Polyurethane recycling and disposal: Methods and prospects

A Kemona, M Piotrowska - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Growing water and land pollution, the possibility of exhaustion of raw materials and
resistance of plastics to physical and chemical factors results in increasing importance of …

Current trends in bio‐based elastomer materials

S Tang, J Li, R Wang, J Zhang, Y Lu, GH Hu, Z Wang… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Elastomers play an irreplaceable role in our society due to their unique properties. Natural
rubber is directly obtained from plants and is widely used in tires, shoes, etc. Recently …

Review on disposal, recycling and management of waste polyurethane foams: a way ahead

J Banik, D Chakraborty, M Rizwan… - Waste Management …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
With the burning issue of air, land and water pollution, the premonition of looking forward
towards a future devoid of any kind of oil and gas reserves has caused a paradigm shift …

Progress of bio-based coatings in waterborne system: Synthesis routes and monomers from renewable resources

YW Chek, DTC Ang - Progress in Organic Coatings, 2024 - Elsevier
Bio-based coatings are becoming more relevant today due to depleting fossil resources as
well as the adverse environmental impacts from the wide usage of petrochemicals in coating …

Rigid polyurethane foams with various isocyanate indices based on polyols from rapeseed oil and waste PET

A Ivdre, A Abolins, I Sevastyanova, M Kirpluks… - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Developing polyols derived from natural sources and recycling materials attracts great
interest for use in replacing petroleum-based polyols in polyurethane production. In this …

Development of fully organic coating system modified with epoxidized soybean oil with superior corrosion protection performance

S Ammar, AWM Iling, K Ramesh, S Ramesh - Progress in Organic Coatings, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, different loading ratios of epoxy resin (E) and epoxidized soybean oil (ESO)
were introduced into acrylic–silicone polymeric blend with the presence of polyisocyanate …

Synthesis and characterisation of polyurethane made from pyrolysis bio-oil of pine wood

J Gharib, S Pang, D Holland - European Polymer Journal, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the manufacture of polyurethane from pyrolysis bio-oil produced
from radiata pine wood. Liquid-liquid extraction was used to separate bio-oil into fractions …

Synthesis, structure and properties of poly (ester-urethane) s obtained using bio-based and petrochemical 1, 3-propanediol and 1, 4-butanediol

J Datta, P Kasprzyk, K Błażek, M Włoch - Journal of Thermal Analysis and …, 2017 - Springer
In this paper, the poly (ester-urethane) s obtained using petrochemical and bio-based chain
extenders were prepared and characterized. The influence of glycols' origin on the chemical …

The role of hydrogen bonding on tuning hard-soft segments in bio-based thermoplastic poly (ether-urethane) s

P Kasprzyk, H Benes, RK Donato, J Datta - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020 - Elsevier
This work describes the preparation of bio-based thermoplastic poly (ether-urethane) s
(TPU) via a prepolymer method and investigates the effect of varying the interphase …

Effect of the addition of biobased polyols on the thermal stability and flame retardancy of polyurethane and poly (urea) urethane elastomers

K Mizera, K Sałasińska, J Ryszkowska, M Kurańska… - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Due to the current trends in sustainable development and the reduction in the use of fossil
fuels (Green Deal strategy and the circular economy), and thus, the increased interest of the …