Louis Whitesides

Pyrolysis of Household Plastic Wastes

Nasrollah Hamidi, Fariba Tebyanian, Ruhullah Massoudi & Louis Whitesides · Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology · 2013

Aims: Thermal cracking of waste plastic (without catalyst) to useful chemicals. Study Design: To design the experimental procedure, we primarily concentrated on the thermal stability of the materials by bearing in mind the results of thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). Based on the...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJAST/2014/1984

Thermogravimetric and Kinetics of Thermal Degradation of Powdered Laboratory Examination Gloves: 1. Analysis of Thermal Scan Traces from 310-455ºC

Nasrollah Hamidi, Ruhullah Massoudi, Sujan Shrestha, Marketa Marcanikova, Sihan Chang & Louis Whitesides · Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology · 2014

The aim of this study was to develop an energy efficient method to decompose powdered laboratory safety examination gloves (PLEG). This paper reports on the results of thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) of PLEG without a catalyst. The study was conducted in the Department of Biolog...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJAST/2014/12277

Waste Plastics: Pyrolysis of Powdered and Powder-free Laboratory Examination Waste Gloves

Nasrollah Hamidi, Ruhullah Massoudi, Sujan Shrestha, Lycinda Lalmansingh, Travis Pascoe, Comfort Oriakhi & Louis Whitesides · Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology · 2013

Aims: The aim of this investigation was to develop a methodology that provides insights to clean up environmental pollution caused by the ever increasing amount of waste plastic materials. The procedure, however, would be practical whenever it is economically advantageous. Therma...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJAST/2014/6375