Thermal and Catalytic Conversion of Polyolefins

Feedstock Recycling and Pyrolysis of Waste Plastics: Converting Waste Plastics into Diesel and Other Fuels

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 111-127

  Walendziewski, Jerzy ^a  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC); Pilot and commercial plants; Polyolefin conversion; Pyrolysis and waste polyolefin cracking; Reactor design; Waste plastic processing; Waste polyolefin processing

Indexed keywords

ELASTOMERS; PILOT PLANTS; PLASTIC RECYCLING; PLASTICS PLANTS;

CATALYTIC CONVERSION; ECONOMIC ASPECTS; FLUID CATALYTIC CRACKING(FCC); PILOT AND COMMERCIAL PLANTS; PROCESSING WASTES; PYROLYSIS MECHANISM; REACTOR DESIGNS; WASTE PLASTIC;

FLUID CATALYTIC CRACKING;

EID: 84948947666     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470021543.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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