As landfill costs rise, so does the pressure to increase recycling of nonhazardous waste. A study was conducted to determine the attitudes of textile manufacturers towards market acceptance of recycling textile fibers into new textile products. A questionnaire elicited responses from 90 of 157 manufacturers in seven textile Standard Industrial Codes (SICS) in North Carolina, including small, me...

A sonochemical process has been developed for the insertion of tin nanoparticles into mesoporous carbon, giving a product which was used as a building block for the anode of a rechargeable Li battery; the electrode could deliver a reversible capacity of 400 mAh gr(-1)(C + Sn) at 100% cycling efficiency, which is higher than that of graphite electrodes.

The Gas to Gasoline (GTG) process includes conversion of natural, flare, and associated gas into synthetic fuels that can be compositionally upgraded and adjusted into different useful hydrocarbon fuels including gasoline, liquid petroleum gas (LPG), and fuel gas. Commonly, the GTG process involves three stages: 1) Synthesis gas (syngas) production unit 2) Methanol production unit 3) Methanol t...

We study the impact of product recovery on a firm’s product quality choice, where quality is defined as an observable performance measure that increases a consumer’s valuation for the product. We consider three general forms of product recovery: (i) when product recovery reuses (after reprocessing) quality inducing components or material (e.g., remanufacturing), (ii) when product recovery does ...

We developed a portable flow-through, electrochemical sanitizing unit to produce near neutral pH electrolyzed water (producing NEW). Two methods of redirecting cathode yields back to the anode chamber and redirecting anode yields the cathode chamber were used. The NEW yields were evaluated, including: free available chlorine (FAC), oxidation-reduction potential (ORP), and pH. The performances o...

As still evolving scientific tool LCA is a subject to a number of problems such as defining system boundaries; allocation of environmental impacts due to making more than one product in the same processes; geographical variations of processes, etc. However, the weakest methodological point in the LCA is an avoided impact. The avoided impacts in LCA occurs when disposal scenarios involve energy ...

The further development of lithium-ion batteries leads to an improvement in power densities as well safety and thus requires optimization the materials used. For this purpose, among other approaches, anode are doped with silicon oxide or metallic is used anode. However, a semimetal known lead formation jelly-like fluids hydrometallurgical processes under certain conditions. This publication eva...

To synthesize and select out kinds of chemical compounds with good effects on repelling yak warble –The warbles fly repellent (SM2H). The new invention can keep warble fly away from yak by disturbing their sense organs or producing one kind of warning information or destroying their ways of lives. Hence, the aim of preventing warble fly laying eggs or attacking yak has been achieved. Compoundin...

Extended producer responsibility (EPR) embodies the notion that producers should be made physically or financially responsible for the environmental impacts their products have at the end of product life. The EPR concept has taken hold in Europe and is garnering wide interest in the United States, where a variant known as “shared product responsibility” or “product stewardship” is usually the p...