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Recycling, Volume 4, Issue 2

June 2019 - 12 articles

Cover Story: Recycling of fiber reinforced polymer composites is essential for handling their growing mass use in aircraft, vehicles, and other energy-related applications. Pyrolysis provides one pathway for recycling by removing the polymer matrix so that the fiber reinforcement can be recovered for reuse. In this study, E-glass fibers were recovered from example automotive sheet molding compound (SMC) and end of life wind turbine blade specimens. Optimization of pyrolysis processing conditions was shown to improve recoverable fiber mechanical properties by limiting tensile strength degradation. However, pre-existing damage from 1st lifecycle production and use appeared to still limit recoverable fiber quality. View this paper
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Articles (12)

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,542 Views
13 Pages

The Influence of UV-Accelerated Aging Process on Industrial Waste Containing EPDM

  • Aline Zanchet,
  • Alexandra Masiero,
  • Fabiula Danielli Bastos de Sousa and
  • Rosmary Nichele Brandalise

One of the most efficient ways to recycle elastomeric residues from industrial processes is to incorporate them into compositions. The study of these new compositions is interesting in terms of reducing cost, the consumption of raw materials, and the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
10,204 Views
12 Pages

Economic and regulatory pressures on the global composites industry have encouraged the research and development of technology for the recycling of fiber reinforced polymer composites. Although significant advancements have been made in the recycling...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,497 Views
28 Pages

Circular economy is currently characterized by various definitions, measurement approaches, and critical analyses thereof coexisting alongside each other. Whether the concept eventually prevails or collapses will depend to some extent on our success...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,189 Views
9 Pages

In the present study, we recycled waste carpet using a vacuum-assisted resin transfer molding (VARTM) process. Three different variations of carpet composites were fabricated, namely, neat epoxy, clay-coated, and clay-infused carpet composites. The c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
12,416 Views
10 Pages

Portable Biogas Digesters for Domestic Use in Jordanian Villages

  • Ammar Alkhalidi,
  • Mohamad K. Khawaja,
  • Khaled A. Amer,
  • Audai S. Nawafleh and
  • Mohammad A. Al-Safadi

Essential energy needs are not always met in poor and rural areas of developing counties; therefore, natural energy sources are necessary to mitigate this problem. Rural areas inhabitants utilize methane as a replacement for cooking gas to reduce the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
9,755 Views
10 Pages

Coloured Plastic Bags for Kerbside Collection of Waste from Households—To Improve Waste Recycling

  • Louise Sörme,
  • Elin Voxberg,
  • Joacim Rosenlund,
  • Sara Jensen and
  • Anna Augustsson

Today, considerable amounts of resources are landfilled or incinerated, and recyclable materials such as metal, glass, plastic, and paper are disposed of as residual waste instead of being sorted into recyclable fractions. Recycling is one way of tra...

  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
16,486 Views
9 Pages

This paper reviews the partnership between the public and the private sectors in providing efficient solid waste management (SWM) services. While the responsibility of providing SWM services lies with the public sector, the sector has not been able t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,503 Views
15 Pages

A New Strategy for the Use of Post-Processing Vacuum Bags from Aerospace Supplies: Nucleating Agent to LLDPE Phase in PA6/LLDPE Blends

  • Gabriel Portilho Monteiro de Souza,
  • Erick Gabriel Ribeiro dos Anjos,
  • Larissa Stieven Montagna,
  • Orestes Ferro and
  • Fabio Roberto Passador

In the aerospace industry, many composite parts are manufactured by processes using plastic vacuum bags made of polyamide 6 (PA6) as a consumable material. This implies that after demolding the part, this plastic material should be discarded, generat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,771 Views
11 Pages

Environmental policies of the European Union aim to increase recycling and re-use of waste-streams. One of the economically most profitable ways of re-using waste is to use it as a fertilizer. In this study, recycled nitrogen fertilizers were manufac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
75 Citations
13,127 Views
10 Pages

The inappropriate disposal of millions of tons of domestically produced used cooking oil (UCO), either down domestic household drains or in landfill, causes significant detrimental effects on the environment but also constitutes the loss of a valuabl...

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