Morphological characteristics of waste polyethylene/polypropylene plastics during pyrolysis and representative morphological signal characterizing pyrolysis stages

Waste Management

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 327-339

  Wang, H ^a   Chen, D ^a   Yuan, G ^a   Ma, X ^a   Dai, X ^b  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Tongji University   (China)

Author keywords

Bubble ratio; Digital image processing; Four stages; Morphological characteristics; Pyrolysis; Waste PE PP plastics

Indexed keywords

ASH DEPOSITION; BR-CURVES; BUBBLE RATIO; DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING SOFTWARE; INFRA-RED CAMERAS; MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; PHASE CHANGING BEHAVIOR; PIXEL AREAS; PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; PYROLYSIS EXPERIMENTS; PYROLYSIS PROCESS; QUANTITATIVE PARAMETERS; REACTOR DESIGNS; SHARP INCREASE; TESTING SAMPLES; WASTE POLYETHYLENES;

DROPS; ELASTOMERS; EXPERIMENTS; GRANULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MELTING; PHOTOGRAPHY; POLYPROPYLENES; PYROLYSIS; THERMOPLASTICS;

PLASTIC PRODUCTS;

PLASTIC; POLYETHYLENE; POLYPROPYLENE;

BUBBLE; DECOMPOSITION; DIGITAL IMAGE; IMAGE PROCESSING; PLASTIC; POLYMER; PYROLYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECOMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FILM; IMAGE PROCESSING; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROLYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME;

HOT TEMPERATURE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INCINERATION; INFRARED RAYS; PHOTOGRAPHY; POLYETHYLENE; POLYPROPYLENES; REFUSE DISPOSAL;

EID: 84874297208     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: 18792456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2012.10.013     Document Type: Article

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