PolyUrethane Recycling towards a Smart Circular Economy

Project Information

PUReSmart

Grant agreement ID: 814543

DOI 10.3030/814543

Project closed

EC signature date 12 December 2018

Start date 1 January 2019

End date 31 December 2022

Funded under

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Advanced materials

Total cost € 6 322 088,04

EU contribution € 5 998 573,75

Coordinated by

CARPENTER ENGINEERED FOAMS BELGIUM
Belgium

Deliverables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (5)

White paper issued to policy makers
Workshop 1
Project website including project collaborative platform
Workshop 2
Five MOOC put online along the project

Documents, reports (3)

Future scenarios for PU industry to be used for social analysis
Technical report on the methodology for measuring the social innovation of PU recycling and quantification of the social innovation
Technical report on the methodological approach for integrated sustainability assessment, quantification and communication of the results

Technical report on the methodological approach for integrated sustainability assessment quantification and communication of the results

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (4)

Transformation of TPU elastomers into TPU foams using supercritical CO2. A new reprocessing approach

Author(s): P. Belmonte, M.J. Ramos, J.F. Rodríguez, I. Garrido, M.T. García, J.M. García-Vargas
Published in: The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, Issue 08968446, 2023, ISSN 0896-8446
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.supflu.2022.105806

Glycolysis of Polyurethanes Composites Containing Nanosilica

Author(s): María Jesús Ramos Marcos; JUAN F. RODRIGUEZ; ANA MARIA BORREGUERO; Jesus Del Amo
Published in: Polymers, Issue 13, 2021, ISSN 2073-4360
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/polym13091418

Scaled-up and economic assessment approach of the split-phase glycolysis process for the recycling of flexible polyurethane foam wastes

Author(s): J. Del Amo; D. Simón; M. J. Ramos; J. F. Rodríguez; A. De Lucas; A. M. Borreguero
Published in: Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management, Issue 16118227, 2022, Page(s) 1059-1071, ISSN 1611-8227
Publisher: Official Journal of the Japan Society of Material Cycles and Waste Management
DOI: 10.1007/s10163-022-01379-9

Recycling of flexible PU foam by split-phase alcoholysis and hydrolysis: valorization of the polyether polyol and aromatic products

Author(s): Thomas Vanbergen, Laurens Claes, Isabel Verlent, Joke De Geeter, Bart Haelterman, Besir Krasniqi, and Dirk De Vos
Published in: ChemSusChem, 2023, ISSN 1864-564X
Publisher: Chemistry Europe