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To: Buckey who wrote (30)	3/4/2010 9:24:53 PM
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Turning mixed plastic wastes into a useable liquid fuel S.L. Low, M.A. Connor and G.H. Covey Department of Chemical Engineering University of Melbourne Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia As CONCLUSION It has been shown that a simple batch pyrolysis method can convert polyolefins and polystyrene to liquid hydrocarbon products with a yield of at least 70%. Preliminary tests using mixed waste plastics were promising and confirmed the feasibility of converting such wastes to liquid products. These liquid products have compositions overlapping those of major existing hydrocarbon fuels such as petrol, diesel and kerosene. Use of these products directly as a fuel or for reprocessing in a refinery therefore appears possible. The study performed in this paper has provided important information showing that prospects for using small-scale simple pyrolysis processes to deal with waste plastics appear good bu further investigations are required. Such investigations should include ways to exclude or remove PET and PVC from mixed plastic wastes; establishing the extent to which patterns of thermal decomposition of plastic mixtures conform to those of the individual polymers present; and elucidation of the impact of additives and/or contaminants on the ways in which plastic mixtures decompose. coveyconsulting.com.au REACTION BEHAVIORS OF MIXED PLASTICS IN LIQUID-PHASE CRACKING. tinyurl.com Interaction of Plastics in Mixed-Plastics Pyrolysis pubs.acs.org