Abstract The present study is dedicated to investigate the kinetic analysis for catalytic co-pyrolysis of palm kernel shell (PKS) and polyethylene waste (HDPE) mixtures with bifunctional HZSM-5 mussel (MS) catalyst. Artificial neural network (ANN) modeling through 17 models based on functions reaction mechanism denoted as chemical reactions, diffusion nucleation growth interfacial phase reactio...

One of the major challenges in recycling plastics is removal undesired volatile components from polymeric phase, which may reduce process efficiency and negatively affect product quality. Accordingly, industry employs a broad range degassing techniques, often depends on diffusion coefficient—a measure mass transport phases. The aim this study was to develop practically feasible experimental app...

The increasing amount of marine plastic waste poses challenges including, not only the collection, but also subsequent recyclability plastic. An artificial accelerated weathering procedure was developed, which modelled environment and investigated weathered non-weathered PET. Marine conditions were simulated for poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) bottle material high-density polyethylene (HDPE)...

The focus of this research is to investigate the potential of using exfoliated graphene nanoplatelets, GNP, as the multifunctional reinforcement in fabricating polymer/GNP nanocomposites and then explore their prospective applications in bipolar plates for polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells. Firstly, high density polyethylene (HDPE)/GNP nanocomposites were fabricated using the conven...

After tumor resection, bone reconstruction such as skull base reconstruction using interconnected porous structure is absolutely necessary. In this study, porous scaffolds for bone reconstruction were prepared using heat-pressing and salt-leaching methods. High-density polyethylene (HDPE) and poly(ethylene-co-acrylic acid) (PEAA) were chosen as the polymer composites for producing a porous scaf...

High-density poly-ethylene (HDPE) is a nonbiodegradable recyclable plastic which widely utilized in single use packaging applications. Consequently, it constitutes significant amount of waste found landfills. From literature, has been shown that parts produced using composites HDPE with carbohydrate-based polymers, such as thermoplastic starch (TPS), experience mechanical degradation through hy...

Geosynthetic separation boxes made from recycled polymeric materials were designed to increase the waste landfill amount and develop the hydraulic performance in steep slope sides in the waste landfills. To evaluate the advantages of these geosynthetic separation boxes, index tests were conducted in order to compare the geonet composites and geosynthetic separation boxes. The tensile strength r...