Catalytic Upcycling of Waste Plastics I: Pyrolysis and Gasification
AIChE Annual Meeting
2023
2023 AIChE Annual Meeting
Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division
Oral
Florida Ballroom B
Hyatt Regency Orlando
Monday, November 6, 2023 - 8:00am to 10:30am
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Plastic production is currently higher than 400 million metric tons per year and is predicted to reach 700 million metric tons by 2030. 25% of plastic waste is incinerated and 20% is recycled, mostly by mechanical processes, resulting in downcycled or reduced value polymers. The rest is discarded into landfills and oceans, posing an environmental hazard. A promising approach to overcome the waste plastic problem and reach a “circular economy of plastics” is polymer upcycling, consisting in chemically converting waste plastics back to monomers, into fuels and/or value-added molecules. The current session welcomes any work targeting conversion of waste plastics.
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