Study on production of liquid fuels from plastic wastes

This work aimed to study the conversion of different types of plastic waste to liquid fuel oil by thermal and catalytic pyrolysis using bentonite and alumina as a catalyst in a laboratory scale semi-batch reactor. The pyrolysis of different types of plastic waste was carried out and optimum conditions were evaluated by changing various parameters such as pyrolysis temperature from 490°C to 550°C, using different types of catalyst such as bentonite or alumina, using different catalyst to plastic waste ratios of 1:2, 1:3, 1:4 and 1:5 and change of reaction time values from 16 to 48 minutes.