From Low-Grade Plastic Waste Into Timber Substitutes - Dynamic Quality Control for Mixed & Film-Based Streams

该项目正在开发一种动态过程控制系统，该系统可以扩大低级塑料原料的范围，这些原料可以通过添加生物复合材料增强材料转化为辅助建筑材料。目前，Circular11已经开发出一种工艺，可以从目前被焚烧或填埋的薄膜和交叉污染的塑料流中生产功能材料。然而，这些流的使用仅限于高度一致的单一来源原料，如PPE废物。该项目将开发一个更广泛的基于大规模塑料废物流的聚合物共混物数据库，以及一个过程控制系统，该系统可根据给定塑料废物流的特定输入变量调整我们的专有配方。这将使我们能够使用大规模的废物流作为原料，同时保证产品质量的标准化。它还将开发一个过程控制系统的基础，随着进一步的开发，该系统可以被许可给其他制造商，使他们能够使用低级塑料作为某些应用的原料。

This project is developing a dynamic process control system that can expand the range of low-grade plastic feedstock materials that can be transformed into ancillary construction materials through the addition of biocomposite reinforcements. Currently, Circular11 has developed a process that creates functional materials out of film-based and cross-contaminated plastic streams that currently go to incineration or landfill. However, use of these streams is limited to highly consistent, single-source feedstocks like PPE waste.This project will develop a wider database of polymer blends based on large-scale plastic waste-streams, and a process control system that adjusts our proprietary formulations to the specific input variables of a given plastic waste stream. This will enable us to use large-scale waste streams as a feedstock material whilst guaranteeing standardisation of product quality. It will also develop the basis of a process control system that, with further development, could be licensed out to other manufacturers to enable them to use low-grade plastics as a feedstock material for certain applications.