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Assessment of Practical Use of Recycling Oil from the Pyrolysis of Mixed Waste Plastics  

Phae Chae-Gun (Department of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Seoul National University of Technology)
Kim Young-shin (Department of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Seoul National University of Technology)
Jo Chang-Ho (Department of Energy and Environmental Engineering)
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Journal of Energy Engineering / v.14, no.2, 2005 , pp. 159-166 More about this Journal
Abstract
In Korea, although the generation of waste plastic has been increasing, the rate of recycling is considerably low and moreover, there is no suitable method for the treatment of waste plastics. However, pyrolysis, which is appropriate for the treatment of highly polymerized compounds, such as plastics, has recently gained much interest. In this study, a property of the products from the pyrolysis of mixed waste plastics, with a possible practical use for the recycling oil produced, were assessed. First of all, in order to investigate the pyrolysis characteristic of waste plastics, TGA (Thermogravimetric analysis) and DCS (Differential Scanning Calorimetry) were performed on a number of different plastics, including PP, LDPE, HDPE, PET and PS, as well as others. According to the result, it appeared that PP was the most efficiently pyrolyzed by changing the temperature, followed by LDPE, HDPE, PET, PS and the other plastics, in that order. From the results, the optimum conditions f3r pyrolysis were set up, and the different waste plastics pyrolyzed. The recycling oil produced from the flammable gases generated during the pyrolysis was com-pared with fuel oil by an analysis using the petroleum quality inspection method on KS(Korea industrial Standard). The results of the analysis showed the recycling oil was of a similar standard to fuel oil, with the exception of the ignition point, with a quality somewhere between that of paraffin oil and diesel fuel. With respect to these results, the quality of the recycling oil produced by the pyrolysis of waste plastics was suf-ficient for use as fuel oil.
Keywords
Pyrolysis; Mixed waste plastics; Recycling oil; TGA; DCS;
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