Factors Affecting Solvent Retention in Plastic Recycling Gels

Experimental data on solvent retention in polymer gels during a dissolution-based recycling process. The dataset includes measurements for six polymers and nine solvents, with six variables used to build a support vector regression model. The work was authored by Hedam Kim and last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Predicting solvent retention in polymer-solvent systems based on vapor pressure and molecular weight.
• Feature importance analysis for variables like the Flory-Huggins interaction parameter and Hansen solubility parameter.
• Selecting optimal polymer-solvent pairs to minimize solvent loss in dissolution-based recycling.

Strengths

• Model built on six specific variables (e.g., solvent vapor pressure, polymer molecular weight) for six polymers and nine solvents.
• Dataset size is 1.6 KB, indicating a focused and directly usable set of experimental parameters and results.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Experimental measurements from a study on the STRAP (Solvent-targeted recovery and precipitation) recycling process.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-02 14:05:58; freshness should be verified.