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To: Rawnoc who wrote (92332)12/1/2009 11:43:49 PM
From: zen_lunatic4202 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) of 120415
 
Rawnoc, I think most second graders realize that plastics are petroleum derived. The science of reverting plastics back to oil is nothing new either....but efficiency and quality are the obtacles of it ever being practical on a commercial scale.

It's certainly well known that plastics can be broken back down into short chain hyrocarbons....it's just the purity of those oils that's in question....and the management of the byproducts of the process. I doubt is that their process can be scaled-up and efficiently produce an oil pure enough to meet API standards. I doubt i can be done without giving off hazardous byproducts that would require expensive air controls and hazardous waste disposal costs. These are the issues I was referring to when I spoke of a "materials balance". While a process can work great at the bench scale, when operations are scaled-up and real world factors come into play, you'll find your process yielding contaminated product and giving off hazardous pollutants.

Essentially my point is, I suspect most believers in JBII's P2O don't even know enough about organic chemistry to know how much they don't know about organic chemistry.

Let me know when they get the air permits for their first system and sell their first batch to a commercial refinery.
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