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Assessment of plastic waste materials degradation through near infrared spectroscopy

Publikationstyp
Journal Article
Date Issued
2018-12
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Alassali, Ayah  
Fiore, Silvia  
Kuchta, Kerstin  orcid-logo
Institut
Circular Resource Engineering and Management V-11  
TORE-URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11420/2399
Journal
Waste management  
Start Page
71
End Page
81
Citation
Waste management (New York, N.Y.) (82): 71-81 (2018-12)
Publisher DOI
10.1016/j.wasman.2018.10.010
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85054918325
Plastic waste is a relevant challenge for waste management sector and further technological means have to be urgently researched. The evaluation of plastic waste quality through non-destructive, cost-effective and mature technologies could be without any doubt a key issue. This study is aimed at the assessment of Near Infrared (NIR) spectroscopy for the generation of global degradation-prediction models able to forecast plastic ageing. The degradation of Polyethylene terephthalate (PET), Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS), Polypropylene (PP) and Polyethylene (PE) was achieved by thermal ageing (at 85 °C, 105 °C and 120 °C and durations ranging from 4 to 504 h), to simulate environmental outdoor conditions. Experimental data obtained for each plastic material were elaborated through partial least square (PLS) regression to obtain empirical models. For all inspected plastic materials, a good correspondence between the variation in absorbance units and the change in chemical bonds vibrations was observed. The PLS models were afterwards calibrated (taking into account the different ageing conditions; first separately then including the ageing factors combined). A high accuracy (R2 equal to 0.85-1.00) was observed in predicting ageing for PET and ABS, while the correspondence showed a 30% decrease for PE and PP. This study proves that NIR spectroscopy can be recommended as an effective tool to investigate plastics degradation, with some limitations for specific polymers that need further investigations.
Subjects
Ageing
Degradation
Model
Plastic
Recyclability
Waste
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