A Study on Extraction of Fuel from Waste Plastic

Mechanical Engineering

There has been an ever increasing global demand for energy in recent years. The demand especially from liquid fuels is very high and the limited resources of fuel production has created bottleneck leading to an energy crisis. This has led to exploring other resources for fuel production, one of which is plastic. Being a non-degradable source, plastics disposed off in the open environment as wastes pose a threat to the environment. Most of the waste plastics end up as landfills. It can instead be used as a source for making fuel. The work describes an attempt to use the waste plastic to synthesize potential fuel called ‘Pyrolysis Oil’ since the process used in order to obtain the oil is Pyrolysis. The obtained oil from different grades of waste plastics is analysed so as to validate its use as fuel.The paper deals with extracting pyrolysis oil from waste polymers by fabricating an furnace to carry out pyrolysis.Solid waste is the useless, unwanted and discarded material resulting from day to day activities in the community. Solid waste management may be defined as the discipline associated with the control of generation, storage, collection, transfer, processing and disposal of solid waste. Solid Waste management is one of the vital issues in the contemporary urban environment, more particularly in developing countries. The one effective way of utilizing the the solid waste is to convert them into the fuels. Production of bio gas is a very effective way of utilizing the solid waste

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