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Bulletin of the National Research Centre, 2021 Background The world today is faced with the humongous challenge of removing the numerous plastic wastes in our environment. Efforts in the removal or remediation of these materials from the ecosystem are presently at the budding stage.
Chidi Edbert Duru +2 more
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Recycling, 2023 Water bottles are widely used in the Gulf countries. One estimate indicates that the water bottle usage in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) may reach up to 250 L of water per person annually.
Wisam Abu Jadayil, Eman Aqil
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The behaviour of remolded Batu Pahat soft clay with different OCR values under cyclic loading [PDF]
, 2017 The Batu Pahat Soft Clay, (BPSC) of Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, (UTHM) were low in shear strength, bearing capacity, and suffer large settlements when subjected to loading.
Izzudini, Muhammad Arif Azraei +1 more
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Characterization of Liquid Produced from Catalytic Pyrolysis of Mixed Polystyrene and Polyethylene Terephthalate Plastic [PDF]
Engineering and Technology Journal, 2018 Plastic wastes accumulation increased each year in the environment. Plastics types are different such as polystyrene (PS), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polypropylene (PP), low-density polyethylene (LDPE), high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and ...
R.S. Almukhtar, S.I.H. Abduallah
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Current Knowledge on Polyethylene Terephthalate Degradation by Genetically Modified Microorganisms
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2021 The global production of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is estimated to reach 87.16 million metric tons by 2022. After a single use, a remarkable part of PET is accumulated in the natural environment as plastic waste.
Aneta K. Urbanek +2 more
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Durability properties of concrete made with polyethylene terepthalate and polypropylene as replacement of fine aggregate [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) and Polypropylene (PP) is mostly used materials for making items like water bottles, food containers and many other plastic products in all fields of life. Due to the scarcity of natural aggregates for making concrete, it
Raju Suram +2 more
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Nanomaterials, 2021 Plastic bottles are generally recycled by remolding them into numerous products. In this study, waste from plastic bottles was used to fabricate recycled polyethylene terephthalate (r-PET) nanofibers via the electrospinning technique, and high ...
Nadir Hussain +7 more
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Rapid, 5 min, low temperature aqueous platinization for plastic substrates for dye-sensitized solar cells [PDF]
, 2019 This paper reports a rapid (5 min), low temperature (120 C) method to platinize the counter electrodes of dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC) devices. This new method uses aqueous solutions and is based on chemical bath deposition of an activating Pd ...
Anthony, RVE +6 more
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Alkaline Depolymerization of Polyethylene Terephthalate Plastic Waste
Tikrit Journal of Engineering Sciences, 2015 Depolymerization reaction is considered one of the most significant ways of converting waste polyethylene terephthalate in to terephthalic acid. The water polyethylene terephthalate bottle waste was collected from different places in Baghdad.
Ammar S. Abbas
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Química Nova, 2009 In this work it is proposed a simple and versatile undergraduate chemical experiment in polymer and environmental technology based on the process of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) hydrolysis.
Marcelo G. Rosmaninho +5 more
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