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Journal of Environmental Waste Management and Recycling | Volume 1

March 05-06, 2018 | London, UK

Recycling & Waste Management

International Conference on

ost-consumer Plastic waste creates severe environmental

issues in the eco system during their disposal, due to their

inherent non-biodegradable nature. Currently in India nearly

15,500 TPD of waste plastic are generated and nearly 60%

of them are collected and mechanically recycled while the

remaining 40%, which could not be mechanically recycled,

are uncollected and littered and enters in to MSW as land

filling. In this aspect, Chemical or Feedstock recycling of waste

polymer is particularly beneficial for it is environmentally safe

and generates more useful chemicals. Thus development of

value added recycling technologies is highly desirable as it

would increase the economic incentive to recycle the waste

plastics. This paper discusses the pyrolysis of mixed post-

consumer waste plastics with various catalysts in a two stage

process involving pyrolysis followed by catalytic cracking.

The yields of resultant value added products like Diesel,

Gasoline and Aromatics are evaluated under various process

conditions. The resultant liquid fuels are characterized for

BIS specifications and studied in internal combustion engine

for their suitability as the transportation fuel. The gaseous

products are analyzed for their chemical composition and

energy content. Moreover, the by products like char are

also characterized and their uses are also explored. The

appropriateness of this process is also evaluated using the

frame work of SWOT. Further recommendations and way

forward for scale up studies also indicated

Recovery of value added products from post-consumer waste plastics through chemical recycling

T Nandakumar

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Sanat Kumar

GAIL, India

Indian Institute of Petroleum, India