Separation of packaging plastics by froth flotation in a continuous pilot plant

Waste Management

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2209-2215

  Carvalho, Teresa ^a   Durão, Fernando ^a   Ferreira, Célia ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE TREATMENT; CONCENTRATE GRADE; CONTINUOUS PILOT PLANTS; FLOTATION CELL; MINERAL PROCESSING; MINING COMPANIES; POST-CONSUMER PET; RECYCLING INDUSTRY; REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE; SURFACTANT ADSORPTION;

ADSORPTION; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ELASTOMERS; PILOT PLANTS; PLASTICITY; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POLYSTYRENES; POLYVINYL CHLORIDES; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

FROTH FLOTATION;

ALKYL GROUP; FOAMING AGENT; PLASTIC; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE; POLYSTYRENE; POLYVINYLCHLORIDE; SURFACTANT;

ADSORPTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PLASTIC; SEPARATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE TREATMENT;

ADSORPTION KINETICS; ARTICLE; CELL RECYCLE REACTOR; CLEANING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FLOTATION; FOAMING; HIGH TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; PACKAGING MATERIAL; PH MEASUREMENT; PLASTIC INDUSTRY; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCT RECOVERY; RECYCLING; RESEARCH PRIORITY; SCAVENGING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SIMULATION; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

ADSORPTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MATERIALS TESTING; PLASTICS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POLYMERS; PORTUGAL; PRODUCT PACKAGING; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS; TEMPERATURE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77957751131     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2010.05.023     Document Type: Article

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