Extraction of Fuel from Waste Plastic Using Pyrolysis

Abstract

There is an increase in the production and consumption of plastics as the day goes by. All the plastics need to be disposed after their usefulness, as waste from plastic become more apparent. This leads to pyrolysis, which is away of making to become very useful by recycling them to produce fuel oil. In this project plastic wastes were used for the pyrolysis to get fuel oil that has the same physical properties as the fuel used in aviation industry.

In this project a pyrolysis reactor is reactor is fabricated in order to extract pyrolysis fuel from waste plastics. It includes a rector and a condenser. Reactor to melt the waste and the condenser is to condense fuel vapour. No catalystis used since the use of catalyst produce fuel with more toxic smell. The property of fuel is checked and compared with diesel after extraction and found that the fuel produced is having property same as that of conventional.