Study of the slow batch pyrolysis of mixtures of plastics, tyres and forestry biomass wastes

✍ Scribed by Filipe Paradela; Filomena Pinto; Ana M. Ramos; I. Gulyurtlu; I. Cabrita

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 949 KB
• Volume: 85
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0165-2370
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jaap.2008.09.003

✦ Synopsis

This work aimed to study the recovery of three types of waste by the process of pyrolysis: biomass, plastics and used tyres. The effects of experimental conditions in products yield and composition were studied. The increase of reaction time increased alkane content both in gas phase from 53% to 70% v/v and in liquid fraction from 48% to 60% w/w. The rise of reaction temperature led to a decrease of liquid yield (from 82% to 73% w/w), which was followed by the increase of solids and gases. The increase of reaction temperature also allowed the increase of the alkane content in gas phase from 39% to 70% v/v. The parameter that most affected products yield and composition was plastics content on the wastes initial mixture. The enhancement of this parameter increased liquid yield from 33% to 92% w/w, at the expense of solids and gases contents and also decreased aromatic contents from 52% to 28% w/w.