Fabrication of a System to Convert Waste Plastic into Fuel
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Depolymerization, Fossil Fuels, Hydrocarbons, Plastics, Pyrolysis, Waste Management.Abstract
The widespread use of plastics in numerous industries over the worldwide has expanded its output throughout time. The constant demand for plastics resulted in the piling of its garbage in landfills, which occupied a lot of space and contributed to the environmental disaster. Plastics consumption increased, resulting in the depletion of petroleum products which is a non-renewable fossil energy source, as plastics were petroleum-based materials. As a result, pyrolysis is offered as a tertiary recycling method. Pyrolysis is the thermal decomposition of materials in the absence of oxygen at high temperatures (or an inert atmosphere). In the presence of heat, it is a chemical reaction process that includes the molecular breakdown of bigger molecules into smaller ones. Plastic trash pyrolysis might play an essential role in transforming this solid waste with high thermal energy into power and commercially expensive hydrocarbons that can be utilised as fuels or feed stock in the petrochemical sector. The composition of the plastic waste influences the end product yields and attributes. This work has unleashed the possibilities to obtain the fuel from the waste plastics, utilising the renewable resources with the temperature range of about 180-220 °C was achieved with our pyrolysis reactor. The fuel with different compositions of plastics were obtained through the pyrolysis method under the absence of the oxygen in a closely monitored environment obtaining a combustible fuel and later on, the fuel properties were tested and analysed with various trial and error methods.
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