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Chemical Recycling of Plastics by Microwave‐Assisted High‐Temperature Pyrolysis

Use of plastics faces much criticism because of its shocking and increasing impact on the environment. But banning plastic will not help the environment. Only appropriate recycling of plastic waste can give satisfying solution. A lab‐scale chemical recycling method, in which a mixture of plastic was...

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Autores principales: Jiang, Haibin, Liu, Wenlu, Zhang, Xiaohong, Qiao, Jinliang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7117841/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32257380
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/gch2.201900074
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Liu, Wenlu
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description Use of plastics faces much criticism because of its shocking and increasing impact on the environment. But banning plastic will not help the environment. Only appropriate recycling of plastic waste can give satisfying solution. A lab‐scale chemical recycling method, in which a mixture of plastic wastes and plant oil is continuously cracked into ethylene, propylene, and other useful chemicals by using microwave‐assisted high‐temperature pyrolysis, is developed. The method has delivered interesting leads that provide the basis for setting up a new process. Based on the encouraging results, a “drop‐in” method for a renewable and circular polymer industry is also proposed. If it is commercially realized, plastic waste and plant oils will be the feedstock for the polymer industry and this industry will become renewable and circular.
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spelling pubmed-71178412020-04-03 Chemical Recycling of Plastics by Microwave‐Assisted High‐Temperature Pyrolysis Jiang, Haibin Liu, Wenlu Zhang, Xiaohong Qiao, Jinliang Glob Chall Communications Use of plastics faces much criticism because of its shocking and increasing impact on the environment. But banning plastic will not help the environment. Only appropriate recycling of plastic waste can give satisfying solution. A lab‐scale chemical recycling method, in which a mixture of plastic wastes and plant oil is continuously cracked into ethylene, propylene, and other useful chemicals by using microwave‐assisted high‐temperature pyrolysis, is developed. The method has delivered interesting leads that provide the basis for setting up a new process. Based on the encouraging results, a “drop‐in” method for a renewable and circular polymer industry is also proposed. If it is commercially realized, plastic waste and plant oils will be the feedstock for the polymer industry and this industry will become renewable and circular. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-02-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7117841/ /pubmed/32257380 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/gch2.201900074 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Published by WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Chemical Recycling of Plastics by Microwave‐Assisted High‐Temperature Pyrolysis
title_sort chemical recycling of plastics by microwave‐assisted high‐temperature pyrolysis
topic Communications
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7117841/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32257380
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/gch2.201900074
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