The invention relates to a method for the disposal of a composite material, in particular a composite material contaminated, for example, by radioactivity and containing fluorine impurities. The inventive method for the disposal of a component containing a composite material with a composite matrix and a technical fiber, is characterized in that the component is chemically gasified, wherein the composite material is technically completely decomposed into its basic components, wherein in a first step the composite matrix is dissolved and in a subsequent step the remaining starting materials and intermediate products are thermally decomposed and reacted with added process gases, wherein at least in the subsequent step a reactive gas is supplied and the subsequent step is conducted endothermically.

A recycling and fabrication appliance is provided. The recycling and fabrication appliance is generally configured to convert solid waste, solid materials and/or solid objects into a usable or reusable product. The recycling and fabrication appliance generally comprises a single unit with one or more inputs and one or more outputs. The unit may be a cuboid, or may be any appropriate shape, and may specifically be configured to recycle or repurpose solid waste, solid materials or solid objects into a reusable form at or near the point of consumption or disposal, such as a household or office. The components of the recycling and fabrication appliance may be housed within the unit and may enable the recycling and fabrication appliance to receive various solid waste pieces as an input and to produce a single usable output, referred to herein as a output object.

The present invention particularly relates to a waste glass recovery method for manufacturing glass beads for road markings, and more particularly, to a waste glass recovery method for manufacturing glass beads which includes recovering waste glass such as automobile waste glass, solar panel waste glass, and general cullet, classifying and removing impurities contained in the glass.

A method for the alkaline digestion of soda-lime glass comprising forming a mixture of soda lime glass and a hydroxide solution, the mixture having at least 100 grams of glass per litre of H2O, the hydroxide solution having a concentration of 1M or greater to thereby form an aqueous sodium silicate fraction having a silicate concentration of 50 g/L or greater (calculated as SiO2 equivalent) and a ratio of SiO2:M2O of at least 1, wherein M2O is an alkaline metal oxide, by digesting the glass in the mixture; and separating the aqueous sodium silicate fraction from solids. The solids contain calcium silicate hydrate and undissolved glass. The calcium silicate hydrate can be CSH treated with an acid to thereby dissolve soluble metals from the CSH and separating a liquid phase from a solid phase, the solid phase comprising SiO2 or silica gel.

A method and device for recycling a solar panel with which a cover glass is separated efficiently from the solar panel, the method including: [1] ascertaining feature quantities of the solar panel, including the thickness of a cover glass and the hardness of the cover glass; [2] setting a process condition on the basis of the feature quantities of the solar panel; and [3] separating the cover glass from the solar panel by imparting an impact force to the solar panel by means of a processing medium, on the basis of the process condition.

A brick fabricated from a waste fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) includes a main body. The main body is formed of a composite. The composition of the composite includes, in parts by weight, 1.0 part by weight of a plurality of furnace slag powders, 0.35 to 0.5 parts by weight of a plurality of glass fiber/polymer particles, 0.02 to 0.5 parts by weight of a plurality of glass powders, and 0.65 to 0.75 parts by weight of an alkali solution. The glass fibers/polymer particles are obtained by crushing the waste FRP. The glass powders are obtained by crushing a waste glass. The furnace slag powders, the glass fiber/polymer particles, the glass powders and the alkali solution are uniformly mixed into a mixture. The mixture is poured into a mold, and then generates a polymerization reaction to form the main body.

A waste liquid-crystalline glass recycling system includes a liquid-crystalline glass film removing module and a liquid-crystalline glass separation module connected with the liquid-crystalline glass film removing module. The liquid-crystalline glass film removing module includes a crushing device and a film removal device. The crushing device is configured to crush a liquid crystal panel. The film removal device is connected with the crushing device, and is configured to separate the liquid crystal panel into a glass-liquid crystal mixture and optical film debris. The liquid-crystalline glass separation module is connected with the liquid-crystalline glass film removing module, and is configured to separate the glass-liquid crystal mixture into glass sand and a liquid crystal mixture by using a solvent, in which the liquid crystal mixture includes the solvent.

Methods of recovering lithium from glass include crushing the glass to produce glass particles and contacting the glass particles with an aqueous leaching solution at a leaching temperature greater than ambient temperature and less than the boiling temperature of the aqueous leaching solution to produce a leachate slurry. The glass particles include lithium. The aqueous leaching solution includes sulfuric acid in water or sodium hydroxide in water. Contacting the glass particles with the aqueous leaching solution leaches greater than or equal to about 50% of the lithium out of the glass particles. The methods further comprise separating the leachate slurry to produce a solid residue and a leachate, the leachate comprising the lithium leached from the glass particles. The method further include recovering the lithium from the leachate through precipitation.

Subject of the invention is a method for recycling a glass fiber product waste to obtain recycled glass fibers. By using the waste glass mat recycling method of the invention a complete separation of the glass fibers from the binder or any other bonded precipitations is achieved. The glass fibers regained by the method are undamaged glass fibers having preserved their original geometry and mechanical performance. Surprisingly the recycled glass fibers have a surface that is very smooth, plain and wave less. A further subject of the invention is glass fiber product comprising glass fibers and at least one binder is provided, wherein the glass fibers contain at least 2% by weight of recycled glass fibers and up to 98% by weight of new glass fibers.

A method for recycling glass scrap from exhausted photovoltaic panels containing organic and substantially lead-free contaminants which allows obtaining industrial-degree liquid sodium silicates and mixed inorganic silicates insoluble in water and in alkaline solutions having a high number of industrial applications. The embodiments also relate to soluble and insoluble silicates obtained by such a method.