Microwave pyrolysis of coal, biomass and plastic waste: a review

A Suresh, A Alagusundaram, PS Kumar… - Environmental …, 2021 - Springer
Growing concerns over climate change have prompted the quest for renewable energies to
mitigate adverse impacts caused by the excessive use of fossil fuels. In particular, using …

[HTML][HTML] Co-pyrolysis of biomass and waste plastics for production of chemicals and liquid fuel: A review on the role of plastics and catalyst types

AH Zulkafli, H Hassan, MA Ahmad, ATM Din… - Arabian Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The increasing global fuel consumption and growing environmental concerns are the
impetuses to explore alternative energy that is clean and renewable for fuel production …

Insights into the thermal degradation mechanisms of polyethylene terephthalate dimer using DFT method

J Huang, H Meng, X Luo, X Mu, W Xu, L Jin, B Lai - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
The thermal degradation mechanisms of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) dimer were
studied by the B3P86 density functional theory (DFT) approach at 6–31++ G (d, p) base set …

Insight into pyrolysis mechanism of plastic waste with CO/CN bonds in the backbone

G Wang, Z Zhang, D Xu, B Xing, L Zhu… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Pyrolysis is an important method for efficiently recovering plastic monomers, fuels and
chemicals from plastic waste. The depolymerization of the backbone structure of plastic …

[HTML][HTML] Oil and gas production from the pyrolytic transformation of recycled plastic waste: An integral study by polymer families

M Calero, RR Solís, MJ Muñoz-Batista, A Pérez… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Different plastics recovered from a local urban solid waste plant were collected before
landfilling, separated, and classified by families, ie polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP) …

Pyrolysis kinetic modelling of abundant plastic waste (PET) and in-situ emission monitoring

AI Osman, C Farrell, AH Al-Muhtaseb… - Environmental Sciences …, 2020 - Springer
Background Recycling the ever-increasing plastic waste has become an urgent global
concern. One of the most convenient methods for plastic recycling is pyrolysis, owing to its …

Comprehensive Understanding on the Aging Process and Mechanism of Microplastics in the Sediment–Water Interface: Untangling the Role of Photoaging and …

X Su, M Liu, J Dou, Y Tang, Z Lu, J Xu… - … Science & Technology, 2024 - ACS Publications
Microplastics (MPs) in coastal wetlands have been of great concern, but information on the
aging behavior of MPs in the sediment–water interface is still lacking. In this study, the …

Insights into co-pyrolysis of polyethylene terephthalate and polyamide 6 mixture through experiments, kinetic modeling and machine learning

BA Perez, JVJ Krishna, HE Toraman - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
The non-isothermal pyrolysis of polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polyamide 6 (PA6), and
their mixtures was studied in a thermogravimetric analyzer at different heating rates …

Pyrolysis combined with the dry reforming of waste plastics as a potential method for resource recovery—a review of process parameters and catalysts

E Pawelczyk, I Wysocka, J Gębicki - Catalysts, 2022 - mdpi.com
Emissions of greenhouse gases and growing amounts of waste plastic are serious
environmental threats that need urgent attention. The current methods dedicated to waste …

Environmental analysis, monitoring, and process control strategy for reduction of greenhouse gaseous emissions in thermochemical reactions

M Aboughaly, IMR Fattah - Atmosphere, 2023 - mdpi.com
This review paper illustrates the recommended monitoring technologies for the detection of
various greenhouse gaseous emissions for solid waste thermochemical reactions, including …