Styrenic Polymers Debromination and Recycling

The current feedstock of en-life high impact polystyrene (HIPS) is currently impossible to be valorized and recycled due the presence of brominated fire retardants (FRs).
The presence of those FR´s is consequence of the need from the electronic industry to compile with the security regulations. However, now those brominated compounds are to be banned due its harmful and hazardousness nature in humans and environment. Thus, a debromination process is required in order to allow HIPS recycling and valorization.

Faculty Supervisor:

Gregory Scott Patience

Student:

Partner:

University of Bath

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Environmental Science and Technology; Clean Technology; Sustainability & the Environment

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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