Effect of Wood Biomass Addition on the Char Making Process of Waste Plastic for Controlling the Combustion Efficiency

✍ Scribed by Ito, Y.; Hasegawa, M.; Kashiwaya, Y.; Iwase, M.

• Book ID: 120576700
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 450 KB
• Volume: 31
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0334-6455
• DOI: 10.1515/htmp-2012-0082

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

After Kyoto protocol, many companies and institutions in the industrialized countries focused on the energy saving and the utilization of waste heat and materials widely for reducing the CO~2~ emission. In such a circumstance, it is key technology for reducing CO~2~ emission by using the waste materials efficiently such as a plastic and wood biomass.

In this paper, a method for improving the reactivity of plastic char using wood biomass was investigated. The XRD analysis was performed for elucidating the carbon structure change by addition of wood to PE (polyethylene) and reactivity test with O~2~ gas was carried out to clarify the reaction rates of the mixtures of PE and wood.

It was found that the crystallization degree of char decreased continuously with the addition of wood to polyethylene, which meant that the reactivity of polyethylene char increased.