Energy recovery of waste plastics into diesel fuel with ethanol and ethoxy ethyl acetate additives on circular economy strategy

The widespread use of plastic goods creates huge disposal issues and environmental concerns. Increasing emphasis has been paid to the notion of a circular economy, which might have a significant impact on the demand for plastic raw materials. Post-consumer plastics recycling is a major focus of the...

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Published in:Scientific reports 2022-03, Vol.12 (1), p.5330-5330, Article 5330
Main Authors: Padmanabhan, Sambandam, Giridharan, K., Stalin, Balasubramaniam, Kumaran, Subramanian, Kavimani, V., Nagaprasad, N., Tesfaye Jule, Leta, Krishnaraj, Ramaswamy
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Language:English
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Acetic acid
Alternative fuels
Carbon monoxide
Circular economy
Consumption
Diesel
Diesel fuels
Economics
Emission standards
Emissions control
Energy recovery
Ethanol
Ethyl acetate
High density polyethylenes
Humanities and Social Sciences
multidisciplinary
Plastic debris
Plastics
Plastics recycling
Polyethylene
Pyrolysis
Raw materials
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
Waste recovery
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Summary:The widespread use of plastic goods creates huge disposal issues and environmental concerns. Increasing emphasis has been paid to the notion of a circular economy, which might have a significant impact on the demand for plastic raw materials. Post-consumer plastics recycling is a major focus of the nation’s circular economy. This study focuses on energy recovery from waste plastics as an alternative fuel source to meet the circular economy demand. Waste plastic fuel produced through pyrolysis has been claimed to be utilized as a substituted fuel. This work focuses to determine the performance and emission standards of Waste Plastic Fuel (WPF) generated from the pyrolysis of High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE) in a single-cylinder Direct Injection Diesel Engine (DIDE). Three different ratios of WPF were combined with 10% ethanol and 10% ethoxy ethyl acetate as an oxygenated additive to create quaternary fuel blends. The ethanol has a low viscosity, a high oxygen content, a high hydrogen-to-carbon ratio as favourable properties, the quaternary fuel results the improved brake thermal efficiency, fuel consumption and reduced emissions. The blend WEE20 exhibits 4.7% higher brake thermal efficiency, and 7.8% reduced fuel consumption compared to the diesel. The quaternary fuel blends demonstrated decreased carbon monoxide of 3.7 to 13.4% and reduced hydrocarbons of 2 to 16% under different load conditions.
ISSN:2045-2322
2045-2322
DOI:10.1038/s41598-022-09148-2