LIQUID FUEL OBTAIN FROM POLYPROPYLENE (PP-5) AND HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE (HDPE-2) WASTE PLASTICS MIXTURE
Moinuddin Sarker, Mohammad Mamunor Rashid, Sadikur Rahman, Mohammed Molla
Pages: 368-378
Published: 1 Jan 2011
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Abstract: Plastics are made by combination of small based molecules to form monomers. The monomers are then joined together by chemical polymerization mechanism to form polymers also known as plastics. These plastics contain various elements such as carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, chlorine and sulfur. The use of plastics is vastly expanded and it is being used in every sector of the world. However, using plastics does have a negative aspect, after use they end up in our landfill as waste causing numerous health and environmental problems. Landfill waste plastics release harmful gases due to the presence of carbon, chlorine and sulfur in them into the atmosphere causing climates to change drastically, equivalent to the effects of greenhouse gases (GHG) emission. To overcome these environmental issues, scientists have already developed many methods to converting these waste plastics into energy and fuel. We developed one new methods thermal cracking conversion to convert these waste plastics into usable liquid fuel. Thermal cracking conversion is a process to shorten the long chain hydrocarbons to produce liquid fuel in the absence of a catalyst. The thermal degradation process of the waste plastics long chain hydrocarbon to makes short chain hydrocarbon fuel. The fuel produced has been analyzed and tested according to standard methods.
Keywords: fuel, hydrocarbon, waste plastic, thermal degradation, conversion, gc/ms
Cite this article: Moinuddin Sarker, Mohammad Mamunor Rashid, Sadikur Rahman, Mohammed Molla. LIQUID FUEL OBTAIN FROM POLYPROPYLENE (PP-5) AND HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE (HDPE-2) WASTE PLASTICS MIXTURE. Journal of International Scientific Publications: Materials, Methods & Technologies 5, 368-378 (2011). https://www.scientific-publications.net/en/article/1003346/
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