We are a team from Universidad Tecnológica Nacional - FRSC, along with the Río Gallegos campus of the National University of Patagonia Austral (UNPA), working on an experimental project for the Latin American Innovation Rally 2025 focused on textile waste recycling.The goal: transform mixed textile waste into useful products (such as biomethane and valorized CO2) through a modular closed-loop system, using pre-treatment, citric acid separation, controlled gasification, and PSA/MOF purification. This approach minimizes emissions and converts an environmental liability into an industrial resource.Explanatory video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILSVCpSqGCoWe are looking for technical feedback:Ideas to improve efficiency or purificationPotential scaling challengesGeneral comments on feasibility and sustainabilityIf you’re interested, you can also support us with a like on YouTube — just for visibility, it’s optional.Thanks in advance, anons. Any constructive feedback is welcome.
>>16812908Make better stitches.
>>16812908I don't understand Spanish so my questions may already have been answered.Where do you end up even if they don't build it? That is, the project can fail because rags and equipment are too expensive, but you will have gained skills that transfer. You can be the one to say that landfill or incineration is preferable even counting the pollution externality.How does this design come about? There's a long history of syngas or pyrolysis processes. Ruthven might be the book on pressure swing adsorption, though the MOF adsorbent may be new. Who wrote the book on citric acid separation?As I see it it's a bootstrapping problem. The most detailed model for each unit operation can't just be plugged in and optimized numerically. There's a tasteful amount of simplification that'll still give batch cycle times and vessel volumes while still converging reliably.
