Plastics in Transportation

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Applications have largeU been for plastics in powder and pellet forms. By modifications, needed coohng operations have been simultaneously effected with transport to stock storage [Plost. Des. Process., 28 (December 1968)]. 

Port, O., In Transportation, One Word Plastics, Business News, Mar. 6, 2000. 

Krupp Kautex BFT, blowmoulding foam technology, has reached commercial fruition and its first industrial-scale application will be at a new company, BFT Plastics in Northern Ireland, where a machine to mould pallets and transport boxes will be installed later this year. The BFT process uses a chemical blowing agent to foam HOPE to increase rigidity and impact resistance and improve heat insulation. 

No.3, 12th Feb. 1996, p.2 PLASTIC HONEYCOMB FINDING USES IN TRANSPORTATION, STORAGE AND AEROSPACE... 

Transportation of succinic acid and 1,4-butanediol and other various raw materials is the same as for Bionolle. Starch and plasticizer are transported to Showa Denko Tatsuno Factory from domestic and overseas production plants. We derive various scenarios from actual transport information in this study, including distance, route, means of transport, and loading ratios. Fuel consumption and CO2 emission related to transportation are estimated based on these scenarios. As starch is assumed to be produced in the USA, we account for both sea transportation from the USA to Japan and land transportation from domestic ports to the Tatsuno Factory in this study. For inventory data per unit amount of transport during transportation, we refer to data from JEMAI LCA Ver. 1.1.6 [8] for land transportation and data from the literature [15] for sea transportation in particular, data from the literature [16] is also referred to for sea transportation distances. 

Another interesting application is transport of highly viscous oil or oil products (e.g. lubricant, asphalt) in rigid or plastic containers transported through pipe by water or low viscosity oil product. A preliminary analysis has shown substantial saving of capital cost and/or operational cost by employing the common carrier transporting system. 

Wood burns. Most of the fires throughout history, causing death and destruction, have been caused by wood. It is rare that anyone will say Ban wood. Plastics are also carbon compounds, and they also burn. When plastics are involved in a fire, even to the slightest degree, there is often an outcry, Ban plastics. Thus the use of plastics in building and transportation is seriously restricted by this prejudice. 

Concern over energy conservation and safety has stimulated growth in applications for insulation and cushioning in transport. A healthy economy is also expected to increase the demand for cushioning in furniture, bedding, and flooring, as well as for packaging. Structural foams are widely used as substitutes for wood, metal, or unfoamed plastics. 

Aggression of a liquid upon a rubber-modified polymer under stress is well studied and depends upon capillary transport of the liquid to the crack tip. Crack propagation is resisted by the molecular weight of the continuous phase and aided by the plasticization effect of the aggressive liquid or plasticizer in the polymer matrix. High molecular weight, unplasticized products can be expected to have enhanced ESCR to aggressive liquids. 

Most of the work on feedstock recycling of plastic has focused on conversion of plastic to transportation fuels. Little has been reported on conversion of waste plastic to highervalued products. In this section, research on the conversion of waste polymers such as polyethylene to high-quality lubricant oils is summarized. A more detailed account of this research is available elsewhere [24]. 

Particularly attractive method for preparation of synthetic zeolite is recrystallization of natural aluminosilicates, such as kaolinite (halloysite), previously formed for elimination of plastic flow of highly thixotropic, pulverized zeolite. Some additional components of initial mixtures, such as texture modifiers (hard coal, lignite, cellulose, silica, aluminum oxide) are also introduced. They enrich the structure of zeolite adsorbent in transport pores and prevent an excessive compression of the clay material during the formation process. This results in an increase in product efficiency during the crystallization of zeolite phase. 

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