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A new recycling system for expanded polystyrene using a natural solvent. Part 3. Life cycle assessment

✍ Scribed by Tsutomu Noguchi; Hidemi Tomita; Kazuki Satake; Haruo Watanabe

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Weight: 175 KB
Volume: 11
Category: Article
ISSN: 0894-3214
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1522(199802)11:1<39::aid-pts416>3.0.co;2-y

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✦ Synopsis

A new system of recycling expanded polystyrene has been developed which uses limonene orange oil as a solvent to recycle high grade polystyrene. Life cycle assessment was applied to this system to simulate its effect on the environment. It is shown that the new system has a lower greenhouse effect (À30%), acidi®cation (À58%) and energy consumption (À20%) than the conventional recycling system using thermal shrinking.

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