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Conversion of Waste Plastics to Diesel-Like Fuel Through Pyrolysis

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  • As the development, processing, and manufacturing of plastic has improved over the years, so has our amount of plastic waste. Currently, only approximately 9% of post-consumer plastics get recycled. The other 91% is buried in landfills, burned, ends up in the ocean, or is accumulating in communities without access to recycling centers or enough landfill space. The research conducted was towards finding a solution for these communities that would give them a disposal method for these plastics while also providing them with a source of fuel. Waste-plastic pyrolysis is the process of heating waste plastics to high temperatures in the absence of oxygen to allow for the carbon chains in the plastic to breakdown into those that align with diesel fuel. There are many different experimental parameters that can be varied in this process to determine a procedure that results in the correct length of carbon chains, has a high conversion rate, and is reasonable for these communities to perform on their own if given a reactor. Reactor temperature and configuration, catalyst type and mass, and plastic feed type and mass were the different parameters explored throughout many experiments which are outlined in this paper.
  • Key Words: Pyrolysis, Chemical Recycling, Fuel Source, Environmental Justice
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