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Pastimes : Plastics to Oil - Pyrolysis and Secret Catalysts and Alterna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steady_on who wrote (26737)	7/25/2012 1:11:15 AM
From: PaperProphet	Respond to of 53574

Again, Steady_on, there are two parts to that. One is the cost of procuring the feedstock and processing it...and the second is the price the output can get. If Mr. Bordynuik uses municipal solid waste or another varied mixture of wastes such as raggertail, he can even get paid to take it...but the output will have the oxygenated and other compounds with which every other pyrolysis process struggles to find value. If Mr. Bordynuik obtains HDPE or PP, there's no doubt that the output will be largely a hydrocarbon liquid and probably have some decent value...just like every other pyrolysis process. But then those plastics have a very high value as scrap which would eliminate any profit. So, is your "$10/bbl" number for mixed waste...or did Mr. Bordynuik somehow manage to beat the market for scrap plastic and get $500/ton scrap plastic for virtually free?