There is described a method of recovering parts of an electronic circuit having a self-supporting substrate having graphene oxide (GO) paper, and at least a conductive trace on the self-supporting substrate. The method generally has a step of immersing the electronic circuit into an environment-friendly solvent, the GO paper thereby dissociating from the conductive trace; and a step of recovering the GO paper from the environment-friendly solvent. The present disclosure also describes an electronic circuit generally having a self-supporting substrate having GO paper with a structural thickness being equal or above a given thickness threshold; and at least a conductive trace on said self-supporting substrate. Further, there is also described a substrate for an electronic circuit in which the substrate generally has a self-supporting substrate having GO paper with a structural thickness being equal or above a given thickness threshold.

Devices facilitating recovery of polymers are disclosed. A crushing device (25) includes a housing (13) into which a paper diaper (D) containing polymers (P) in a water-absorbed state is thrown, and a crushing member (28) that is accommodated in the housing (13) and crushes the paper diaper (D). A moving speed of the crushing member (28) is 0.1 m/s or less.

A method for recycling paper to produce a less white and clean office paper product for paper printing and writing, said method comprising the steps of: collecting waste papers; sorting said collected papers waste without the need to separate between the various paper grades; pressing said sorted recycled paper; pulping said sorted recycled paper by a pulper which contains water turns into a mixture; said pulper chops said sorted recycled paper into small pieces; heating said pulp mixture breaks said recycled paper down more quickly into tiny strands of cellulose or fibers to eventually, said sorted recycled paper turns into a pulp; sieving, said pulp is forced through sieves containing holes and slots of various shapes and sizes, said sieves remove small contaminants; cleaning, said pulp spinning around in large cone-shaped cylinders; heavy contaminants are thrown to the outside of the cone and fall through the bottom of the cylinder; lighter contaminants collect in the center of the cone and are removed; refining, said pulp is beaten to make said recycled fibers swell for papermaking; if said pulp contains any large bundles of fibers, said refining step separates said bundles into individual fibers; dewatering, said watery pulp enters a headbox at a paper machine, and then is sprayed in a continuous wide jet onto a huge flat wire sieve which is moving very quickly through said paper machine; on a sieve, water starts to drain from said pulp, and said recycled fibers quickly begin to bond together to form a watery sheet; said sheet moves rapidly through a series of felt-covered press rollers which squeeze out more water; said sheet, which now resembles paper, passes through a series of heated metal rollers which dry said paper’, said dried paper is wound into a giant roll and removed from the paper machine; the roll of said paper is cut into smaller rolls, or sometimes into sheets and made into said paper product.

Provided is a powdery paper-strengthening agent comprising an amphoteric (meth)acrylamide-based polymer (A) having a weight-average molecular weight of 1,000,000 to 7,000,000, wherein the amphoteric (meth)acrylamide-based polymer (A) comprises, as constituent monomers, (meth)acrylamide which is an (a1) component, a cationic unsaturated monomer which is an (a2) component, an anionic unsaturated monomer which is an (a3) component, and a crosslinkable unsaturated monomer which is an (a4) component, and wherein an aqueous solution, in which the amphoteric (meth)acrylamide-based polymer (A) is dissolved in a calcium chloride aqueous solution having an electrical conductivity of 4 mS/cm at 25° C. so as to be 1% by weight, has a maximum turbidity of 10 to 2500 NTU at pH 3 to 9.

A machine, particularly for producing cellulose fiber from waste paper with characteristics and yield comparable to virgin fiber, includes at least one conveyor body which is adapted to receive the waste material from which to obtain cellulose fiber; and at least one drum which contains inside it grinders adapted to grind the waste material for the production of the cellulose fiber, and which communicates with the conveyor body.

The grinders include a grinding hammer which is arranged on the bottom of the drum and can rotate by way of a motor about a rotation axis.

A sheet manufacturing method includes: a defibrating step of defibrating a raw material containing a fiber in air; a mixing step of mixing a defibrated material defibrated in the defibrating step and a resin in air; a web forming step of forming a web by accumulating the mixture mixed in the mixing step on a moving body; a transporting step of transporting the web; a sheet forming step of forming a sheet from the web; a setting step of setting a thickness of the sheet; and a control step of controlling a moving speed of the moving body and a transporting speed of the web in the transporting step, in accordance with the thickness of the sheet set in the setting step.

A method for defibrating a fiber body includes: a supply step of supplying a liquid to a fiber body containing fibers; and a defibrating step of defibrating the fiber body to which the liquid is supplied, and in the supply step, the liquid is supplied to the fiber body so that a rate in tensile strength of the fiber body immediately before defibrated in the defibrating step to the fiber body before the liquid is supplied thereto is 60.0% or less.

A fiber assembly-forming method includes providing a water-soluble resin to a first feedstock containing fibers, forming disintegrated matter by disintegrating the first feedstock provided with the water-soluble resin, depositing the disintegrated matter, and providing water to the deposited disintegrated matter.

Methods and apparatus are provided for the separation of a feedstock stream comprising a principle component and at least one secondary component such that at least one component has greater friability that the others using a rotary impact separator. The methods allow the recovery of two or more streams, one rich in the more friable component, and one lean in the more friable component.

The present invention aims to develop a technique for efficiently preparing deinked pulp from prints made with UV-curable inks. According to the processes for preparing deinked pulp of the present invention, high quality deinked pulp can be obtained by performing the steps of: disintegrating printed waste paper containing UV prints in water to give a waste paper slurry; and applying a mechanical process to the waste paper slurry using a rotary disintegrator.