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: Received: 3 April 2024 / Approved: 4 April 2024 / Online: 4 April 2024 (12:58:42 CEST)
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Papuga, S.; Savković, J.; Djurdjevic, M.; Ciprioti, S.V. Effect of Feed Mass, Reactor Temperature and Time on Yield of Waste Plastic Pyrolysis Oil Produced via a Fixed Bed Reactor. Preprints2024, 2024040327. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0327.v1
Papuga, S.; Savković, J.; Djurdjevic, M.; Ciprioti, S.V. Effect of Feed Mass, Reactor Temperature and Time on Yield of Waste Plastic Pyrolysis Oil Produced via a Fixed Bed Reactor. Preprints 2024, 2024040327. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0327.v1
Papuga, S.; Savković, J.; Djurdjevic, M.; Ciprioti, S.V. Effect of Feed Mass, Reactor Temperature and Time on Yield of Waste Plastic Pyrolysis Oil Produced via a Fixed Bed Reactor. Preprints2024, 2024040327. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0327.v1
APA Style
Papuga, S., Savković, J., Djurdjevic, M., & Ciprioti, S.V. (2024). Effect of Feed Mass, Reactor Temperature and Time on Yield of Waste Plastic Pyrolysis Oil Produced via a Fixed Bed Reactor. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0327.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Papuga, S., Milica Djurdjevic and Stefano Vecchio Ciprioti. 2024 "Effect of Feed Mass, Reactor Temperature and Time on Yield of Waste Plastic Pyrolysis Oil Produced via a Fixed Bed Reactor" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0327.v1
Abstract
This paper presents the results of investigations into the pyrolysis of waste polypropylene in a laboratory fixed-bed batch reactor. The experiments were designed and verified in such a way as to allow the application of the Response Surface Methodology (RSM) in the development of an empirical mathematical model that quantifies the impacts mentioned above. The influence of the mass of the raw material (50, 100 and 150 g), together with the reactor temperature (450, 475 and 500 °C) and the reaction time (45, 50 and 75 min) was examined. It has been shown that the mass of the raw material, i.e. the filling volume of the reactor, has a significant influence on the pyrolysis oil yield. This influence exceeds the influence of reactor temperature and reaction time. This was explained by observing the temperature change inside the reactor at three different spots at the bottom, middle and top of the reactor. Recorded temperature diagrams show that with greater masses of feedstock, local overheating occurs in the middle part of the reactor, which leads to overcracking of vapor products, and from there to an increased formation of non-condensable gases, i.e. reduced yield of pyrolytic oil.
Keywords
polypropylene; plastic waste; pyrolysis; fixed bed reactor; response surface methodology
Subject
Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemical Engineering
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