%0 Journal Article
%T Method of Converting Municipal Proportional Waste Plastics into Liquid Hydrocarbon Fuel by Using Activated Carbon
%J International Journal of Materials and Chemistry
%@ 2166-5354
%D 2012
%I 
%R 10.5923/j.ijmc.20120205.05
%X The demand for fossil fuel is at an all time high worldwide. Annually ~30 billion barrels of petroleum is being consumed worldwide. In this busy society, transportation is vital and, for transportation, petroleum is an obligation. All the major forms of business, agricultural, exports and imports depend on transportation. Transportation requires petroleum to function. Vehicles in the road require fuels, airway transportation requires Aviation fuel and sea transportation requires fuel oil. For not only transportation but also, petroleum is required to make all kind of daily usable plastics. Depletion of petroleum is inevitable at this current rate of consumption. Emissions released from evaporation and combustion of these fuel contributes to too many environmental and health problems; including emitting greenhouse gases that contribute immensely to global warming. Annually ~7 billion tons of carbon dioxide is released to the environment due to petroleum emission. Moreover, when the plastics are discarded into the landfill, it becomes waste plastic and since plastic is non-biodegradable, it can remain in the landfill for thousands of year. Waste plastics presence in the landfill causes environmental problems e.g., it can cause soil to decay. Alternative source of energy created from Solar, Wind, Hydrogen Fuel, Biomass Fuel, Bio-Diesel, Green Diesel, Bio-ethanol, and Geo-thermalhas been proposed as a solution to these problems. A developed process of thermally breaking down the hydrocarbon of chains of plastic has been studied and implemented to produce a liquid fuel in the presence of activated carbon. The activated carbon acts as a filter to absorb dye from the waste plastic during the thermal process to increase the quality of the final product. This fuel can be used for all kinds of transportation, and will emit much less emission compared to the current commercial fuel and it will be cost effective.
%K Waste Plastic
%K Fuel
%K Activated Carbon
%K Thermal
%K GC/MS
%K FT-IR
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