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TY - CONF AU - Apsimon, R. AU - Dewhurst, K.A. AU - Setiniyaz, S. AU - Seviour, R. AU - Turner, D.A. AU - Wise, W.R. ED - McIntosh, Peter ED - Burt, Graeme ED - Apsimon, Robert ED - Schaa, Volker R.W. TI - RELIEF: Tanning of Leather with e-beam J2 - Proc. of LINAC2022, Liverpool, UK, 28 August-02 September 2022 CY - Liverpool, UK T2 - International Linear Accelerator Conference T3 - 31 LA - english AB - Tanning of leather for clothing, shoes and handbags uses potentially harmful chemicals that are often run off into local water supplies or require a large carbon footprint to safely recover these pollutants. In regions of the world with significant leather production this can lead to a significant environmental impact. However recent studies have suggested that leather can instead be tanned using a combination of electron beams in a process inspired by the industrial crosslinking of polymers, to drastically reduce the quantity of wastewater produced in the process; thereby resulting in a reduced environmental impact as well as potential cost savings on wastewater treatment. In this talk, initial studies of leather tanning will be presented as well as accelerator designs for use in leather irradiation. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 645 EP - 649 KW - electron KW - simulation KW - site KW - radiation KW - FEL DA - 2022/09 PY - 2022 SN - 2226-0366 SN - 978-3-95450-215-8 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2022-WE2AA02 UR - https://jacow.org/linac2022/papers/we2aa02.pdf ER -