Waste Plastic Conversion Into Hydrocarbo PDF
Waste Plastic Conversion Into Hydrocarbo PDF
Waste Plastic Conversion Into Hydrocarbo PDF
Received: October 8, 2010 / Accepted: December 8, 2010 / Published: April 20, 2011.
Abstract: Energy plays a vital role in our modern civilization. Energy has needs in every sector all over the world, such as
transportation, industrial development, home heating, and electricity production and in our daily life. Till now most of the energy
production depends on the crude oil sources but in our planet the crude oil sources are limited. There is a probability that once these
energy sources may come to an end, it could cause disastrous collapse of the human civilization considering the future fade of this
universe scientist and researchers all over the world had been doing research for new alternate energy sources like solar energy, wind
energy, bio-fuel etc. Plastics are produced mainly from crude oil. Incomprehensible amount of plastic bags are consumed every year all
over the world and after use the discarded plastics bags become a severe problems to the natural environment. Dumping of these waste
plastics create hazardous land fill problems, to avoid this problem transport of plastic waste to landfill cost $ 2800/ton. A new simple
and cost effective technology has been developed for the conversion of the waste plastics into low sulfur diesel fuel. This developed
technology can convert most types of waste plastic into low sulfur diesel fuel.
collected in the 2nd collection tank and termed as the Table 2 FTIR spectrum compound group name and wave
number of commercial diesel.
“NSR double condensed fuel 2nd collection” or ‘NSR
Peak Serial Wave Number Functional Group
2” and the remaining 10% remains on the double Number (cm-1 ) Name
condensed boiling chamber and it is termed “Residual 1 2901.12 C-CH3
Fuel” or “NSR 3”. 2 2729.30 C-CH3
3 2669.02 C-CH3
3. Result and Discussion 9 1467.72 CH3
10 1377.32 CH3
FTIR identification results indicate commercial 15 1032.16 Acetates
diesel has compound groups of, C-CH3, C-CH3, C-CH3, 16 964.87 -CH=CH-(trans)
21 741.04 CH3
CH3, CH3, Acetates (CH3COO-), -CH=CH-(trans),
22 722.62 -CH=CH-(cis)
CH3, -CH=CH-(cis),-CH=CH-(cis) and waste plastic 23 698.86 -CH=CH-(cis)
fuel compound group has H bonded NH, C-CH3,
120.0
C-CH3, C-CH3, C-CH3, CH3, CH3, Acetates 115 NSR Filtered Fuel Double Condense
110 2029.05 2nd Collection (Without Ice)
(CH3COO-), Secondary Cyclic Alcohols, 105 Number of Scan : 32
100 Resolution : 4
95 1938.10 Date : 03/30/2009
-CH=CH-(trans), -CH= CH2, C=CH2, -CH=CH-(cis), 90 2403.11
85 1820.76 1109.72
-CH=CH-(cis), -CH=CH-(cis). These FTIR spectrum 80
1780.49
75 1030.44 634.51
analyses indicate that waste plastic to produce fuel has 70 554.43
65
more hydrocarbon compound group than commercial 60 1604.99
811.25
%T 55
50 2672.57 1073.90
diesel. The functional group compounds of the waste 45 1156.24 774.76
40
plastic fuel are more closely together compared to 35 2728.83 1303.07 738.97
30
diesel. The waste plastic fuel also has more single 25
20
991.72
1642.43 965.42 698.03
bonded compounds indicating quicker and more 15
10 3075.09 721.70
5 909.15
efficient burning of the fuel. 0
-5 2892.78 1452.22 1377.69 887.85
GC/MS tests have been performed to investigate the -10.0
4000.03600 3200 2800 240020001800 1600 14001200 1000800 60 500.0
composition of the produced fuel and commercial cm-1
diesel. The GC/MS Clarus 500 instrument is from Fig. 3 FTIR spectrum of waste plastic to produce fuel.
Perkin Elmer and it uses the Turbomass software to Table 3 FTIR spectrum compound group name and wave
operate. An Elite-5ms 30 meter, 0.25 m mID columns number of waste plastic to produce fuel.
Peak Serial Wave Number
120.0 Functional Group Name
115 Outside Diesel
Number (cm-1 )
110 Number of Scan :32 1 3075.09 H bonded NH
105 Resoluti
100 Date :03/31/2009 2 2892.78 C-CH3
95 2030.21
90 1890.84 3 2728.83 C-CH3
85 1741.85
2404.86 538.02
80 1062.36 4 2672.57 C-CH3
75 964.87
70 5 2670.66 C-CH3
65
60 12 1452.22 CH3
55 1212.24
1032.1
%T 50
2669.02
13 1377.69 CH3
45 1168.71 6
1606.92 876.76
40 847.68
18 1030.44 Acetates
35 2729.30 1306.78 698.86
30 805.90 19 991.72 Secondary Cyclic Alcohols.
25
20 766.10 20 965.42 -CH=CH-(trans)
15
10 741.04 722.62 21 909.15 -CH= CH2
5
0 22 887.85 C=CH2
-5 1377.32
1467.72
2901.12 25 738.97 -CH=CH-(cis)
-10.0
4000.0 3600 3200 2800 2400 2000 1800 1600 1400 1200 1000 800 600 500.0 26 721.70 -CH=CH-(cis)
cm-1
27 698.03 -CH=CH-(cis)
Fig. 2 FTIR spectrum of commercial diesel.
