Recent advances in polyvinyl chloride (PVC) recycling

Z Ait‐Touchente, M Khellaf, G Raffin… - Polymers for …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) recycling is crucial for mitigating the environmental impact of PVC
wastes, which take decades to decompose in landfills. This review examines the current …

Solidification and utilization of municipal solid waste incineration ashes: Advancements in alkali-activated materials and stabilization techniques, a review

M Jamalimoghadam, AH Vakili, I Keskin… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Researchers are actively investigating methodologies for the detoxification and utilization of
Municipal Solid Waste Incineration Bottom Ash (MSWIBA) and Fly Ash (MSWIFA), given their …

[HTML][HTML] The co-combustion of torrefied municipal solid waste and coal in bubbling fluidised bed combustor under atmospheric and elevated pressure

JA Lasek, K Głód, K Słowik - Renewable Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Municipal solid waste (MSW) is considered a valuable energy source that can be applied as
a secondary (co-combustion) or even primary fuel in a power plant. Torrefaction of MSW led …

Integrated torrefaction-extrusion system for solid fuel pellet production from mixed fiber-plastic wastes: Techno-economic analysis and life cycle assessment

SS Kolapkar, S Zinchik, P Burli, Y Lin… - Fuel Processing …, 2022 - Elsevier
The world is witnessing an unprecedented generation and accumulation of fiber-plastic
wastes resulting in various challenges due to inconsistency, waste-stream heterogeneity …

Bypassing energy barriers in fiber-polymer torrefaction

Z Xu, SS Kolapkar, S Zinchik, E Bar-Ziv… - Frontiers in Energy …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The amount of waste generation has been increasing with a significant amount being
landfilled. These non-recyclable wastes contain large number of fiber and plastic wastes …

A single-step upcycling of PVC-containing municipal solid waste compositions for greener chemicals and clean solids as fuel or oil absorbent

X Chen, X Bai - Journal of the Energy Institute, 2023 - Elsevier
Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) containing municipal solid waste (MSW) streams are difficult to
recycle and mostly landfilled due to various detrimental effects PVC causes to waste …

Kinetic study of paper waste thermal degradation

Z Xu, SS Kolapkar, S Zinchik, E Bar-Ziv… - Polymer Degradation …, 2021 - Elsevier
Paper waste generation has been rising in the past decades, with a large amount being
landfilled. These paper wastes can be great energy sources after thermal treatment since …

Integration of thermal treatment and extrusion by compounding for processing various wastes for energy applications

SS Kolapkar, S Zinchik, Z Xu, AG McDonald… - Energy & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Waste generation is increasing, and a significant portion of the wastes is being landfilled.
Torrefaction of such wastes to produce clean fuels is one of the potential solutions. This …

The application of multiple advanced chloride removal methods to synthesized Friedel's salt and municipal solid waste incineration bottom ash

H Matsumoto, M Takaoka - Waste Management, 2022 - Elsevier
To recycle municipal solid waste incineration bottom ash as a cement raw material, it is
important to reduce the Cl concentration in the ash. However, the reduction of chlorides by …

Some aspects of the thermochemical route for the valorization of plastic wastes, part I: reduction of iron oxides by polyvinyl chloride (PVC)

N Kanari, NE Menad, LO Filippov, S Shallari, E Allain… - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
The mass production of synthetic plastics began in the last century and today they have
become one of the most abundant man-made materials. The disposal or the beneficiation of …