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ArticleEnvironmental science and pollution research international2021

Conversion of waste plastics into low emissive hydrocarbon fuel using catalyst produced from biowaste.

Nandakumar Jahnavi, Kumar Kanmani, Ponnusamy Senthil Kumar, Sunita Varjani

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Article in Environmental science and pollution research international, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Nandakumar JahnaviDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, Chennai, 603110, India.
Kumar KanmaniDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, Chennai, 603110, India.
Ponnusamy Senthil KumarDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, Chennai, 603110, India. senthilchem8582@gmail.com.
Sunita VarjaniGujarat Pollution Control Board, Sector-10A, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, 382010, India. drsvs18@gmail.com.
Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research · INCentral Pollution Control Board · INSri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Among the prevalent methods already in existence for the plastic waste management, catalytic pyrolysis has been proved to be an efficient one. The research work involved the synthesis of the catalyst from eucalyptus seeds, a commercially available agricultural waste product aided in pyrolysis. The raw eucalyptus seeds were cleaned, powdered, and surface-modified using sulphuric acid. Analysis of the surface-reformed eucalyptus seeds showed that they possess the characteristics equivalent to the activated carbon and micropores similar to that of zeolite which is used as a catalyst for pyrolysis. Hence, the prepared catalyst was used in the pyrolysis process and its performance was compared with that of the commercial activated carbon and zeolite. Zeolite Y generally lowers the temperature of the pyrolysis reaction to 180-190 °C, while the produced catalyst made the pyrolysis reaction possible between 120 and 130 °C. The output of the pyrolysis reaction was a hydrocarbon oil, which was analysed using gas chromatography-flame ionization detector (GC-FID). The oil was found to have a composition between C

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HydrocarbonsPlasticsCatalysisPyrolysisWaste ProductsHydrocarbonsPlasticsWaste ProductsActivated CarbonAlternative FuelCatalytic pyrolysisEucalyptus seedsPlastic wastesPolypropyleneZeolite

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