Recycling of acrylic plastics: understanding how to achieve virgin-quality monomer product from chemical recycling technologies.

第一年主要集中在参加信用轴承模块。博士项目的目的是更好地了解微波和传统加热技术如何用于处理废塑料，并生产出质量足以在丙烯酸制造中重复使用的单体产品。与行业合作伙伴，其他博士生和项目团队成员合作，成功的候选人将建立和模型的概念，精炼原料和粗单体所需的质量，其中挑战将围绕可变原料组成和近沸点组分的分离。这些精炼工艺将与丙烯酸回收的新技术相结合，产生许多系统级工艺模型，可用于建立原料-技术-产品关系。这些模型将用于指导回收工艺的技术开发，并为回收丙烯酸制定更广泛的行业实施战略，优化丙烯酸循环价值链。

First year mainly focussed on attending credit bearing modules. The aim of the PhD project will be to gain better understanding of how both microwave and conventional heating technologies can be used to process waste plastic and produce monomer product that is of sufficient quality to re-use in acrylic manufacture. Working with the industry partner, other PhD students and project team members the successful candidate will establish and model concepts for refining feedstock and crude monomer to the required quality, where challenges will be around variable feedstock composition and the separation of close-boiling components. These refining processes will be combined with new technologies for acrylic recycling to produce a number of system-level process models that can be used to establish feedstock-technology-product relationships. These models will in turn be used to direct technology development for recycling processes and to develop a broader industry implementation strategy for recycled acrylic, optimising the acrylic circular value chain.