Production of Fuel from Plastic using Electricity

Abstract

The amount of plastic generation all over the world over the years has increased because the application of plastic has also increased in many different sectors. Which caused the accumulation of waste plastic all over the world in landfill and water bodies such as oceans. The demand of plastic has grown exponentially over the years as it demands and application increases in various sectors. As plastic is a petroleum-based product it affects the petroleum reserves as petroleum is fossil fuel and is non renewable in nature. There are a few methods which has been used in order to decrease the accumulated plastic waste such as recycling and techniques to recover energy. But there are many problems and obstacles associated with recycling method are there is a requirement of sorting process which is a labor-intensive process and during these process water pollutions also occurs which decreases the sustainability of the method. As these methods are not very effective, methods to convert plastic waste into some kind of fuel was developed which required a lot of research and advanced innovations. As plastic was product of petroleum, the fuel produced during pyrolysis of plastic also have high calorific value like a normal petroleum fuel. Which could be used in place of the already existing fuels. Electrical heating can be applied for the purpose of heating the plastic and obtaining fuel. As we are not burning any fuel so the pyrolysis of plastic using electrical energy is a clean process. Moreover, each and every end product is used in effective manner.