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Fashion and Textiles

International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research

Table 1 Minimum requirements for PET flakes to be reprocessed (Awaja and Pavel2005; Miller2002; Pawlak et al. 2000)

From: Poly (ethylene terephthalate) recycling for high value added textiles

Properties

Values

Intrinsic viscosity

> 0.7 (dlg−1)

Melting temperature

> 240 (°C)

Water content

< 0.02 wt%

Flake size

0.4 mm < suitable value < 8 mm

Dye content

< 10 ppm

Yellow index

< 20

Metal content

< 3 ppm

Polyvinyl chloride content

< 50 ppm

Polyolefin content

< 10 ppm

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