recycling

The technology of recycling of polymer-coated paper waste is described. Physical and chemical properties of fibers obtained from wallpaper wastes and from their derivative compositions were investigated. A special crusher with primary and secondary grinding stages and with a section for separating paper fibers from polymer coating was designed. Industrial trials of cellulose obtained from wallpaper wastes for the asbestos cement sheets manufacturing were held. Its impact on the quality and physical and mechanical properties of sheets was shown.

In the present work, the pyrolysis of polypropylene and polyethylene was evaluated with and without the addition of niobium oxide as catalyst by means of thermogravimetric analysis and experiments in a glass reactor. The results revealed that niobium oxide performed well in the pyrolysis of both polypropylene and polyethylene separately. For the mixture of polypropylene with polyethylene, the catalyst reduced the pyrolysis time.