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Chemical Depolymerization of Waste PET Bottles in Bubble Column Reactor for Sustainable and Thermal Installation of Cement Mortar Composites

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Material science

Abstract

Plastic is one of the most frequently utilized materials on the world. At the same time, most of this plastic will turn into waste. The recycling processes are not enough, and creating new uses for this plastic waste is an optimum solution. The current research utilized a three-phase bubble column reactor in the PET depolymerization process. Depolymerized PET (DPET) powder was utilized for replacing sand with four different percentages of DPET of 1, 3, 6, and 9% to improve several physical characteristics of cement mortar composites. According to the results, the use of a three-phase bubble column reactor in the depolymerization of waste PET reduced the processing time to less than one hour. The thermal conductivity and the density of the mortar decreased when replacing the sand with DPET powder. This effect rises with an increase in the DPET content. The results also demonstrate that the mortar with 9% DPET particles was 15.45 percent lighter than that without DPET particles. The thermal conductivity of the mortar with 9% DPET was 18.27 percent lower than the mortar without DPET particles.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2022.119943.5382

Keywords

Depolymerization, PET, thermal conductivity, density, porosity, Mortar

Authors

First Name

Mohammed

Last Name

Alzuhairi

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Affiliation

Department of Materials Engineering, University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq.

Email

mohammed.a.alzuhairi@uotechnology.edu.iq

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Orcid

0000-0002-6370-6727

First Name

Sarmad Imad

Last Name

Ibrahim

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Affiliation

Department of Materials Engineering, University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq.

Email

sarmad@gmail.com

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First Name

Amjed M.

Last Name

Hameed

MiddleName

Majeed

Affiliation

Department of Materials Engineering, University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq.

Email

amjed.majeed.hameed@gmail.com

City

Baghdad

Orcid

0000-0002-3552-5996

Volume

65

Article Issue

13

Related Issue

37459

Issue Date

2022-12-01

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2022-02-03

Publish Date

2022-12-01

Page Start

371

Page End

377

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/article_230837.html

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230,837

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Original Article

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297

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Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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Chemical Depolymerization of Waste PET Bottles in Bubble Column Reactor for Sustainable and Thermal Installation of Cement Mortar Composites

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22 Jan 2023