title: Characterization and thermal behaviour of textile waste from the industrial city of Aleppo in Syria.
abstract: This paper describes the present waste management practices in the industrial city Alsheikh Najjar of Aleppo, mainly with regard to textile waste materials, and provides some insights into future prospects. As a first exploration for energy recovery from textile waste materials, the thermal behaviour of seven different types of textile waste were studied by thermogravimetry. There were assorted differential thermogravimetry peaks found over a particular range of temperatures. Pyrolysis experiments were carried out to identify the pyrolysis products such as gas, liquid, and solid residues known as char. In a subsequent analysis, the combustion behaviour of textile waste was determined and analysed. Typical parameters - reaction front velocity, ignition rate - were considered for the evaluation of the combustion behaviour and the results were compared with values observed for waste wood.
authors.affiliation: Department of Waste Management, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany. nadeemrkh@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Abdulkader
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Majanny
authors.forename: Abdallah
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nassour
authors.forename: Sven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gose
authors.forename: Reinhard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Scholz
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nelles
mesh_terms: D017745:Incineration / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D007220:Industrial Waste / Q000032:analysis* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013593:Syria; D013783:Textile Industry; D013816:Thermodynamics; D013818:Thermogravimetry; D014934:Wood / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D007220:Industrial Waste