ReviewWaste management (New York, N.Y.)2022
Opportunities and challenges for the application of post-consumer plastic waste pyrolysis oils as steam cracker feedstocks: To decontaminate or not to decontaminate?
Review in Waste management (New York, N.Y.), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
32 citing papers in PubMed.
- COJournal of CO(2) utilization · 2026Article
- Process Design and Greenhouse Gas Analysis of an Electrified Mixed Plastic Waste-to-Olefins Value Chain.Industrial & engineering chemistry research · 2026Article
- Recycling of Flexible Plastic Films: Emergent Technologies.Polymers · 2026Review
- Delamination of Multilayer Plastic Films to Recover Polyethylene with Favorable Mechanical Properties.ACS sustainable chemistry & engineering · 2026Article
- A Kinetic Model-Driven Techno-Economic Analysis of Plastic Pyrolysis: Linking Process Dynamics to Economic Viability.Industrial & engineering chemistry research · 2026Article
- PVC Waste to Fuel: Pyrolysis Oil Upgrading through Catalytic Hydrodechlorination.Energy & fuels : an American Chemical Society journal · 2026Article
- Advances in the Application of Low-Cost, Natural Materials, and Waste-Derived Catalysts for Catalytic Upgrading of Plastic and Biomass Pyrolysis Oil.Energy & fuels : an American Chemical Society journal · 2026Review
- Transitioning of the Chemical Industry Toward a Net-Zero Carbon Dioxide Emission Path.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026Article
- Engineering microbial consortia for mixed plastic upcycling.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Upcycling of Waste Plastics into Carboxylic Acids for Biodegradable Surfactants.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025Article
- Experimental and Analytical Tools for the Chemical Recycling of Engineering Plastics - A Multi-Scale Pyrolysis Study on Polydicyclopentadiene.Macromolecular rapid communications · 2025Article
- Thermal Oxo-degradation and Catalytic Upgrading of Plastic Waste to Light Olefins for a Circular Economy.Energy & fuels : an American Chemical Society journal · 2025Article
- Pyrolysis of Polypropylene and Nitrile PPE Waste: Insights into Oil Composition, Kinetics, and Steam Cracker Integration.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Chemical Feedstock Recovery Through Plastic Pyrolysis: Challenges and Perspectives Toward a Circular Economy.ChemSusChem · 2025Review
- Pyrolysis of Dutch mixed plastic waste: Lifecycle GHG emissions and carbon recovery efficiency assessment.Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA · 2025Article
- Enabling Informed Decisions on Pyrolysis: A Key to Turn the Tide on Plastics Recycling.ACS sustainable chemistry & engineering · 2025Review
- Advancing Textile Waste Recycling: Challenges and Opportunities Across Polymer and Non-Polymer Fiber Types.Polymers · 2025Review
- Plastic Devolatilisation Kinetics During Isothermal High-Temperature Pyrolysis: Focus on Solid Products (Part I).Polymers · 2025Article
- Article
- Untangling the chemical complexity of plastics to improve life cycle outcomes.Nature reviews. Materials · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Thermochemical recycling of plastic waste to base chemicals via pyrolysis followed by a minimal amount of upgrading and steam cracking is expected to be the dominant chemical recycling technology in the coming decade. However, there are substantial safety and operational risks when using plastic waste pyrolysis oils instead of conventional fossil-based feedstocks. This is due to the fact that plastic waste pyrolysis oils contain a vast amount of contaminants which are the main drivers for corrosion, fouling and downstream catalyst poisoning in industrial steam cracking plants. Contaminants are therefore crucial to evaluate the steam cracking feasibility of these alternative feedstocks. Indeed, current plastic waste pyrolysis oils exceed typical feedstock specifications for numerous known contaminants, e.g. nitrogen (∼1650 vs. 100 ppm max.), oxygen (∼1250 vs. 100 ppm max.), chlorine (∼1460vs. 3 ppm max.), iron (∼33 vs. 0.001 ppm max.), sodium (∼0.8 vs. 0.125 ppm max.)and calcium (∼17vs. 0.5 ppm max.). Pyrolysis oils produced from post-consumer plastic waste can only meet the current specifications set for industrial steam cracker feedstocks if they are upgraded, with hydrogen based technologies being the most effective, in combination with an effective pre-treatment of the plastic waste such as dehalogenation. Moreover, steam crackers are reliant on a stable and predictable feedstock quality and quantity representing a challenge with plastic waste being largely influenced by consumer behavior, seasonal changes and local sorting efficiencies. Nevertheless, with standardization of sorting plants this is expected to become less problematic in the coming decade.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.