通过闭环和开环循环回收,评估聚乙烯二甲瓶的生命周期和循环性
Sumonrat Chairat1, Shabbir H Gheewala1
1Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand; Centre of Excellence on Energy Technology and Environment, Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation, Bangkok, Thailand.
Environmental research
|July 30, 2023
概括
聚乙烯二甲 (PET) 的回收利用,特别是瓶对瓶的回收利用,显著减少了对环境的影响,并提高了材料循环性. 更高的收集率和回收内容对于有效的PET回收和实现循环经济至关重要.
科学领域:
- 环境科学 环境科学
- 材料科学 材料科学 材料科学
- 化学工程是化学工程的重要组成部分.
背景情况:
- 聚乙烯二甲 (PET) 的回收对于塑料废物循环经济至关重要.
- 瓶到瓶和瓶到纤维的回收途径是PET废物管理的关键策略.
- 生命周期评估 (LCA) 和材料循环指标 (MCI) 是评估回收可持续性的重要工具.
研究的目的:
- 评估瓶至瓶和瓶至纤维PET回收的环境影响和材料循环.
- 在PET回收的LCA中比较不同的分配方法 (替代,回收含量,经济).
- 确定最佳的回收策略,以保持PET材料的质量和价值.
主要方法:
- 使用生命周期评估 (LCA) 来评估环境影响.
- 材料循环度指标 (MCI) 用于量化材料循环度.
- 为了分析PET回收系统,应用了三种分配方法 (替代,回收内容,经济).
主要成果:
- 聚乙烯回收利用,特别是瓶对瓶回收利用,可以减少60%的温室气体排放,85%的化石资源稀缺.
- 瓶对瓶的回收利用显示,在替代和回收材料方法下,环境损害低于原始PET.
- 瓶至纤维回收始终优于处女聚纤维,MCI分数表明高循环性.
结论:
- 为了保持PET的质量和价值,首选的是瓶对瓶的回收利用.
- 增加的收集率和回收的内容大大提高了瓶对瓶回收的有效性.
- 瓶至纤维回收提供了高循环性,特别是当使用寿命终止回收实施时.
相关概念视频
Types of Step-Growth Polymers: Polyesters
2.3K
The introduction of polyesters has brought major development to the textile industry. The wrinkle-free behavior of polyester blends has eliminated the need for starching and ironing clothes.
Polyesters are commonly prepared from terephthalic acid and ethylene glycol; the crude product is known as poly(ethylene terephthalate) or PET. However, polyesters are synthesized industrially by transesterification of dimethyl terephthalate with ethylene glycol at 150 °C. The two reactants and the...
Polyesters are commonly prepared from terephthalic acid and ethylene glycol; the crude product is known as poly(ethylene terephthalate) or PET. However, polyesters are synthesized industrially by transesterification of dimethyl terephthalate with ethylene glycol at 150 °C. The two reactants and the...
2.3K
Free-Radical Chain Reaction and Polymerization of Alkenes
7.9K
The conversion of alkenes to macromolecules called polymers is a reaction of high commercial importance. The structure of the polymer is defined by a repeating unit, while the terminal groups are considered insignificant. The average degree of polymerization represents the number of repeating units in the polymer molecule and is denoted by the subscript n.
7.9K
Recycling Endosomes and Transcytosis
2.7K
The recycling endosome, also known as the endosomal recycling compartment (ERC), is a part of the slow-recycling process of the endocytic pathway. Molecules internalized through receptor-mediated endocytosis are either degraded in the lysosomes or are recycled to the plasma membrane through the fast- or slow-recycling route.
The recycling endosome is not a single organelle but an extensively tubulated network of recycling pathways. It functions in storing molecules or transporting them across...
The recycling endosome is not a single organelle but an extensively tubulated network of recycling pathways. It functions in storing molecules or transporting them across...
2.7K
Olefin Metathesis Polymerization: Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization (ROMP)
2.6K
Ring-opening metathesis polymerization or ROMP involves strained cycloalkenes as starting materials. The mechanism of ROMP proceeds by reacting cycloalkene with Grubbs catalyst to give metallacyclobutane intermediate which undergoes a ring-opening reaction to form new carbene. The new carbene reacts with another molecule of cycloalkene. Repetition of these steps leads to the formation of an unsaturated open-chain polymer product. All these steps are reversible, however, relieving the ring...
2.6K
Polymer Classification: Crystallinity
2.9K
Unlike ionic or small covalent molecules, polymers do not form crystalline solids due to the diffusion limitations of their long-chain structures. However, polymers contain microscopic crystalline domains separated by amorphous domains.
Crystalline domains are the regions where polymer chains are aligned in an orderly manner and held together in proximity by intermolecular forces. For example, chains in the crystalline domains of polyethylene and nylon are bound together by van der Waals...
Crystalline domains are the regions where polymer chains are aligned in an orderly manner and held together in proximity by intermolecular forces. For example, chains in the crystalline domains of polyethylene and nylon are bound together by van der Waals...
2.9K
Polymer Classification: Architecture
2.8K
Polymers are classified as linear or branched on the basis of their chain architecture. The polymer chains in linear polymers have a long chain-like structure with minimal to no branching at all. Even if a polymer features large substituent groups on the monomer, which appear as branches to the skeleton, it is not considered a branched polymer. A branched polymer contains secondary polymer chains that arise from the main polymer chain. The branching occurs when the polymer growth shifts from...
2.8K


