Recycling Technologies for Fibrous Textile & Carpet Waste
and Research Activities at Georgia Tech

1/27/99

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Recycling Technologies for Fibrous Textile & Carpet Waste
and Research Activities at Georgia Tech

Municipal solid waste in USA

Carpet & textile waste in USA

Textile waste utilization

Textile waste

Tufted carpet structure

Carpet waste

Components in a carpet

Carpet recycling and research

Carpet recycling technologies

Research at Georgia Tech

Research at Georgia Tech

Selected Georgia Tech projects

Recycling logistics tool

Life cycle analysis

Supercritical fluid separation

Depolymerization: nylon, PET

Nylon depolymerization

Nylon depolymerization

Melt processing

Melt Processing

Melt Processing

Melt Processing

Composites and laminates

Glass reinforced thermoplastics

TP composites: properties

Fiber reinforced concrete

Concrete

Fiber reinforcement of concrete

Experimental program

Typical flexural test curves

Fiber bridging in flexural test

Shaw R&D Center

Observations

Fiber reinforced soil

Objectives

Laboratory testing

Triaxial compression test

Field trials

Field Installation

Field trial observations

Fiber reinforced soil

Summary

Author: Youjiang Wang