Muoviplast 4/2024

Tieteestä & Tekniikasta

Prevention

Modular design: reusable parts

Raw material: optimize material use,

Reversible joints/adhesives: facilitates part separation

Design

prioritize recycled/biosourced/ production waste components

Reversible/reusable matrix : easy component separation/recycling

minimize used resources, prevent unnecessary products

Refuse-reduce

Embedded sensors: active health monitoring

Operation

increases lifetime

Repair

Defect detection

Non-destructive testing: thermography, X-ray, ultrasounds, radar

End of Life

Original composite structure used for different purpose + significant reduction in need for material, energy and money – potential greenwashing, benefit over recycling to be verified Temperature assisted-reshaping + adapt existing composite part geometry for new applications – at research stage

Repurpose

Mechanical properties

Recycling

Cost

Sustainability

TRL

Fluidised-bed pyrolysis

Microwave pyrolysis

Solvolysis

Electrofragmentation

Pyrolysis

Mechanical recycling

Cement clinker (glass fibers) + established EoL avenue – loss of material value

Research stage recovery (carbon fibers) • calcium carbide synthesis • metallurcigal processes

Recovery

• Bannedin Finland • EU scale: evolving aregulations

Incineration + energy recovery – loss of material value – aerosol pollutants

L andfill + still economically viable – loss of material value – land degradation

Disposal

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