Hyperspectral imaging applied to demolition waste recycling: innovative approach for product quality control

Innovative Separation and Quality Control Strategies Applied to Mixed Polyolefins Waste

The idea to write this Special Issue originated as I am involved in the running European FP7 Collaborative Project “Magnetic Sorting and Ultrasound Sensor Technologies for Production of High Purity Secondary Polyolefins from Waste (W2Plastics)” Grant Agreement No. 212782, specifically addressed to develop a number of novel concepts and an innovative operative approach finalized for recovering h...

Reuse and Recycling of Construction and Demolition Waste

The Use of HyperSpectral Imaging for Quality Control in the MDS-based Recycling Process of Polyolefins

The separation of pure polyolefins, polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP), from post-consumer plastic waste is of increasing interest in the last years according to market requirements for their further recycling. In this paper new analytical inspection strategies, based on HyperSpectral Imaging (HSI) in the VIS-NIR and NIR fields (400-1000 and 1000-1700 nm, respectively), have been investig...

Willingness of end users to pay for e-waste recycling

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The sheer volume of electrical and electronic waste (e-waste) has presently been generated in Vietnam, posing a growing concern regarding its impact can have on the environment and human health. Therefore, the need for developing policies and regulations towards the environmentally sound management of e-waste is becoming crucial. Although the municipa...

Fuzzy concepts applied to food product quality control: A review

Fuzzy logic is now a wide field of study and different tools have been developed over the last 10 years. Its implementation in food quality control for the food industry has been highlighted by several authors that have focused on different applications designed specifically for this task. This is especially true in the case of taking into account the reasoning process, expressed in linguistic ...