Refinery oil fraction fuels obtained from polyethylene catalytic cracking employing heteropolyacid-MCM-41 materials

Alberto Hernández, Luis Noreña, Lifang Chen, Jin An Wang, Julia Aguilar

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Abstract

We report the thermal and catalytic decomposition of low density polyethylene (LDPE) as a recycling route of plastic solid waste. The reaction system consisted of a fixed-bed reactor at a 450 °C reaction temperature and a 40 min reaction time. Tungstophosphoric acid (H3PW 12O40)- functionalized ordered mesoporous materials MCM-41 were employed as catalysts. Results show that using this technical approach, on one hand, environmentally unfriendly waste can be disposed and, on the other hand, valuable and widely used fuels can be obtained.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in New Catalytic Materials
Pages236-245
Number of pages10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event2nd International Symposium on New Catalytic Materials, NCM-2 - Cancun, Mexico
Duration: 16 Aug 200920 Aug 2009

Publication series

NameAdvanced Materials Research
Volume132
ISSN (Print)1022-6680

Conference

Conference2nd International Symposium on New Catalytic Materials, NCM-2
Country/TerritoryMexico
CityCancun
Period16/08/0920/08/09

Keywords

  • Environmental catalysis
  • Heteropolyacid
  • MCM-41
  • Waste plastic recycling

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