回收还是不回收? 在塑料加工过程中通过本地案例研究探索微塑料的产生
Fan Wei1, Enjing Wei1, Yuan Chen1
1State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Environmental science & technology
|November 21, 2024
概括
塑料加工产生了大量的微塑料 (MP). 这项研究强调塑料挤出是一种至关重要的,被低估的MP来源,建议改进去除技术,特别是对于初始塑料.
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:
- 微塑料 (MP) 污染是一个日益严重的全球问题.
- 研究重点是MP来源,但塑料加工仍未得到充分研究.
- 塑料加工对环境中的MP释放有很大的贡献.
研究的目的:
- 为了研究在处女塑料和废塑料挤出过程中产生微塑料.
- 确定影响塑料加工中MP形成的因素.
- 在工业环境中评估潜在的MP清除策略.
主要方法:
- 在新塑料和回收塑料的挤出过程中产生量化微塑料 (10μm-5mm).
- 分析了原料,聚合物类型和颗粒化方法对MP产量的影响.
- 使用现有技术模拟了微塑料清除效率.
主要成果:
- 处理 1 塑料产生了 2.13 × 10^59.79 × 10^7 MPs (0.0110.85 g) 的量.
- 原料,聚合物类型和颗粒化显著影响了MP的产生.
- 在2022年,塑料加工产生的全球MP产生量估计为1.34 × 10^162.63 × 10^16颗粒.
- 模拟显示高达84.35%的MP去除是可能的,对于较大的颗粒,效率更高.
结论:
- 塑料加工是微塑料污染的一个关键,被低估的来源.
- 处女塑料加工和水环颗粒化需要有针对性的MP检查和清除.
- 塑料回收产生更少和更大的MP,使其更容易去除,应该促进.
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