that
passed under the rotating magnet, was swiftly pulled onto the rotating magnet, and scraped off
into a trough, for disposal or recycling.

In the waste streams that I worked with at the time, were surgical instruments, syringes,
medical devices, and separators used for blood and other body fluids. Some of these devices
contain magnets. The laboratory at which I worked at the time in Nevada, was set up with small
lab devices that could be used, to improve separation and post recycling processes. I had
noticed on many occasions, that some of the medical devices, that contain some type of
magnet, would spin, lift, or in some instances fly off the laboratory apparatus with some
significant force. Substantially more force than the slowly rotating permanent magnet. I played
with these separators for years. I learned a great deal about magnetic fields.

In the late 1990s, probably sometime in 1998, I was invited to participate in a series of
aluminum casting experiments, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the Sandia National
Laboratories. Nothing supersecret, or world changing, just a possible new way to manufacture
housings for friction brakes for a military vehicle, which I had regularly manufactured during my
time as a defense contractor, years earlier. Once again, coincidence aligned me with another
view of rare earth magnets in which one of my development partners suggested magnets as a
possible way to quickly clamp and unclamp a set of molds. While that idea was abandoned due
to costs, I could not get the strength of these rare earth magnets out of my thoughts. I also
noticed that the cost of these magnets was significantly less than they were a few years earlier.

In 2009, I started buying rare earth magnets, in an effort to use them to hold filter media
together for wastewater treatment. I had taken on the task of the de-commissioning two
refineries located in Australia. I thought it was a perfect opportunity to introduce a new
sophisticated filtration media, manufactured from polymers, and novel processing techniques,
that included the filters that could be quickly changed through the use of magnetic clamps. My

pg. 10 A Demonstration of Induced Angular Momentum in a Flywheel Energy Storage and Harvesting Device Through the Elimination and Control of Entropy in a Thermodynamic System
in the Presence of a Paired Permanent Magnetic Field

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By Dennis M. Danzik