India could carburer to plastic

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by moinsdewatt » 28/09/15, 18:39

Agilyx in the USA: They process 50 tonnes of plastic a day.

Battling plasticulture

January 20, 2014

In 2001, Kevin DeWhitt packed an office cubicle from floor to ceiling with plastic, melted it, filled a truck's gas tank with the liquid goo, and then drove around the perimeter of Kelso, Wash., Twice. What, he wondered, if this could be done on a much larger scale? Three years later, the chemist formed Agilyx in Tigard, Ore.

Turning plastic into fuel isn't novel; energy- and land-restricted areas of Asia have long done it, for example. But making Agilyx commercially viable in the US required millions in investment and the cooperation of waste managers and refineries. DeWhitt kept it simple: Create technology to go where the waste stream is, and let refineries transform the oil into usable road fuels.

"If we can reuse the hydrocarbons in plastic," says DeWhitt, Americans won't have to drill for more oil "to replace what we buried in a landfill." The petroleum can also be used to create other materials that aren't burned. The US recycles less than 10 percent of plastics, mostly bottles; the rest gets tossed into landfills or shipped to Asia.

The Agilyx system used by Waste Management in north Portland, Ore., Can take up to 50 tons per day of dirty, oily, hard-to-recycle mixed plastic, such as the plastic film and tubing used in agriculture. Heat from the reactor breaks up the long, heavy polymer chains and converts them to a gas. After cooling in the condenser, light, sweet crude oil oozes out. The byproducts include water, small quantities of inert char and burnable gases, leaving a trivial environmental footprint.

Last year, the US consumed around 18.5 million barrels of oil per day. Agilyx's setup can capture enough fuel to fill more than 200 SUV tanks each day. In addition to Waste Management, companies in Minnesota and Georgia have already adopted Agilyx's technology. At least four other US-based plastics-to-oil companies are trying to get into the game on a commercial scale, and several others with operations overseas hope to expand into the US There's plenty of waste for everyone, says DeWhitt. "Let's just make sure between us we get it all."

http://www.hcn.org/issues/46.1/battling-plasticulture

There is also the company CYNAR.

But now with a barrel at $ 50 their economic model must be at their worst ......
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by chatelot16 » 28/09/15, 18:57

of course the low price of current oil does not encourage plastic recovery solutions

however if we better use plastic as fuel there would be less plastic to pollute the sea

Liberalism also does not know how to manage the future: it would be desirable to favor the use of plastic in thermal power stations, to save oil and keep it for the stuff where it is essential

hot countries do not need heat ... hot countries which have too much sun can make solar ovens to pyrolyze plastic ... even if you need 2kwh of solar heat to make 1kwh of fuel with plastic that can be profitable because there is no meter on the sun ... 2kwh from solar panel it is expensive to store them in a battery ... 2kwh of sun transformed into 1kwh of fuel oil everyone is happy

only problem, those who have a lot of sun currently have no industrial means to advance ... and the rich countries do not have a regular enough sun to think of the solar oven ... and the rich countries are still too rich to try to save money
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by elephant » 29/09/15, 17:05

Chatelot16 said:

hot countries do not need heat ... hot countries which have too much sun can make solar ovens to pyrolyze plastic ... even if you need 2kwh of solar heat to make 1kwh of fuel with plastic that can be profitable


This is exactly what I think of: a small end of the valley, some mirrors mounted on pylons with solar panels and presto (and a fence to prevent the curious from being grilled :D )
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