Kinetic Model of the Chemical and Catalytic Recycling of Waste Polyethylene into Fuels

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 225-247

  Miskolczi, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Bifunctional catalysts; Catalyst concentration; Catalysts; Chemical recycling and waste plastics degradation; Kinetic model of recycling; Reaction kinetics of degradation; Solid alkalis; Thermal and thermocatalytic degradation

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; CATALYSTS; KINETIC PARAMETERS; KINETIC THEORY; REACTION KINETICS;

BI-FUNCTIONAL CATALYSTS; CATALYST CONCENTRATION; KINETIC MODELING; KINETICS OF DEGRADATION; WASTE PLASTIC;

PLASTIC RECYCLING;

EID: 84948956670     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470021543.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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