Print Email Facebook Twitter Archimede, Research and design of a direct solar heated thermoplastic extruder for Ulundi Local Municipality Title Archimede, Research and design of a direct solar heated thermoplastic extruder for Ulundi Local Municipality Author sirianni, francesco (TU Delft Industrial Design Engineering) Contributor Tempelman, E. (mentor) Diehl, J.C. (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Integrated Product Design Date 2022-04-01 Abstract As we all know, plastic pollution is a global problem that is constantly growing, with adverse effects on societies, humans, and wildlife. Many initiatives are focusing on reducing and lowering the effects of plastic pollution. Nevertheless, this phenomenon is growing on a daily basis. Most of the harmful effects of plastic pollution are found in low and mid-income countries, where waste management is lacking because of the scarcity of infrastructures and recycling facilities. On the other side, since they are located in equatorial zones of the globe, these countries hold a very high potential, the solar heat. The proposed solution strives to recycle plastic by combining the technologies of thermoplastic extrusion and parabolic trough collectors in order to create an electricity independent plastic extruder powered by solar heat. The electricity freedom feature permits creating an itinerating Product Service system that allows to recycle plastic in suburbs and zones lacking waste management plans and electricity services. Subject Plastic RecyclingSustainable EnergyPlastic ExtrusionSolar EnergySolar HeatParabolic Trough CollectorParabolic Trough To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a1fa2de4-214c-4d0c-988b-6e22b0a0e00e Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2022 francesco sirianni Files PDF Master_Thesis_Francesco_S ... rianni.pdf 36.87 MB PDF Appendix_Francesco_Sirianni.pdf 27.38 MB PDF Poster_Francesco_Sirianni.pdf 2.8 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:a1fa2de4-214c-4d0c-988b-6e22b0a0e00e/datastream/OBJ2/view