Economic potentials of textile recycling and hydrogen production from textile waste in Bavaria

 

TREC H2

The textile industry is one of the most important consumer goods industries in the world, processing a considerable amount of raw materials, both from agricultural production (natural fibers) but also from industrial production (man-made fibers) and making them available to the market in the form of clothing, home and technical textiles.

The study considers the economic potential of textile recycling and hydrogen production from textile waste in Bavaria:

  • Consideration of the production processes of the textile value chain
  • Textile waste data
  • Textile waste sorting
  • Status quo of textile recycling
  • ökonomische Potenzialanalyse
  • Forecast for hydrogen demand in Bavaria
  • Gasification process for waste
  • Proposal for a plant concept
  • Spatial analysis of textile waste generation in Bavaria

The bifa text no. 73 is available as  free download  and cannot be purchased as a print copy.