Dr Naeimeh Jafarifar n.jafarifar@rgu.ac.uk
Lecturer
Dr Naeimeh Jafarifar n.jafarifar@rgu.ac.uk
Lecturer
Dr Mohammed Seddiki m.seddiki1@rgu.ac.uk
Lecturer
Dr Theo Dounas
Professor Nadimul Faisal N.H.Faisal@rgu.ac.uk
Professor
Each year, 370 million tonnes of plastic waste is produced across the world, causing serious harm to the environment by lasting long in the landfills or find a way to the oceans. This can harm living beings too by entering food chain.
Current plastic recycling technologies are not fully efficient, given the need for sorting a vast array of plastic formations, separation of them, and removing contaminations, sticky labels, glue, foils, etc. For many types of plastic, current approaches to recycling are very energy intensive, or degrade the material over time as such, they cannot be recycled repeatedly.
This widely produced waste deserves further research for an effective reuse in the construction sector, the biggest consumer of raw materials. Plastic has good thermal properties and can be recycled into building insulation products, if studied and optimised for that purpose.
This project will develop innovative building insulation modules and an efficient technical process for upcycling plastic and packaging waste into those modules, suitable for wide use in construction. This is to provide a solution for plastic waste management, reduce environmental pollutions, improve energy efficiency of buildings, and cut the upfront embodied carbon emission of construction.
Status | Project Complete |
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Value | £44,000.00 |
Project Dates | Oct 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2024 |
Partner Organisations | Oban Joinery Services Ltd |
Advanced particle damping (APD) solutions for small bore pipework Jun 1, 2016 - Sep 1, 2017
Flow induced main line vibrations cause high cycle fatigue in small bore pipe connections and cantilever valves. Ageing assets can exacerbate these issues due to changing flow rates and previous fatigue exposure. This vibration has the potential to...
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Stab-In Pipe Stage 2 Feb 1, 2019 - Feb 14, 2020
This is Stage 2 of a project to design and develop new non-threaded drill pipe joints. .
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Develop capability to characterise the extrusion of elastomers Feb 4, 2020 - Feb 26, 2022
To develop an in-house capability to characterise the extrusion of elastomers at the nano-scales structural level to drive scientifically led new product design and development.
Thermally sprayed metamaterial coatings for photovoltaic energy harvesting applications (#themetacoat) Nov 15, 2018 - Jul 31, 2019
Metamaterials, an artificial periodic two- or three-dimensional configuration, can change propagation characteristics of electromagnetic waves, which in return can cause wave energy to get absorbed into the material. Taking this idea forward, we intro...
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Low-carbon, seismic-resistant building solution for developing densely-populated smart city; Istanbul Aug 10, 2020 - Feb 3, 2022
Istanbul, the Turkey’s largest city and its economic hub, is located on the Northern Anatolian fault zone with high seismic activity. Reducing the devastating effect of earthquake in such a densely-populated city is a big challenge.
In the Sendai...
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