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American chemistry council (ACC)

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The American Chemistry Council represents the leading companies engaged in the business of chemistry. ACC members apply the science of chemistry to make innovative products and services that make ...

A complete depolymerization process that breaks nylon into its building blocks or monomers that can then be repolymerized to make nylon in any form and for any market. (Modern Plastics encyclopaedia ...

Automatic plastics sorting

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The separation of mixed plastics by resin type and/or colour via a mechanical system. A system detects the plastic type (or types) to be segregated and removes those materials from the stream. Common ...

Cogeneration

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The simultaneous production of power and another form of useful thermal energy from a single fuel-consuming process. The most common cogeneration systems being constructed today utilise combustion or ...

Combustion

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A chemical process in which oxygen rapidly combines with the fuel and converts the fuel into gases, primarily water (H20) and carbon dioxide (C02), and residues. The combustion process produces ...

Compatibilizers

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Additives that enable two or more materials to exist in close and permanent association indefinitely. They may be used to blend virgin and post-consumer plastic resins or different types of resins to ...

Compounding

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The incorporation of additional ingredients needed for processing in order to have optimal properties. These ingredients may include Additives to improve a polymer's physical properties, stability or ...