Additive Manufacturing for Plastic Recycling: Efforts in Boosting A Circular Eco

Publisher Description

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date discussion of breakthroughs on additive manufacturing for plastic material recycling to boost a circular economy. It offers new ideas of combining/hybridizing processing methods that work as a source of information for manufacturers in making new and strategic product development plans. Additive Manufacturing for Plastic Recycling: Efforts in Boosting a Circular Economy provides a critical, comprehensive, methodological, and strong state-of-the-art work on the processing of thermoplastic and thermosetting along with new directions and applications. It describes the common and hybrid approaches of recycling processes and includes theoretical and practical ideas of combining/hybridizing processing methods with the use of fused deposition modelling, which is one of the low-cost additive manufacturing techniques. The book also discusses mechanical twin-screw extrusion followed by case studies for developing hybrid composite structures for biomedical and structural applications. Recent innovations in melt processing for recycling and the fundaments, process parameters investigations, and applications for new product development are also presented. This book is a first-hand reference source of information for academic scholars and commercial manufacturers for making strategic development plans for new product development.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Circular Economy and Recycling Plastics. 2. Additive Manufacturing for Circular Economy of Recycled Plastic. 3. Hybrid Mechanical and Chemical Recycling of Plastics. 4. Primary and Secondary Melt Processing for Plastics. 5. Fused Deposition Modeling as Secondary Recycling Process for the Preparation of Sustainable Structures. 6. Tertiary Recycling of Plastic Solid Waste for Additive Manufacturing. 7. Economic and Environmental Justification. 8. Twin-Screw Extrusion for Processing of Thermoplastics in Biomedical Scaffolding Applications. 9. Case Study for the Development of a Hybrid Composite Structure of Thermosetting and Thermoplastics. 10. Hybrid Feedstock Filament Processing for the Preparation of Composite Structures in Heritage Repair.

Details