Advances in Polymer Technology, Vol.15, No.3, 215-221, 1996
An algorithm for predicting the properties of products incorporating recycled polymers
An algorithm that can be used to predict a great variety of important properties of mixtures of virgin and recycled polymers is developed in the present work. This algorithm revises a derivation previously published in the literature and generalizes it to take into account properties that cannot be determined without a processing operation. Its validity was tested using data obtained in experiments with mixtures of virgin polymer and polymer recycled a number of times.