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Cite as Citation reference for the source document. Aliaksei Petsiuk, Bharath Lavu, Rachel Dick, and Joshua M. Pearce. Waste Plastic Direct Extrusion Hangprinter, Inventions 7, no. 3: 70, 2022. https://doi.org/10.3390/inventions7030070 Academia OA, Preprint.
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Type 3D Printing
recycling
Authors Aliaksei Petsiuk
Bharath Lavu
Rachel Dick
and Joshua M. Pearce
Years 2022
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As the additive manufacturing industry grows, it is compounding the global plastic waste problem. Distributed recycling and additive manufacturing (DRAM) offers an economic solution to this challenge, but it has been relegated to either small-volume 3D printers (limiting waste recycling throughput) or expensive industrial machines (limiting accessibility and lateral scaling). To overcome these challenges, this paper provides proof-of-concept for a novel, open-source hybrid 3D printer that combines a low-cost hanging printer design with a compression-screw-based end-effector that allows for the direct extrusion of recycled plastic waste in large expandable printing volumes. Mechanical testing of the resultant prints from 100% waste plastic, however, showed that combining the challenges of non-uniform feedstocks and a heavy printhead for a hangprinter reduced the strength of the parts compared to fused filament fabrication. The preliminary results are technologically promising, however, and provide opportunities to improve on the open-source design to help process the volumes of waste plastic needed for DRAM to address the negative environmental impacts of global plastic use.

Keywords[edit | edit source]

additive manufacturing; agrivoltaic; distributed manufacturing; open hardware; photovoltaic; solar energy;3D printing; big area additive manufacturing; BAAM; hanging printer; hangprinter; plastic waste; recycling; sustainable manufacturing; wire robot


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RepRapable Recyclebot and the Wild West of Recycling[edit source]

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Recycling Technology[edit source]

Distributed Recycling LCA[edit source]

Literature Reviews[edit source]

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Externals[edit source]

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