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Home > Forums > Chemical Engineers > Activities > Chemical environmental control Forum

PLastic to Fuel

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jlarocque (Mechanical)
26 Mar 10 15:40
I am looking at different plastic to fuel processes. Any ideas, suggestions or warnings to share?

JL

RogerH (Petroleum)
27 Mar 10 1:16
Different from ?
One that I heard about that you can feed with whatever that contains carbon is the Veba Combi Cracker, i.e. including plastics.
RH
moltenmetal (Chemical)
29 Mar 10 7:32
You mean a "fuel" to "fuel" process?

Plastic is already a fuel.  Mind you, with PVC in the waste stream it can potentially be a very nasty fuel...

What you are talking about is wasting some of the energy to turn it (back) into a LIQUID fuel.

The most efficient way depends entirely on what polymer you're feeding.
jlarocque (Mechanical)
29 Mar 10 7:37
Certainly not intend to burn or use any PVC. Mostly PS PE and PP

JL

JLSeagull (Electrical)
29 Mar 10 7:47
Without running the economics it seems more logical to recycle the plastics made from downstream petrochemicals and buy fuel with the recycle revenue.
jlarocque (Mechanical)
29 Mar 10 7:57
The challenges lies in finding buyers for plastics; until you are faced with it you are very surprised how little demand there is for some products. I have to find more alternatives to recycling and landfilling is not an option.

JL

owg (Chemical)
29 Mar 10 8:00
Don't be seduced by gasification. Some will say it has been around for 100 years so it is well developed. It will turn plastic into fuel gas and lots of unintended things as well.

HAZOP at www.curryhydrocarbons.ca

jlarocque (Mechanical)
29 Mar 10 9:14
Iam just trying to get answers from these so called gazification process but never seem to be sucessful at getting any serious answers....I am realizing recycling is more a want than a will do for many recyclers. Maybe my solution lies in getting a cleaner output and plastic separation by type to facilitate its marketing?!
 

JL

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