And polystyrene waste plastics using thermal cracking and activated carbon moinuddin sarker and mohammad mamunor rashid department of research and development, natural state research inc, 37 brown house road 2 nd floor stamford, ct 06902, usa, phone. Sadikur rahman 1 and mohammed molla 1 1department of research and development, natural state research inc. Waste plastic is creating environmental problem all over the world. A method for producing fuels such as liquid and solid fuels from waste materials comprising rubber or plastic waste, is disclosed. Research paper thermal conversion of polymer wastes ldpe. The experiment is conducted under a fume hood and open air system, no vacuum process is applied in this particular thermal cracking process. First simple and easy process of thermal degrading municipal waste plastics into fuel resource moinuddin sarker, mohammad mamunor rashid natural state research, inc. Alternative diesel grade fuel transformed from polypropylene pp municipal waste plastic using thermal cracking with fractional column distillation. Production of valuable heavy hydrocarbon fuel oil by. Citeseerx thermal conversion of polymer wastes ldpe. Moinuddin sarker, mohammad mamunor rashid, muhammad sadikur rahman. Waste plastic conversion into chemical product like naphtha. Alternative diesel grade fuel transformed from polypropylene pp. Huang, catalytic plastics cracking for recovery of gasolinerange hydrocarbons from municipal.
The first thermal cracking process for breaking up large nonvolatile hydrocarbons into gasoline came into use in 19. Thermal cracking is one of the most important procedural steps in the refinery for converting crude oil into the lighter and valuable petroleum products such as gasoline or petrol, diesel fuel, residual heavy oil, coke, and many gases such as c1, c2, c3, c4 methane, ethane, propane, butane. Moinuddin sarker, mohammad mamunor rashid, mohammed molla. Citeseerx thermal conversion of polymer wastes ldpe into. First simple and easy process of converting waste plastics. High energy content liquid hydrocarbon fuel from mixture of polypropylene and polystyrene waste plastics using thermal cracking and activated carbon authors. Pdf different types of fuel produce from municipal solid. The technology is based on a littleknown fact about plastic. Polypropylene waste plastic conversion into fuel oil by. And polystyrene waste plastics using thermal cracking and activated carbon moinuddin sarkerand mohammad mamunor rashid department of research and development, natural state research inc, 37 brown house road 2 nd floor stamford, ct 06902, usa, phone. Apr 12, 2001 moinuddin sarker, mohammad mamunor rashid, mohammed molla. After plastic is used, it becomes waste plastic trash.
Moinuddin sarker, mohammad mamunor rashid, mohammed molla, muhammad sadikur rahman, method of converting municipal proportional waste plastics into liquid hydrocarbon fuel by using activated carbon, international journal of materials and chemistry, vol. Sarker, the president, ceo and cto of waste technologies, llc wtl since 20, is the sole owner of the company. Steam cracking is the main method of breaking down large molecules of hydrocarbons, in. Research paper thermal conversion of polymer wastes. Thermal degradation of waste plastics is one method currently being investigated as. Method for converting waste plastic to hydrocarbon fuel materials dr. Waste hdpe plastic, deformation into liquid hydrocarbon fuel using pyrolysiscatalytic cracking with a cuco 3 catalyst. Received 18 th november 2011 accepted 2nd february 2012 online ready 29 th. Low density polyethylene ldpe waste plastic was transformed into heavy fuel by using fractional distillation column process with liquefaction process. Waste hdpe plastic, deformation into liquid hydrocarbon fuel.
The cracking of the waxes obtained in the flash pyrolysis of polypropylene has been studied in laboratory fcc units under the standard conditions in fcc fluid catalytic cracking units. Moinuddin sarker, mohammmad mamunor rashid, muhammad sadikur rahman, mohammed molla. Mohammed molla, alternative diesel grade fuel transformed from polypropylene pp municipal waste plastic using thermal cracking with fractional column distillation, energy and power engineering, vol. Method for converting waste plastic to hydrocarbon fuel. Sarker came on board in 2005, and by 2010, he had refined the pyrolysislike process he calls thermal cracking. Waste plastic using thermal cracking with fractional column distillation. Day by day, in every sector, plastics use is increasing all over the world. Thermal cracking with fractional column distillation. Catalytic cracking of polyethylene over clay catalysts. Method of converting municipal proportional waste plastics. Other articles where thermal cracking is discussed. Citeseerx document details isaac councill, lee giles, pradeep teregowda. Hydrocarbons thermal cracking selectivity depending on.
Low density polyethylene ldpe waste plastic transformation. Man vir singh a, sudesh kumar a and moinuddin sarker b a department of chemistry, banasthali vidyapith, rajasthan 304022, india. Hydrocarbons thermal cracking selectivity depending on their structure and cracking parameters state of art 3 2 state of art the thermal decomposition of alkanes has been extensively studied since the early thirties. Sadikur rahman abstract starting of plastics invention has many uses and application. Thermal cracking definition is cracking of petroleum or similar oils by means of heat and pressure alone distinguished from catalytic cracking. Journal of fundamentals of renewable energy and applications 2011, 1, 112. M description hdpe waste plastic to fuel production process was described 46. Production of valuable heavy hydrocarbon fuel oil by thermal.
Feb 29, 2012 a steel reactor with temperature range from 100. Low density polyethylene ldpe waste plastic transformation into renewable heavy fuel using thermal cracking. Alternative diesel grade fuel transformed from polypropylene pp municipal waste plastic using thermal cracking with fractional column distillation by moinuddin sarker, mohammmad mamunor rashid, muhammad sadikur rahman and mohammed molla. Low density polyethylene ldpe waste plastic transformation into. Moinuddin sarker, mohammmad mamunor rashid, muhammad sadikur rahman. Cracking of normal paraffins having long chains, beginning at a very low degree of cracking, about 0. For experimental purpose two types of temperature profiles were used one for ldpe waste plastic liquefaction temperature and another one for fractional distillation column temperature.
