A method, comprising contacting a plurality of petroleum-derived materials, optionally that comprise plastic in the form of a seal, wire or cable jacket, floor covering, filter, vehicle part, or any combination thereof, with a lipid composition comprising fatty acid moieties to produce an agglomerate, wherein from about 9 wt % to about 40 wt % of the fatty acid moieties are saturated, and wherein at least about 0.5 wt % of the fatty acid moieties are monounsaturated. Further, an apparatus for producing an extrudate from petroleum-derived materials is comprising: (a) a pre-extrusion mixer for contacting a plurality of petroleum-derived materials with a lipid composition comprising fatty acid moieties and a filler to produce a composite, having one or more inlets for receiving the petroleum-derived materials, the lipid composition, and the filler, and an outlet for discharging the composite; and (b) an extruder in fluid communication with the outlet of the pre-extrusion mixer.

Continuous processing equipment is suitable for use in the preparation of elastomeric compositions from end-of-life tire crumb or other vulcanized rubber starting materials. A reactor includes an outer barrel, a first shaft and a second shaft, and one or more piezoelectric transducer-driven acoustic horns arranged along the outer barrel and penetrating the outer barrel through a series of vibration-isolated ports which traverse a jacket of the outer barrel.

The present disclosure provides for articles formed of a filled polymeric resin material. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to polymeric resin materials that include a filler that includes of a mixture of cured rubber granules, foam granules, and/or textile fibers. The filler can be suspended in and/or encapsulated by the polymeric resin material. The polymeric resin material, the filler, or both can include waste or scrap material from manufacturing or from ground post-consumer waste.

Methods of producing particles of fiber and resin from fiber-resin composite materials are disclosed. The particles may be combined with a resin system and optionally combined with fillers, binders or reinforcements to produce new cured solid composite products.

A composite epoxy resin board, made from a raw material which includes the following weight percentage of components: waste prepreg powders of 5% to 100%, and waste printed circuit board (PCB) powders of 0% to 95%, is disclosed. The present invention adopts the waste prepregs as the main preparation raw material, which not only recycles and reuses prepreg scraps, but also reduces or even eliminates the use of adhesives due to the high epoxy resin content in the prepregs, while also reducing the glue-mixing time in the forming process, thereby simplifying the forming technology.

A graphene material prepared using waste tires and a preparation method thereof. Waste tires are crushed to 30-200 meshes to obtain tire powders. The tire powders are mixed with KOH or an aqueous solution of KOH to obtain a homogeneous mixture. The mixture is dried at 50-90° C. for 12-48 hours, heated and calcinated in a tube furnace under a protective gas for 1-48 hour to obtain a black lump. The black lump is washed with distilled water, dilute hydrochloric acid or dilute sulfuric acid for at least 3 times, and then washed with deionized water for at least 3 times to obtain a black powder. The black powder is dried to obtain the graphene material. The graphene material has a three-dimensional structure composed of oligolayer graphene intertwined and connected with each other, has a high crystallinity, is not easily agglomerated, and thus can maintain nano-effect of the graphene material.

The present invention relates to a composition comprising a polymeric network having at least one unit of formula (I), (II), and/or (III); (I) (II) (III) wherein said composition is obtained by contacting at least one compound A comprising at least two functions selected from the group of function of formula X—C(═O)—CHR.sup.1—C(═O)—R.sup.2, —C(═O)—C—R.sup.2; or —C(═O)—CR.sup.1═CR.sup.2—NR.sup.4R.sup.5; wherein at least 25% by weight of compounds A have a functionality ≦5, with % by weight relative to the total weight of compounds A; with at least one compound B comprising at least one NH.sub.2, or NH.sub.3.sup.+ groups; wherein X, R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5, L.sup.1 and L.sup.2 have the same meaning as that defined in the claims. The present invention also relates to a compound comprising at least two units and at most 5 units of formula (I), (II), and/or (III); wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, X, L.sup.1 and L.sup.2 have the same meaning as that defined in the claims. The present invention also relates to processes for preparing said composition and said compounds, to material, articles, and polymers comprising or using said compositions and compounds, and the use thereof.

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A process of extraction, quantification and recovery of additives in polypropylene with the stages of washing the plastic material (A), grinding the material (A) to a particle size from 10 to 500 microns, extraction where the material (A) is transferred to a column (1) and then such material successively passes through column (2), column (3) and column (4), respectively, for successive extractions with solvents (I), (II), (III) and (IV), packed column extraction, where the solvent with the additives obtained from each extraction in columns (1), (2), (3) and (4) passes through packed columns (1′), (2′), (3′) and (4′), respectively, crystallization of the additives obtained after each extraction stage in packed columns (1′), (2′), (3′) and (4′) respectively; and quantification of the additives obtained and where the residual material without additives is subjected to pyrolysis.

A method for grinding plastic waste includes mixing 30 to 80 wt % of plastic waste and 20 to 70 wt % of a woodchip by a mixer after equalizing the size of a diameter or a side thereof so as to be 5 mm or less, and grinding a mixture thereof into a fine powder with a particle size of 1 mm or less by a grinding device including a rotor rotating at a high speed.

This invention is based upon the discovery that micronized solution styrene-butadiene rubber from postconsumer sources can be included in rubber formulations without severely compromising abrasion resistance. The micronized solution styrene-butadiene rubber utilized in the rubber formulations of this invention can be made by cryogenic grinding postconsumer rubber products using conventional procedures. For instance, it can be made by cryogenically grinding a tire tread containing a high level of solution styrene-butadiene rubber. The micronized solution styrene-butadiene rubber can then be blending into desired virgin rubbers and cured without significantly compromising the abrasion resistance of the rubber formulation. The rubber formulation of this invention is comprised of a natural or synthetic rubber and from 1 weight percent to 30 weight percent of a micronized rubber composition containing at least 10 weight percent solution styrene-butadiene rubber and having a particle size of 40 mesh to 200 mesh.