Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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580329 | Journal of Hazardous Materials | 2010 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Advance recycling through pyrolytic technology has the potential of being applied to the management of plastic waste (PW). For this purpose 1 l volume, energy efficient batch reactor was manufactured locally and tested for pyrolysis of waste plastic. The feedstock for reactor was 50 g waste polyethylene. The average yield of the pyrolytic oil, wax, pyrogas and char from pyrolysis of PW were 48.6, 40.7, 10.1 and 0.6%, respectively, at 275 °C with non-catalytic process. Using catalyst the average yields of pyrolytic oil, pyrogas, wax and residue (char) of 50 g of PW was 47.98, 35.43, 16.09 and 0.50%, respectively, at operating temperature of 250 °C. The designed reactor could work at low temperature in the absence of a catalyst to obtain similar products as for a catalytic process.
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Authors
Sajid Hussain Shah, Zahid Mahmood Khan, Iftikhar Ahmad Raja, Qaisar Mahmood, Zulfiqar Ahmad Bhatti, Jamil Khan, Ather Farooq, Naim Rashid, Donglei Wu,