Recycling of natural fiber composites: Challenges and opportunities

X Zhao, K Copenhaver, L Wang, M Korey… - Resources …, 2022 - Elsevier
Natural fibers have been widely used for reinforcing polymers attributed to their sustainable
nature, excellent stiffness to weight ratio, biodegradability, and low cost compared with …

Thermal and mechanical characterization of composite materials from industrial plastic wastes and recycled nylon fibers for floor paving tiles application

MM Owen, EO Achukwu, AZ Romli, AHB Abdullah… - Waste management, 2023 - Elsevier
Industrial plastic waste is growing globally at an alarming rate and environmental pollution
from traditional landfill disposal and incineration treatments are of great concern. As a …

Separation of mixed waste plastics via magnetic levitation

P Zhao, J Xie, F Gu, N Sharmin, P Hall, J Fu - Waste Management, 2018 - Elsevier
Separation becomes a bottleneck of dealing with the enormous stream of waste plastics, as
most of the extant methods can only handle binary mixtures. In this paper, a novel method …

Circular Production, Designing, and Mechanical Testing of Polypropylene-Based Reinforced Composite Materials: Statistical Analysis for Potential Automotive and …

A Hussain, V Podgursky, D Goljandin, M Antonov… - Polymers, 2023 - mdpi.com
The circularity of polymer waste is an emerging field of research in Europe. In the present
research, the thermal, surface, mechanical, and tribological properties of polypropylene (PP) …

Surface quality improvement in machining an aluminum honeycomb by ice fixation

Y Wang, Y Gan, H Liu, L Han, J Wang, K Liu - Chinese journal of …, 2020 - Springer
A honeycomb structure is widely used in sandwich structure components in aeronautics and
astronautics; however, machining is required to reveal some of its features. In honeycomb …

Modify the injection machine mechanism to enhance the recycling of plastic waste mixed with MHD nanoparticles

AM Abed, A AlArjani, LF Seddek, S ElAttar - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Recycling plastic waste (RPW) benefits the ecological footprint. Therefore, the authors test
its mixing by magnetic hydrodynamic MHD nanofluid materials such as alumina in two sizes …

Co‐reinforcing sustainable graphenes from thermoset/thermoplastic wastes for enhanced polypropylene matrix composites in automotive engineering

R Yahyapour, H Baskan‐Bayrak, YE Yagcı… - Polymer …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Talc is widely used in the automotive industry as a primary reinforcement in part
manufacturing. However, its relatively high density, low impact strength, and difficulty in …

Facile preparation and characterization of short-fiber and talc reinforced poly (lactic acid) hybrid composite with in situ reactive compatibilizers

P Nanthananon, M Seadan, S Pivsa-Art, H Hamada… - Materials, 2018 - mdpi.com
Hybrid composites of fillers and/or fibers reinforced polymer was generally produced by
masterbatch dilution technique. In this work, the simplified preparation was introduced for …

Effect and optimization of photochemical machining process parameters for manufacturing array of micro-hole

D Agrawal, D Kamble - Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical …, 2019 - Springer
The stainless steel-304 is used in various surgical instruments due to its low carbon content
and better corrosion resistance. SS-304 is machined using photochemical machining …

The Influence of Fiber Treatment and Matrix Type on the Impregnation Quality of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastics

C Budiyantoro, H Sosiati, KA Syahputra… - Semesta …, 2023 - journal.umy.ac.id
One of the main issues with Carbon Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastics (CFRTP) is the poor
impregnation quality of the matrix on carbon fiber due to the high viscosity of the …