Abstract
The study being reported here was conducted to convert plastic waste,a major source of solid pollution in Pakistan, into liquid fuel by application of Thermal Pyrolysis. A pyrolysis reactor consisting of high strength Pyrex round bottom flask was constructed in the laboratory and used for converting plastic waste into liquid fuel. A 280g sample of plastic waste was pyrolyzed and the resultant products were 120g liquid oil, 100g solid residueand 60g gas.Thus, the yield of liquid fuel from the plastic waste was 43% wt. along with solid mass 36%wt. and gas 21 % wt. The results clearly indicate that there is a significant potential of producing liquid fuel from plastic waste in Pakistan andthe world.
Highlights
The management of plastic waste disposal is one of the biggest environmental problems around the globe
About 50 million tons consumed by humans is generated in USA, Europe and Japan alone.The largest producer of plastic waste in the world is Saudi Arabia having a total capacity of six million metric tons per annum [1, 2].There is a decrease in the proportionate number of landfill sites for dumping of waste
According to this research work conducted in Transformation of Plastic Solid Waste
Summary
The management of plastic waste disposal is one of the biggest environmental problems around the globe. At the turn of the century, a large number of studies were undertaken onsolid plastic waste’s gravity being the cause of extensive solid waste pollution, with an aim to transformplastic waste into useful products such as “fuel gas, hydrocarbons and liquid fuel with regard to increase of their yield using different catalysts and other reagents [14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19].Some kinetic studies have been carried to look into the impact of different parameters on process efficiency to produce useful products [20, 21]”. The objective of this study was the identification and optimization of the processes of plastic pyrolysis for maximizing a range of useful products, designing continuous pyrolysis equipment at lab scale, and evaluating the yield of products from plastic waste by the process developed in the laboratory
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