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Organizational issues for disseminating recycling technologies of carbon fiber-reinforced plastics in the Japanese industrial landscape
Carbon fiber-reinforced plastics (CFRP) are used for structural materials in the aircraft and automotive industries due to their lightweight and high...
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Investigation of using RFID for cure monitoring of glass fiber-reinforced plastics
Fiber composite components play an important role in the turnaround in energy policy as well as in stop** global warming. Therefore, it is...
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Product characteristics and heat of reaction of municipal solid waste in pyrolysis and gasification at low temperatures
This study examines the pyrolysis and gasification characteristics of municipal solid waste (MSW) via thermogravimetric analysis and laboratory-scale...
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Devulcanized Tire Rubber–Waste Plastic Compounds: A Solution to Improve Storage Stability of Plastic-Modified Bitumen
Recycled and post-consumers waste plastics have recently emerged as potential polymer modifiers of bitumen with the goal of reducing costs and...
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Bioplastic: Unravelling the Sustainable Approach for Petroleum Plastic
Elevating environmental issues and health hazards pertaining to plastic wastes utilization has attracted researchers to explore novel and sustainable... -
Development, properties and potential applications of high-energy fuel briquettes incorporating coal dust, biowastes and post-consumer plastics
The conversion of waste to energy through briquetting has the potential for providing energy, while simultaneously reducing wastes and their...
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Effect of Input Power and Process Time on Conversion of Pure and Mixed Plastics into Fuels Through Microwave-Metal Interaction Pyrolysis
AbstractThis study investigated the effect of input power and process time on microwave-metal interaction pyrolysis of pure plastics (PS, PP, LDPE)...
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Optimizing bioplastics translation
Plastics are integral to the modern economy. They are lightweight, strong, flexible and are used in all sorts of products in almost every industry....
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One-Pot Production of Sugarcane Bagasse Polysaccharide-Based Thermoplastics via Pretreatment and Successive Transesterification Using 1-Ethyl-3-methylimidazolium Acetate
To alleviate the severe environmental problems such as global warming caused by carbon dioxide emissions from the large-mass production and...
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On Determining the Elasticity Modulus of Moso Bamboo Based on the Static Bend Test Results by Analogy with Wood and Engineering Plastics
The application of bamboo in the practice of modern construction is considered. The physical and mechanical properties of bamboo, the peculiarities... -
Evaluation of the mechanical properties and deformability of metal-based composite sheets made of thin stainless-steel sheets and carbon fiber reinforced plastics
Ultra-lightweight sheets with excellent deformability are required for the development of new air vehicles, as well as greener conventional vehicles....
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Jig separation of crushed plastics: the effects of particle geometry on separation efficiency
Secondary resources (i.e., wastes) contain a wide variety of materials (e.g., plastics, metals, and wood) of various sizes and shapes that complicate...
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Load-Bearing Capacity of Damaged Concrete Beams with Basalt Plastic Fittings, Reinforced with External Fiber-Reinforced Plastics
The article presents the test results of concrete beams reinforced with basalt fiber polymer and carbon fiber plastic brought to the ultimate state... -
Combatting Plastic Pollution in Natural Environments: Innovative Solutions Offered by Microbes
Plastic pollution is one of the most bothersome issues mankind is facing in the modern era because we cannot completely do away with the plastics,... -
Weathering of Polymers and Plastic Materials
This book presents the state of the art on the weathering of polymers and plastic materials in outdoor applications, comprising natural weathering,...
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Microalgae in Bioplastic Production: A Comprehensive Review
The current era of industrialization includes a constantly increasing demand for plastic products, but because plastics are rarely recycled and are...
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Ecologically derived waste management of conventional plastics
The accumulation of plastic waste is a pressing environmental problem, growing hand-in-hand with the rising production and consumption of consumer...
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Environmental Aspects
Plastics are an important material in our economy, essential in everyday lives. However, they have a high carbon footprint related to their... -
Plastic Materials and Additives
Although all plastics are polymers, not all polymers are plastics, due to the addition of specific additives in order to provide the materials with... -
Practical ways to recycle plastic: current status and future aspects
With sky-rocketing demand and unrestricted global production, plastics have become an inseparable part of daily human life and the circular economy...