Abstract
The recovery and reuse of waste brominated resin, which is a typical plastic waste, is troublesome because it contains toxic brominated flame retardants. Conventional pyrolysis of brominated resin was suggested to be an effective approach for debromination. However, conventional pyrolysis caused high energy consumption and high yield of toxic volatiles. An energy-saving and environment-friendly technology called infrared heating was reported in this study. According to computation of the developed heat transfer models, the critical debromination temperature was 260 °C in infrared heating, which was 271 °C lower than conventional pyrolysis. Meanwhile, no volatile product appeared in the reported technology. In the pyrolysis residue after infrared heating, bromine concentrated orientationally in the fixed and limited area on the resin particles. Free radicals, such as •CH3, H•, and Br•, were combined with Br• generated in infrared heating to form the concentrated bromine. Compared to the chaotic distribution of bromine in conventional pyrolysis, the orientational concentration of bromine was a progress for removing and collecting bromine in infrared heating. Moreover, compared to conventional pyrolysis, infrared heating could decrease 76.2% energy consumption. This work contributed to provide the novel technology for recovery of plastic wastes
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