PVC report - The material that I choose is PVC
1. Cover page: This can include the title of your report, name, student number, email and date of submission.
2. Table of contents: This part of your report will serve as a guide to the reader indicating the titles of various sections and subsections of the report as well as the page numbers they are located on.
3. Introduction: In this section, you can give brief overview or background information about the material you have chosen, e.g. the reasons for its widespread use, global production volume, leading manufacturers etc. If the material you are focusing on is a noncommercial or a research product, then you might explain how it was discovered, inventors etc. You can include the importance of your material from Australian perspective.
4. Material properties: Here you can provide information about things such as the chemical structure, peculiar physical and mechanical properties and how they affect or enhance the behavior of the material.
5. Production processes: In this section, you can explain the various processes/ technologies available for manufacturing the material and also the latest developments. You may also give advantages and drawbacks for these technologies. Lab or pilot scale processes can also be included in this section.
6. Applications: Here you can provide the range of applications the material is used or will potentially be used for.
7. Safety and environmental issues: You can enlist the safety and environmental issues pertaining to the manufacturing process or the applications of the materials. You can also detail how the end-of-life disposal/recycling of the material is carried out and its negative/positive impacts.
8. Sustainable alternatives: In this part, I would encourage you to not only provide sustainable alternatives from available literature but also input your ideas for the same. You can also give suggestions for making the current manufacturing processes more environment friendly and ways to reduce their carbon footprint.
9. Conclusion: Summaries the information from your report in this section.
The importance of the material/industry selected is explained in detail. It includes basic and specific properties of the material, along with details about its production process, applications, safety and environmental issues, with excellent use of diagrams and tables. The report includes a schematic/flow chart explaining the production/synthesis process. Both mitigation strategies for overcoming safety issues, and environmental issues, such as more sustainable alternatives (or why the material/process is already sustainable) and end-of-life processing/recycling are discussed. Presentation and structure of the report is excellent.