Recover : regenerating the strength and value of glass fibres thermally recycled from end-of-life GRP composites
Thomason, James and Yang, Liu and Jenkins, Peter and Saez Rodriguez, Eduardo and Nagel, Ulf (2016) Recover : regenerating the strength and value of glass fibres thermally recycled from end-of-life GRP composites. In: Refocus Recycling Summit & Expo, 2016-04-25 - 2016-04-27, Florida.
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Abstract
The recovery and reuse of end-of-life GRP in an environmentally friendly, cost-effective manner is one of the most important challenges facing the polymer composites industry. A number of processes for recycling GRP are available or under development. However, nearly all options deliver recycled glass fibres which are not cost-performance competitive due to the huge drop in performance of recycled glass fibre compared to its original state. A breakthrough in the regeneration of recycled glass fibre performance has the potential to totally transform the economics of recycling such GRP composites. This presentation will review the status of the ReCoVeR project which is focussed on the enabling cost-effective regeneration of the performance and value of glass fibres obtained from thermal recycling of end-of-life GRP and GRP manufacturing waste. Highlights of our latest results will be presented with emphasis on our breakthrough treatments to regenerate the properties of thermally conditioned glass fibres.
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Thomason, James ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Item type: | Conference or Workshop Item(Speech) |
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ID code: | 56335 |
Keywords: | composites, recycling, glass fibres, Chemistry, Ceramics and Composites, Polymers and Plastics, Surfaces, Coatings and Films, Materials Chemistry |
Subjects: | Science > Chemistry |
Department: | Faculty of Engineering > Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering |
Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
Date deposited: | 10 May 2016 10:32 |
Last modified: | 27 Jan 2021 10:16 |
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URI: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/56335 |
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