Valorization of packaging plastic waste by slow pyrolysis

LDPE, HDPE and PP are three common polyolefins profusely used as packaging materials and abundantly found in the plastic waste stream. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati collected these plastic waste samples from household waste and converted them into plastic derived oil (PDO) by low temperature slow pyrolysis.
The PDO samples obtained had shown variation in their compositions and fuel properties based on the pyrolysis temperature. Noticeably, the PDO samples obtained at low temperature pyrolysis are lighter with low viscosity, high octane number and having high calorific values. An article about the research is published in Resources, Conservation and Recycling.
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