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Production and Evaluation of Liquid Hydrocarbon Fuel from Thermal Pyrolysis of Virgin Polyethylene Plastics | ||
| Iraqi Journal of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering | ||
| Article 1, Volume 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 21-33 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Fahmi Abuelgasim Mohamed; Ammar S. Abbas | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Pyrolysis of virgin polyethylene plastics was studied in order to produce hydrocarbon liquid fuel. The pyrolysis process carried out for low and high-density polyethylene plastics in open system batch reactor in temperature range of 370 to 450°C. Thermo-gravimetric analysis of the virgin plastics showed that the degradation ranges were between 326 and 495 °C. The results showed that the optimum temperature range of pyrolysis of polyethylene plastics that gives highest liquid yield (with specific gravity between 0.7844 and 0.7865) was 390 to 410 °C with reaction time of about 35 minutes. Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy gave a quite evidence that the produced hydrocarbon liquid fuel consisted mainly alkanes and the x-ray diffraction showed no sulfur in the produced hydrocarbon liquids. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Polyethylene; Thermal; Pyrolysis; Kinetic study; Batch reactor; plastic | ||
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