Management - Plastics Processing

Plastics processing emerged as a separate, identifiable engineering 

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An important aspect of plastics processing management is to obtain products with the required end-use properties such as melt viscosity, softening temperature, mechanical strength and so on. Therefore, plastics processing depends on ... 

Current development activities are focused on the processes and practices of reprocessing plastic waste materials, with emphasis on the processes and practices that reduce emissions and integrate the LCA of technologies and materials. Plastics processing management involves the reuse of plastics waste from industry, and primary and secondary recycled material, to limit the environmental impact and preserve natural resources. 

Productivity improvement is the primary objective of the plastics processing industry and developments include the entire process. The results of these developments have been implemented in terms of the utilisation of plastics waste, additives and machinery. The role of plastics processing management has expanded, from simply executing to implementing, and requires industries to continue to provide and develop efficient systems and techniques. Improvements are driven by respective solutions to process problems and tbe development of productivity can be achieved by implementing further waste reduction, which is the primary aim of the processing industry. 

The Japanese Plastic Waste Management Institute is developing a process to convert PVC and other plastic waste materials to fuel oil through pyrolysis. In Eiuope, a free market for plastics waste is now being established by the European Plastics Converters over the internet. The company says it will be possible to establish market prices for recyclates at European level on a supply and demand basis. The European market for recycled plastics is currently worth around 1.18bn US dollars and is predicted to reach 2.53bn US dollars by the endof2001. WORLD... 

In examining the technical options for plastic waste management, chemical recycling appears to be the least developed and most difficult. In this paper, BP Chemicals sets out its analysis of the factors that will determine the choice of chemical recycling process technology. From this a process concept based on thermal cracking is developed and the hurdles to be overcome before such a process can be realised is discussed. 

Both parallel processes in the Design Department and the Plastics Engineering Company can be inter-connected (Fig. 3.92). According to the plan of the process manager in the Design Department, the two simulation tasks Simulate Extraction and Simulate Distillation shall be synchronized with the task Determine Process Parameters of the other organization with respect to their execution states and documents shall be transferred between these tasks. This is an example of inter-organizational control and data flow. 

Kent R. Energy management in plastics processing. 2008. 265pp. www.pidbooks.com. 

Plastics waste management does not exist in a vacuum waste plastics are affected by and impact upon many different aspects of national life, i.e., there is a balance between the utilisation of plastics waste and its production and processing. The majority of plastics waste generation is related to material comfort items however, recycling/ reuse initiatives for mixed plastics are limited [1]. 

In particular, it is crucial that plastics waste management is linked to the parallel development of production and processing, otherwise there is a risk that controls to limit the environmental pollution of one operation will lead to an increased level of pollution in another, hence ... 

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