Intelligent Model for Manual Sorting of Plastic Wastes

Intelligent Model for Manual Sorting of Plastic Wastes

The need for an automated sorting system cannot be overemphasized due to the growing needs for high throughput and accuracy. Manual sorting method may achieve good accuracy, but at the expense of throughput. This study formulates an automated plastic wastes identification model to overcome the limitation of the manual sorting method. The proposed identification model employed singleton Sugeno f...

Sorting Plastic Bottles for Recycling

Recycling Techniques of Polyolefins from Plastic Wastes

Disposing of plastic wastes to landfill is becoming undesirable due to legislation pressures, rising costs and the poor biodegradability of commonly used polymers. In addition, incineration meets with strong societal opposition. Therefore, recycling either mechanical or chemical, seems to be the only route of plastic wastes management towards sustainability. Polyolefins, mainly polyethylene (LD...

investigating the feasibility of a proposed model for geometric design of deployable arch structures

deployable scissor type structures are composed of the so-called scissor-like elements (sles), which are connected to each other at an intermediate point through a pivotal connection and allow them to be folded into a compact bundle for storage or transport. several sles are connected to each other in order to form units with regular polygonal plan views. the sides and radii of the polygons are...

Sorting of plastic waste for effective recycling

Separation of plastic from various types of waste streams represents one of major problematic process in energy recovery through different thermochemical processes. The sorting of plastics is a very essential step in different waste management technique. Manual sorting is suitable when plastic component are present in large amount but it is a labor intensive process. In automated sorting techni...