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Integrating environmental and economic life cycle analysis in product development: a material selection case study
Achieving sustainability by rethinking products, services and strategies is an enormous challenge currently laid upon the economic sector, in which materials selection plays a critical role. In this context, t...
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Modelling the economic and environmental performance of engineering products: a materials selection case study
Life cycle assessment (LCA) studies allow understanding all relevant processes and environmental impacts involved in the life cycle of products. However, in order to fully assess their sustainability, these st...
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Preparation, processing and characterization of biodegradable wood flour/starch-cellulose acetate compounds
A novel biodegradable material was prepared by compounding, in different proportions, pine wood flour (WF) and a commercial starch-cellulose acetate blend on a configurable co-rotating twin screw extruder. Aft...
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Tensile, Electrical and Thermal Properties of Vapor Grown Carbon Fibers Composites
This chapter presents a study of the DC electrical resistivity and thermal conductivity of VGCF filled polypropylene (PP). The electrical resistivity exhibits a characteristic percolating behavior. Because of ...
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Mechanical Properties of Vapor Grown Carbon Fibres and VGCF-Thermoplastic Composites
A review of the mechanical properties of Vapor Grown Carbon Fibers and those of VGCF-thermoplastic composites is presented in this chapter. Research into the application of sub-micron VGCF in thermoplastic com...
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The Role of Rheology in the Processing of Vapor Grown Carbon Fiber/Thermoplastic Composites
The work done on the processing of thermoplastics reinforced with sub-micron VGCF is reviewed in this chapter. It is feasible, and indeed easy, to produce these composites by means of conventional processing t...
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Derivation and Validation of Models to Predict the Properties of Mixtures of Virgin and Recycled Polymers
The theoretical basis for the prediction of the properties of mixtures of virgin and reprocessed polymers is presented in this text. The theory is developed using degradation equations, that describe the loss ...
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The effect of recycling on the properties of thermoplastics composites
The recycling of plastics waste has received an increased interest in the last few years, due to an increasing perception of the environmental impact of plastics, namely as packaging materials. In particular, the...
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Filamentous Carbon Formation on Metals and Alloys
Carbonaceous materials are often deposited on catalysts, reactor surfaces and heat exchanger tubes in the course of hydrocarbon processing operations. Such deposits, commonly referred to as “coke”, contain a v...
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The Fouling of Catalysts by Deposition of Filamentous Carbon
Catalysts tend to loose activity under the specific conditions of their operation. Consideration of this deactivation affects not only the preparation of the catalysts but also, in many cases, the design of th...
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Gasification of Carbon Deposited on Metallic Catalysts
The catalytic gasification of carbon and coal is a subject of great industrial importance, with applications in the production of fuel gases, regeneration of coked catalysts and decoking of heat transfer surfa...
