The NUS team has also developed a more eco-friendly process to
convert paper waste into aerogels.
A research team from the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Faculty of Engineering has achieved a world's first by successfully
converting paper waste into green cellulose aerogels that are non-toxic, ultralight, flexible, extremely strong and water repellent.
Recycling or
converting paper waste into useful products, therefore, contributes towards environmental conservation.
Not exact matches
Each day the facility would
convert 1,000 tons of wood chips and
waste from Georgia's vast pulp and
paper industry into 274,000 gallons of ethanol.
And his lab last summer published a
paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences establishing tin telluride with the addition of the chemical element indium as a material capable of
converting waste heat to electricity.
Script character recognition in combination with an EMT panel allows students to write on the screen,
convert their script into typed characters and helps teachers to check assignments (replacing
paper for classwork and homework to reduce
waste and save time).
This is a very reasonable estimate of the
paper fiber that could be
converted into fuel available from the City of Toledo
waste stream and obviously is not enough.
10 or 15 years ago, the city of Tacoma was running a small power plant that had been
converted to burn a mixture of pulverized coal, hog fuel (lumber
waste that was too low quality to make
paper from) and RDF (refuse derived fuel, basically the lightweight plastic and
paper shreds from garbage that would rise up and over in an air separator) in a fluidized bed combustor.
Turning animal poop into
paper is no longer just a cool way to
convert wastes into useful products — it's now an award - winning cool way to
convert wastes into useful products!
But our human
waste system with huge amounts of
paper and other cellulose products have 5 - 10 times more biocarbon that we let get degraded to reemit GHGs when we could be
converting them to inert carbon.