Recycling of polymers from plastic packaging materials using the dissolution-reprecipitation technique

Polymer Bulletin

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 449-465

  Achilias, D S ^a   Giannoulis, A ^a   Papageorgiou, G Z ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dissolution reprecipitation technique; Plastic packaging; Polymer recycling

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE MOLECULAR WEIGHT; BEFORE AND AFTER; CRYSTALLINITIES; DISSOLUTION TEMPERATURE; DISSOLUTION-REPRECIPITATION; DISSOLUTION/REPRECIPITATION TECHNIQUE; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; MOLECULAR PROPERTIES; PLASTIC MATERIALS; PLASTIC PACKAGING; PLASTIC PACKAGING MATERIALS; POLY(ETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE); POLY(VINYL CHLORIDE); POLYMER CONCENTRATIONS; POLYMER RECYCLING; RECYCLED GRADES; RECYCLING PROCESS; RECYCLING PROGRAMS; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; THERMAL PROPERTIES; VISCOSIMETRY; WASTE PLASTIC;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DEGRADATION; DISSOLUTION; ETHYLENE; GLASS TRANSITION; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MELTING POINT; PACKAGING MATERIALS; PLASTICS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POLYMER MELTS; POLYMERS; POLYSTYRENES; POLYVINYL CHLORIDES; RECOVERY; SOAPS (DETERGENTS); THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

RECYCLING;

EID: 68449099936     PISSN: 01700839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00289-009-0104-5     Document Type: Article

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