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http://dx.doi.org/10.7844/kirr.2020.29.6.15

Research Trends in Flotation of Waste-plastics and Its Use as Functional Materials  

Han, Yosep (Resource Recovery Research Center, Mineral Resources Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM))
Kim, Rina (Resource Recovery Research Center, Mineral Resources Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM))
Hong, Hye-Jin (Resource Utilization Research Center, Mineral Resources Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM))
Park, In-Su (Resource Utilization Research Center, Mineral Resources Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM))
Kim, Dong-Gyun (Advanced Functional Polymers Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT))
Kim, Yun Ho (Advanced Functional Polymers Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT))
Jeon, Ho-Seok (Resource Recovery Research Center, Mineral Resources Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM))
Chang, Hankwon (Resource Utilization Research Center, Mineral Resources Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM))
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Resources Recycling / v.29, no.6, 2020 , pp. 15-26 More about this Journal
Abstract
In recent years, there is an increasing interest in environmental friendly treatment of waste-plastics in terms of the generation of microplastics. Accordingly, the recycling of waste-plastics is very important because it provides advantages of volume reduction, mitigation of carbon dioxide emission, and reproduction of value-added products. In particular, in order to recycle the eco-friendly waste-plastics, it is necessary to use a physical separation methods, and among them, flotation separation, which can separate material (i.e., polymer component) in waste-plastics is well known as a very effective separation method in terms of material recycle. Therefore, in this review, the research trend of flotation separation for effective separation of mixture waste-plastics was investigated. In addition, through the reported research results, approaches to use as new functional materials from polymers, which are raw materials for waste-plastics, are summarized.
Keywords
Waste-plastics; surface characterization; flotation separation; oil sorbents;
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