Waste Plastic Conversion into Hydrocarbon Fuel like Low Sulfur Diesel 449
was used. The temperature conditions were from commercial diesel fuel.
35-250 ℃. The ramping rate is at 4.0 0/min to 130 ℃ A comparative analysis, using a differential scanning
holds for 1.00 min and ramp 2 is at 10.0 0/min to calorimeter (DSC), shows that NSR-2 fuel has boiling
250 ℃ holds for 5.00 min. Helium is used a carrier gas. point and 227.75 ℃ commercial diesel boiling point
Figs. 4 and 5 chromatograms of produce fuel and diesel Table 4 GC/MS chromatograph of commercial diesel fuel
fuel illustrating the carbon chain length. Commercial compound list.
diesel carbon chain is C7-C27 and NSR double Compound Name Formula
condensed fuel 2nd collection (NSR-2) carbon chain is Methyl-Cyclohexane C7H14
Octane C8H18
C9-C27. Gas chromatography (GC) tests, Figs. 4 and 5,
Ethyl- Cyclohexane C8H16
show peak intensity distribution throughout the range Ethyl-Benzene C8H10
of hydrocarbon groups C9-C27, with retention times P-Xylene C8H10
ranging from 2 min to 27 min. On the other hand GC Nonane C9H20
tests for commercial fuels show commercial diesel 3-Methyl-1-Ethyl-Benzene C9H12
1,3,5-Trymethyl-Benzene C9H12
contain C7-C27. From GC/MS test is showing waste
2-Propyl-1-Methyl-Benzene C10H14
plastic to produce fuel is similar in carbon contents to Undecane C11H24
Dodecane C12H26
17
6-Methyl-1,2,3,4-TetraHydro-Napthalene C10H12
11 18
15
19
Tridecane C13H28
8
13
10
20 2,6-Dimethyl-1-1,2,3,4-TetraHydro-Napthalene C12H12
Tetradecane C14H30
Intensity (a.u)
21
22 2,6,10-TrimethylTetradecane C17H36
23 Pentadecane C15H32
12
Hexadecane C16H34
14 16 24
9
Nonadecane C19H40
7
5
6 25 Octadecane C18H38
4
1 2
3
26 Nonadecane C19H40
27
Eicosane C20H42
Commercial Diesel
Heniecosane C21H44
2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 Heniecosane C21H44
Retention Time (Minutes) Nonadecane C19H40
Fig. 4 GC/MS chromatograph of commercial diesel fuel. Nonadecane C19H40
Heptacosane C27H56
22
20
23
18
15
24
Intensity (a.u)
12
13
25
9
14
11
8
17
26
6
5
27
21
19
NSR-2 Fuel 3 16 28
10
7 29
1 2 4
30
2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30
Retention Time (Minutes)
Fig. 5 GC/MS Chromatograph of NSR-2 fuel. Fig. 6 DSC graph of waste plastic to produce fuel.
450 Waste Plastic Conversion into Hydrocarbon Fuel like Low Sulfur Diesel
3-Dodecene C12H24
0.2
Dodecane C12H26
2,3,5,8-Tetramethyl-Decane C14H30 0.0
0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000 2200 2400
2-Tridecene C13H26
Time (Seconds)
3-Octadecene C18H36
Fig. 7 Electricity output comparison graph of waste plastic
2-Isopropyl-5-Methyl-1-Heptanol C11H24O
to fuel and commercial diesel fuel.
1-Tetradecene C14H30
Tetradecane C14H30 Table 6 Comparison table of NSR -2 fuel and commercial
2,3,5,8-Tetramethyl-Decane C14H30 Diesel.
1-Tridecene C13H26 Fuel Fuel
Generator Duration kWh
Hexadecane C16H34 Name amount
3,7,11-Trimethyl-1-Dodecanol C15H32O NSR-2 AMCO 1 Liter 37 min 2.028
Hexadecane C16H34 Diesel AMCO 1 Liter 28 min 1.463
1-Nonadecene C19H38
Heptadecane C17H36
4. Conclusion
Octadecane C18H38
Nonadecane C19H40 A simple thermal process for de-polymerizing waste
Eicosane C20H42
plastic to useful low sulfur fuel has been developed and
Heniecosane C21H44
Heptacosane C27H56 further refined using a mini scale double condensation
process and fractional distillation process.
226.7 ℃. DSC data indicate that NSR fuel contains a
Characterization studies by GC/MS indicate the
higher percentage of volatile hydrocarbon compounds.
de-polymerization product is essentially all straight
3.1 Electricity Production chain hydrocarbons when linear thermosetting
polymers are used as the feed. Both GC and DSC
Comparison of NSR-2 fuel and commercial diesel
studies indicate the product contains high boiling point
was conduced using an AMCO Diesel Generator. Fig.
indicating hydrocarbons ranging from C9 to C27, a range
7 and Table 6 demonstrate the comparative results
that can perform the same functions as commercial
between the two fuels. The results indicate that the
diesel fuel.
NSR-2 fuel provided a longer run time of the generator
than the diesel. This is due to the NSR fuel having Acknowledgement
longer carbon chains than the diesel fuel.
The authors acknowledge the support of Dr. Karin
3.2 ASTM Test Result of Waste Plastic to Produce Fuel Kaufman, the founder of Natural State Research, Inc
Some ASTM tests have been conducted on the (NSR). The authors also acknowledge the valuable
NSR-2 fuel to verify its compounds. Table 7 shows the contributions NSR laboratory team members during
results of the ASTM tests. the preparation of this manuscript.
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