Waste plastics to hydrocarbons?
Waste plastics to hydrocarbons?
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Is there some free literature on the above? Any working plants by reputed big companies? I have read abstracts of a few papers but nothing giving much details? Someone is trying to sell our refinery a visbreaker cum Vacuum distillation followed by hydrodewaxing to produce diesel out of molten waste plastics!!Is it that simple?





RE: Waste plastics to hydrocarbons?
RE: Waste plastics to hydrocarbons?
compositepro has a point. The theory is good but in reality people are too lazy to sort out the plastics correctly for recycling. So then you have to have some type of sorting facility to remove unwanted plastic types. The labor cost for that manual type of sorting really puts a dent in the economics and without it you probably will have a hard time making a consistant product.
Stonecold.
RE: Waste plastics to hydrocarbons?
RE: Waste plastics to hydrocarbons?
This presumes that you have the plastic separated into a waste stream without a lot of water-bearing low fuel-value waste hanging around.
And it presumes that you've done a very good job to ensure that you have no PVC in the waste stream to avoid generating chlorinated dioxins and furans during combustion. Ahh- there's the rub!
RE: Waste plastics to hydrocarbons?
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