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Depolymerization Recycling
Plastics Circularity
Series: De Gruyter STEM
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Plastics, structural polymers made from monomers, are ubiquitous in modern life and have unique benefits. At their end of life, they must be reused or recycled in ways not yet implemented today. In many cases, the polymerisation process can be efficiently reversed via depolymerisation recycling to...
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Plastics, structural polymers made from monomers, are ubiquitous in modern life and have unique benefits. At their end of life, they must be reused or recycled in ways not yet implemented today. In many cases, the polymerisation process can be efficiently reversed via depolymerisation recycling to regain monomers at the original quality level.
As such, depolymerisation is a key circularity enabler for some classes of polymers, especially when crosslinked or used in composites. Depolymerization Recycling introduces the energy, CO2 emission and waste stream dimensions for recycling. It reviews the respective polymer science and introduces the processing technologies for industrial scaling. All these concepts are explored in practical examples across polymer classes and different plastics applications.
The economics of depolymerisation recycling are introduced, together with life cycle analysis and design for recycling. With this compact overview, a reader will understand depolymerisation recycling in the necessary context of scale, sustainability and value chain thinking, towards a sustainable value chain transformation.
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Depolymerization Recycling
Plastics, structural polymers made from monomers, are ubiquitous in modern life and have unique benefits. At their end of life, they must be reused or recycled in ways not yet implemented today. In many cases, the polymerisation process can be efficiently reversed via depolymerisation recycling to regain monomers at the original quality level. As such, depolymerisation is a key circularity...Paperback$15400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Engineering Sustainability Goals
According to Socrates, "The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new." The new includes healthier living and sounder engineering. Specifically, we strive to generate cleaner energy and spread it to all corners of the world; improve understanding and care for the land, sea, and air; transform waste...Paperback$27600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Open Mathematical Problems
The book presents much creative, original and stimulating ideas on the various approaches which could be taken to tackle five important open problems in mathematics, viz., the twin primes, Goldbach and Polignac’s conjectures, and the Navier-Stokes equations and turbulence, and the Riemann hypothesis, which are both Millennium Prize problems. Technical areas such as calculus, differential equations, group theory/symmetry and complex...Paperback$15200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Book Details
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ISBN: 9783111660356
Publisher: De Gruyter
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 21 April 2026
Country: Germany
Imprint: De Gruyter
Illustration: 4 Tables, color; 13 Tables, black and white; 65 Illustrations, black and white; 94 Illustrations, color
Audience: Professional and scholarly
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Width: 170.0mm
Height: 240.0mm
Weight: 294g
Pages: 160
About the Author
Hannah Mangold studied chemistry at Freiburg University, Germany, and completed her PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz on the topic of organic photovoltaics. She joined BASF R&D in 2014 and has been working in diverse fields such as photophysics of luminescent materials, as well as product development for display materials. She is now a team leader in Process Research and Chemical Engineering, where her focus is on polymer recycling projects in the field of depolymerization and solvent-based recycling. In this field she has contributed to several projects regarding the recycling of polycondensation polymers from small lab scale to pilot scale.
Bernhard von Vacano studied chemistry and physics as an elective subject, in Tübingen (Germany), at the University of Wales in Bangor (UK), the Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching (Germany) and received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Marburg University (Germany). Having joined BASF in 2008 in the company´ s polymer physics department, he has since held various positions in R&D is now a senior research fellow in the area of plastics circularity.
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