Polymer Recycling: Science, Technology and Applications / Edition 1

by John Scheirs

Overview

Provides an overview of state-of-the-art recycling techniques together with current and potential applications.

• Presents material that is normally only available in the form of conference proceedings
• Includes flow charts detailing the recycling process
• Helps identify the problems encountered in the recycling of polymers
• Presents pie graphs and photographs of commercial outlets

A comprehensive volume which will prove to be invaluable for polymer manufacturers, recyclers and marketers as well as environmental authorities and materials engineers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471970545
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	09/16/1998
Series:	Wiley Series in Polymer Science
Pages:	616
Product dimensions:	6.42(w) x 9.65(h) x 1.61(d)

About the Author

Dr. John Scheirs has worked extensively with poly and related polyesters. His early work involved studying the UV stability of PET and poly- ethylene naphthalate - in France and later he was involved with studying various industrial problems involving polyesters, such as photodegradation, annealing, crystallization behaviour, embrittlement, degradation by aminolysis, differential scanning calorimetry analysis, environmental stress cracking, hydrolysis, nucleating agents, transesterification, injection moulding of recycled PET compounds, solid-state polycondensation, desiccant drying of PET and melt stabilization of PET. More recently in the period 1998-2000, he was the technical manager for Coca-Cola Amatil's world-first PET reforming plant which converts post-consumer PET bottles into high-grade, high IV palletized PET for direct reuse in new bottles and injection and sheet moulding applications. John Scheirs is now the principal consultant with ExcelPlas Polymer Technology where he specializes in polymer recycling chemistry, formulation, processing and testing.

Table of Contents

Sorting and Separation Techniques.

Size Reduction of Recycled Plastics.

Melt Filtration of Contamination in Recycled Polymers.

Recycling of PET.

Recycling of Polyolefins.

Recycling of PVC.

Polystyrene Recycling.

Nylon Recycling.

Recycling of Engineering Thermoplastics.

Recycling of Polyurethanes.

Recycling of Polymers Composities.

Rubber Tyre Recycling.

Feedstock Recycling—Pyrolysis, Hydrogenation and Gasification.

Incineration of Plastic Waste with Energy Recovery.

Plastics Lumber Based on Recycled Polymers.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

The incentives for plastic recycling include ecological reasons, consumer demand, recycle-content legislation, and lower cost; until recently, these incentives had to be weighed against variable material composition, possibility of contamination, loss of mechanical properties due to degradation, lack of standards, and variations in supply. Now, many of these problems have been solved through such measures as the use of sophisticated automated sorting, restabilization, implementation of recyclate quality standards, and integrated collection networks. This volume describes technological advances in polymer recycling from the sorting stage through to recycling processes and end-use applications. In particular, it emphasizes the recycling of automobile tires, polyurethane foams, carpets, engineering plastics and fiber-reinforced composites, all of which had been previously thought to be hard to recycle. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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