Overview of Commercial Pyrolysis Processes for Waste Plastics

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 381-433

  Scheirs, John ^a  

^a ExcelPlas Polymer Technology   (Australia)

Author keywords

Catalytic cracking; Commercial plastic pyrolysis processes; Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC); Layered silicate clay framework; Plastic feedstock for pyrolysis processes; Plastic pyrolysis; Polymer engineering process; Pyrolysis recycling of mixed waste plastics; Thermal cracking

Indexed keywords

CATALYTIC CRACKING; ELASTOMERS; FEEDSTOCKS; PLASTIC RECYCLING; SILICATES; THERMAL ENGINEERING;

COMMERCIAL PLASTICS; FLUID CATALYTIC CRACKING(FCC); LAYERED SILICATE; MIXED WASTES; PLASTIC PYROLYSIS; POLYMER ENGINEERING; PYROLYSIS PROCESS; THERMAL CRACKING;

FLUID CATALYTIC CRACKING;

EID: 84948958972     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470021543.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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