Recovery of hydrocarbon liquid from waste high density polyethylene by thermal pyrolysis

Brazilian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 659-667

  Kumar, Sachin ^a   Singh, R K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Alternative fuel; FTIR; GC MS; Pyrolysis; Waste HDPE

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE FUELS; ELASTOMERS; FUELS; HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENES; HYDROCARBONS; KEROSENE; LIQUIDS; PLASTIC RECYCLING; POLYETHYLENES;

FTIR; GC-MS; HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE(HDPE); HYDROCARBON LIQUIDS; INERT ATMOSPHERES; PYROLYSIS EXPERIMENTS; TEMPERATURE RANGE; THERMAL PYROLYSIS;

PYROLYSIS;

EID: 82455175942     PISSN: 01046632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0104-66322011000400011     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Aboulkas A., Harfi, K. El., Bouadili, A. El, Nadifiyine, M., Benchanaa, M., Study on the pyrolysis of Moroccan oil shale with poly (ethylene terephthalate). Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, 91, 737(2008).
2. Ali, S., Garforth, A. A., Harris, D. H., Rawlence, D. J., Uemichi, Y., Polymer waste recycling over used catalysts. Catalysis Today, 75, 247-255 (2002). (Pubitemid 34624182)
3. Bagri, R., Williams, P. T., Catalytic pyrolysis of polyethylene. Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 63, 29-41 (2002). (Pubitemid 34070139)
4. Beltrame, P. L., Carniti, P., Audisio, G., Bertini, F., Catalytic degradation of polymers: Part II-Degradation of polyethylene. Polymer Degradation and Stability, 26, 209-20 (1989).
5. CEH, report on high density polyethylene resins, (www.sriconsulting.com/ CEH/Public/Reports/58 0.1340/) (Accessed in August, 2010).
6. Chattopadhyay, J., Kim, C., Kim, R., Pak, D., Thermogravimetric characteristics and kinetic study of biomass co-pyrolysis with plastic. Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, 25, (5), 1047(2008).
7. Consea, J. A., Font, R., Marcilla, A., Garcia, A. N., Pyrolysis of polyethylene in a fluidized bed reactor. Energy and Fuels 8, 1238-46 (1994).
8. Garforth, A. A., Lin, Y. H., Sharratt, P. N., Dwyer, J., Production of hydrocarbons by catalytic degradation of high density polyethylene in a laboratory fluidised-bed reactor. Applied Catalysis A: General, 169, 331-342 (1998). (Pubitemid 128408579)
9. Hegberg., B. A., Brenniman, G. R., Hallenbeck, W. H., Mixed plastics recycling technology. Noyes Data Corporation, New Jersey (1992).
10. Hernandez, M. R., Garcia, A. R., Gomez, A., Agullo, J., Marcilla, A., Effect of and absence of HZSM-5. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 45, 8770-78 (2006).
11. Hwang, G., Kim, K., Bae, S., Yi, S., Kumazawa, H., Degradation of high density polyethylene, polypropylene and their mixtures in supercritical acetone. Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, 18, (3), 396(2001).
12. Jan, M. R., Shah, J., Gulab, H., Degradation of waste high-density polyethylene into fuel oil using basic catalyst. Fuel 89, 474-80 (2010).
13. Karagoz, S., Yanik, J., Uçar, S., Saglam, M., Song, C., Catalytic and thermal degradation of highdensity polyethylene in vacuum gas oil over nonacidic and acidic catalysts. Applied Catalysis A: General, 242, 51-62 (2003).
14. Kim, J. S., Cho, M. H., Jung, S. H., Pyrolysis of mixed plastic wastes for the recovery of benzene, toluene and xylene (BTX) aromatics in a fluidized bed and chlorine removal by applying various additives. Energy Fuels, 24, 1389-1395 (2010).
15. Lee, K., Shin, D., Catalytic degradation of waste HDPE over acidic catalysts with different pore sizes. Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, 20, (1), 89(2003).
16. Lee, K. H., Shin, D. H., Catalytic degradation of waste polyolefinic polymers using spent FCC catalyst with various experimental variables. Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, 20, (1), 89-92 (2003).
17. Lee, K. H., Jeon, S. G., Kim, K. H., Noh, N. S., Shin, D. H., Park, J., Seo, Y. H., Yee, J. J., Kim, G. T., Thermal and catalytic degradation of waste highdensity polyethylene using spent FCC catalyst. Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, 20, (4), 693-97 (2003). (Pubitemid 37199523)
18. Lin, Y. H., Yang, M. H., Yeh, T. F., Ger, M. D., Catalytic degradation of high density polyethylene over mesoporous and microporous catalysts in a fluidized-bed reactor. Polymer Degradation and Stability, 86, 121-128 (2004).
19. Manos, G., Garforth, A., Dwyer, J., Catalytic degradation of high-density polyethylene over different zeolitic structures. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 39, 1198-1202 (2000). (Pubitemid 30265949)
20. Mastral, J. F., Berrueco, C., Gea, M., Ceamanos, J., Catalytic degradation of high density polyethylene over nanocrystalline HZSM-5 zeolite. Polymer Degradation and Stability, 91, 3330-38 (2006). (Pubitemid 44894271)
21. Miskolczi, N., Bartha, L., Investigation of hydrocarbon fractions form waste plastic recycling by FTIR, GC, EDXRFS and SEC techniques. Journal of Biochemical and Biophysics Methods, 70, 1247-53 (2008).
22. Parikh, P. A., Parekh, D. B., Rotliwala, Y. C., Synergetic pyrolysis of high density polyethylene and Jatropha and Karanj cakes: A thermogravimetric study. Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 1, 033107(2009).
23. Park, J. W., Kim, J. H., Seo, G., The effect of pore shape on the catalytic performance of zeolites in the liquid-phase degradation of HDPE. Polymer Degradation and Stability, 76, 495-501 (2002). (Pubitemid 34435020)
24. Plastic - the Facts, (www.plasticseurope.org/.../06091310-final- plasticsthefacts-28092010-lr.pdf (Accessed in November, 2010)
25. Seo, Y. H., Lee, K. H., Shin, D. H., Investigation of catalytic degradation of high-density polyethylene by hydrocarbon group type analysis. Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 70, 383-98 (2003).
26. Sharratt, P. N., Lin, Y. H., Garforth, A. A., Dwyer, J., Investigation of the catalytic pyrolysis of highdensity polyethylene over a HZSM-5 catalyst in a laboratory fluidized-bed reactor. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 36, 5, 118-124 (1997).
27. Venuto, P. B., Habib, E. T., Fluid Catalytic Cracking with Zeolite Catalysts, Marcel Dekker Inc., New York (1979).
28. Walendziewski, J., Steininger, M., Thermal and catalytic conversion of waste polyolefins. Catalysis Today, 65, 323-30 (2001).
29. Wallis, M. D., Bhatia, S. K., Thermal degradation of high density polyethylene in a reactive extruder. Polymer Degradation and Stability 92, 1721-29 (2007). (Pubitemid 47361343)
30. Zhou, L., Wang, Y., Huang, Q., Thermogravimetric characteristics and kinetic of plastic and biomass blends co-pyrolysis. Fuel Processing Technology, 87, 963(2006).