Sustainable recycling technologies for thermoplastic polymers and their composites: A review of the state of the art

P Jagadeesh, S Mavinkere Rangappa… - Polymer …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This review article discusses the environmental and economic effects of recycling, as well as
sustainable thermoplastic polymer recycling technologies. Several researchers have utilized …

Pyrolysis for plastic waste management: An engineering perspective

T Xayachak, N Haque, R Parthasarathy, S King… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The pervasion of plastic and the inadequacies of the current plastic waste management
processes are the premise of various studies that aimed to find sustainable solutions to the …

Microcrystalline paraffin wax, biogas, carbon particles and aluminum recovery from metallised food packaging plastics using pyrolysis, mechanical and chemical …

S Yousef, J Eimontas, K Zakarauskas… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
Metallised food packaging plastics waste (MFPW) is the most complex part of plastic waste
ever with poor recyclability. In order to close the circle loop of MFPWs and to increase their …

Energy recovery from high density polyethylene plastic via pyrolysis with upgrading of the product by a novel nano MIL-53 (Cu) derived@ Y zeolite catalyst using …

SAHS Mousavi, SM Sadrameli… - Fuel Processing …, 2022 - Elsevier
Pyrolysis of plastics is an economical method to recover valuable fuels from waste sources.
In this study, the response surface methodology is adopted to model the behavior for the …

Recent advances in catalytic pyrolysis of municipal plastic waste for the production of hydrocarbon fuels

S Pal, A Kumar, AK Sharma, PK Ghodke, S Pandey… - Processes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Currently, the resources of fossil fuels, such as crude oil, natural gas, and coal, are depleting
day by day due to increasing energy demands. Nowadays, plastic items have witnessed a …

Review of recycling methods of thermoplastic composite materials

YS Türker, F Öztürk, Y Öz - Polymer-Plastics Technology and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Usage of thermoplastic composites with low densities is increasing, with lightness coming to
the fore especially in the aerospace industry while various sectors like automotive …

Pyrolysis kinetic study of polylactic acid

Z Alhulaybi, I Dubdub, M Al-Yaari, A Almithn… - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Polylactic acid (PLA) is a biodegradable polymer and is mainly used in the textile and food
packaging fields. The aim of this work is to build knowledge on the kinetics of the pyrolysis of …

Investigating waste plastic pyrolysis kinetic parameters by genetic algorithm coupled with thermogravimetric analysis

R Pan, JVF Duque, G Debenest - Waste and Biomass Valorization, 2021 - Springer
Pyrolysis of waste plastic (WP) is a promising method to solve the plastic pollution issue. WP
is mainly composed of polyethylene (PE). Moreover, the products of waste polyethylene …

Developing a combustion-driven reactor for waste conversion

JVF Duque, FLF Bittencourt, MF Martins, G Debenest - Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
One of the problems of the scalability to industrial applications of pyrolysis reactors is the
high electric energy consumption. In this study, a novel device in which a self-sustaining …

Molten-Phase Unsaturation Enhanced Pyrolytic Upcycling of Polyolefins

H Radhakrishnan, VS Cecon, MK Islam, I Coffman… - Energy & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Fast pyrolysis is a robust deconstruction technology for chemically upcycling waste plastics
without losing significant carbon to noncondensable gases. However, fast pyrolysis of …