Light hydrocarbons produced from high density polyethylene. Moinuddin sarker, mohammad mamunor rashid, mohammad molla and md. Us4851601a processing for producing hydrocarbon oils from. Thermal conversion process was applies with low density polyethylene ldpe waste plastic without using any kind of cracking catalyst, and two types of temperature was use for diesel grade fuel collection. Coke formation during thermal cracking of a heavy crude oil laura cristina ur an castano thesis presented as a partial requirement to obtain the degree of. High energy content liquid hydrocarbon fuel from mixture. Moinuddin sarker et al low density polyethylene ldpe waste plastic transformation 142 into renewable heavy fuel using thermal cracking chain hydrocarbon compound showing at retention time 28. Thermal cracking definition and meaning collins english. An alternative to improve gasoline yield from plastics pyrolysis is to introduce suitable catalysts. Thermal cracking is an extraction process in which hydrocarbons such as crude oil are. Moinuddin sarker, mohammad mamunor rashid, and mohammed molla.
Steam cracking definition and meaning collins english. Department of research and development, 37 brown house road 2nd floor, stamford, ct 06902, usa. Thermal cracking definition of thermal cracking by merriam. Sarker, moinuddin, mohammmad mamunor rashid, muhammad sadikur rahman and. Thermal or catalytic cracking of waste plastics is one of the possible. Catalytic cracking of waxes produced by the fast pyrolysis of. Molla, alternative diesel grade fuel transformed from polypropylene pp municipal waste plastic using thermal cracking with. Experimental purposed ldpe waste plastic was use 100 % by weight and initial feed ldpe sample was 800 gm. First simple and easy process of thermal degrading municipal. International journal on advanced science, engineering and. Thermal conversion of polymer wastes ldpe into hydrocarbon diesel fuel without cracking catalysts moinuddin sarker 1, mohammad mamunor rashid 2 and muhammad sadikur rahman 3 1, 2, 3 natural state research, inc. In this case thermal cracking into hydrocarbons may provide a suitable. In the fuel all hydrocarbon 394 compounds contains heavy hydrocarbon and their. Plastic scrap, especially of polyolefin plastics, is converted to low pour point oils by thermal cracking in the liquid phase followed by catalytic conversion of the vaporous cracking products over an intermediate pore size zeolite such as zsm5.
Simple thermal degradation was used to melt the plastics at temperature. Now with the help of a new investor he is striking out on his own to put this process into action. Every year, 280 million tons of waste plastic is generated worldwide. Abundant highdensity polyethylene hdpe2 turns into fuel by using of hzsm5 catalyst. Thermal cracking with fractional distillation process was performed with ldpe waste plastic and produced fractional heavy fuel without using any kind of catalyst. Waste plastic conversion into chemical product like naphtha moinuddin sarker, mohammad mamunor rashid, and mohammed molla department of research and development, natural state research, inc. C is utilized for the plastic thermal degradation process. Waste plastic to fuel waste to energy thermal degredation cracking hydrocarbon fuels. Method of converting municipal proportional waste plastics into. Hydrocarbon fuel analysis by gas chromatography and mass.
Waste hdpe plastic, deformation into liquid hydrocarbon fuel using. The conversion data were well represented by a firstorder kinetic law with a preexponential factor of 5. Sarker came on board in 2005, and by 2010, he had refined the pyrolysislike process he. Pdf conversion of low density polyethylene ldpe and. Moinuddin sarker, phd, mcic, ficer, minstp, mrsc, farss. In contrast, thermal cracking at low temperatures is usually aimed at the production of waxy oil fractions, which may be used in industrial units for steam cracking and in fluid catalytic cracking units 3.
Municipal solid waste plastic of pp5 and ps6 by using thermal cracking. First waste plastic conversion into liquid fuel by using muffle. Moinuddin sarker, mohammad mamunor rashid, muhammad sadikur. It has been shown that in the cracking of normal paraffins with a long chain, the retarding action of the olefins formed is compensated or even overcome as a result of formation of radicals from decomposition of the olefins at the c. Conversion of low density polyethylene ldpe and polypropylene pp waste plastics into liquid fuel using thermal cracking process. Heavy fuel using thermal cracking, world environment, vol. Pyrolysiscatalytic cracking is a chemical recycling technique whereby by using a suitable catalyst gives the. Waste polypropylene plastic conversion into liquid.
This led to the discovery of the reactive intermediates. Waste polypropylene plastic conversion into liquid hydrocarbon fuel for producing electricity and energies moinuddin sarker natural state research, inc. Akpanudoh, karishma gobin, george manos, catalytic degradation of plastic waste to liquid fuel over commercial cracking catalysts effect of polymer to catalyst ratioacidity content, journal of molecular catalysis a. Moinuddin sarker, mohammad mamunor rashid, muhammad sadikur rahman, mohammed molla. Two types of temperature were used for this experiment one was liquefaction temperature and another one was. Alternative diesel grade fuel transformed from polypropylene. Pp waste plastics into liquid fuel using thermal cracking processmore. Converting waste plastics into fuel hold great promise for both the. Pdf polypropylene waste plastic conversion into fuel oil by. The reaction equipment is provided with a riser simulator reactor, and the experiments have been carried out using a commercial equilibrium catalyst, with a catalystfeed ratio of co 5. Bartha, petrochemical feedstock by thermal cracking of plastic waste, j anal appl pyrolysis, 79 2007, 409414.