A critical review and future perspective of plastic waste recycling

R Tiwari, N Azad, D Dutta, BR Yadav… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Plastic waste is increasing rapidly due to urbanisation and globalization. In recent decades,
plastic usage increased, and the upward trend is expected to continue. Only 9% of the 7 …

[HTML][HTML] Plastic waste recycling via pyrolysis: A bibliometric survey and literature review

S Armenise, W SyieLuing… - Journal of Analytical and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Plastic materials have been crucial to the development of science, technology, and almost
all aspects of modern progress since the mid-twentieth century. However, the increasingly …

Challenges and strategies for effective plastic waste management during and post COVID-19 pandemic

KR Vanapalli, HB Sharma, VP Ranjan, B Samal… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic has enhanced the complexities of plastic waste
management. Our improved, hyper-hygienic way of life in the fear of transmission has …

Collective influence of 1-decanol addition, injection pressure and EGR on diesel engine characteristics fueled with diesel/LDPE oil blends

S Rajasekaran, D Damodharan, K Gopal, BR Kumar… - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
Plastic waste is abundant and its recovery to diesel-like fuel could reduce fossil fuel
dependency and the associated risk of environmental pollution. In the present work, diesel …

[HTML][HTML] Separation of plastic wastes using froth flotation–an overview

O Kökkılıç, S Mohammadi-Jam, P Chu, C Marion… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite various initiatives and efforts, plastic solid waste (PSW) has become a major global
problem due to decades of relentless use of plastics. Since non-biodegradable plastics can …

Challenges in biodegradation of non-degradable thermoplastic waste: From environmental impact to operational readiness

N Taghavi, IA Udugama, WQ Zhuang… - Biotechnology Advances, 2021 - Elsevier
Non-degradable plastics such as polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polystyrene (PS),
and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) are among the most generated plastic wastes in …

[HTML][HTML] Production of liquid fuel from plastic waste using integrated pyrolysis method with refinery distillation bubble cap plate column

R Thahir, A Altway, SR Juliastuti - Energy reports, 2019 - Elsevier
The objective of this paper is to optimise the liquid product of pyrolysis from as much as 500
g of polypropylene (PP) plastic waste, using a fixed bed type reactor in a vacuum condition …

Microwave-responsive SiC foam@ zeolite core-shell structured catalyst for catalytic pyrolysis of plastics

Z Chen, M Monzavi, M Latifi, S Samih, J Chaouki - Environmental Pollution, 2022 - Elsevier
Catalytic pyrolysis is a promising chemical recycling technology to supplement mechanical
recycling since plastics can be broken down into monomers or converted to the required …

Ex-situ catalytic upgrading of vapors from microwave-assisted pyrolysis of low-density polyethylene with MgO

L Fan, Y Zhang, S Liu, N Zhou, P Chen, Y Liu… - Energy Conversion and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Ex-situ catalytic upgrading of vapors from microwave-assisted pyrolysis of LDPE using MgO
as the base catalyst was investigated and the effects of catalyst to reactant ratio, pyrolysis …

Removal of acetaminophen by activated carbon synthesized from spent tea leaves: equilibrium, kinetics and thermodynamics studies

S Wong, Y Lim, N Ngadi, R Mat, O Hassan, IM Inuwa… - Powder Technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Recently, pharmaceutical compounds have been identified as Contaminants of Emerging
Concern (CEC) in wastewater due to the potential hazards to human bodies, and various …