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Not new news, but first time I have seen this process.

http://www.sciencealert.com/holy-crap-watch-this-guy-turn-plastic-back-into-oil

 

Japanese man takes plastic containers, bottles and bags, shoves them all in a machine and then, hey presto, out comes diesel, kerosene and gasoline. It looks so easy it makes you wonder why we're not doing this all the time.

Well, there's a reason for that - the process is known as anhydrous pyrolysis, and despite how simple it looks, it's unfortunately not considered very effective because it uses up a lot more energy than it creates.

Surely this can be adapted to work with another process that has waste heat energy, maybe somewhere like a foundry that as a lot of waste heat energy that could perhaps be adapted to use this tech?

 

maybe even incorporated into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste-to-energy_plant

 

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Exciting breakthrough as Indian scientists 'turn plastic into petrol and diesel'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2727285/Waste-not-want-not-New-technology-turn-plastic-petrol-diesel.html#ixzz3jAV3C4cK

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2727285/Waste-not-want-not-New-technology-turn-plastic-petrol-diesel.html

 

I believe anything like this is going to be good for the environment, We all hear of the amount of plastics in the ocean that enters the food chain.

Most of these plastics are from accidents in transport from country to country.

http://www.theguardian.com/vital-signs/2015/feb/12/science-plastic-oceans-study-fish-pollution-worse

 

 

next decade our ocean will hold about one kilogram of plastic for every three kilograms of fish
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Not new news, but first time I have seen this process.

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Surely this can be adapted to work with another process that has waste heat energy, maybe somewhere like a foundry that as a lot of waste heat energy that could perhaps be adapted to use this tech?

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Perhaps a solar oven. A few years ago I built a small model of a parabolic trough oven to experiment with making bio-char. At ~4ft across the highest temp I reached in the receiver was just over 200ºF and a good deal short of the ~500ºF I needed. Not sure how it would have to scale up to reach the temps the guy's process needs.

My model:

20072052134_9b0a2d0eb6_o.jpg

Posted

Perhaps a solar oven. A few years ago I built a small model of a parabolic trough oven to experiment with making bio-char. At ~4ft across the highest temp I reached in the receiver was just over 200ºF and a good deal short of the ~500ºF I needed. Not sure how it would have to scale up to reach the temps the guy's process needs.

My model:

20072052134_9b0a2d0eb6_o.jpg

It seems a good idea if it can be scaled up to reach 350celsius, I had a look and some parabolic systems can reach into the thousands of degrees celsius.

I looked for solar furnaces but they seem to be mainly for heating homes,

 

I did find these solar ovens that look look they could possibly be adapted

http://gosunstove.com/collections/solar-ovens/products/gosun-mini

 

 

Dry Weight: 1.5 lbs (0.7kg)

Oven Volume: 9.5oz (0.3L) of food

Oven Dimensions: 1.75”(4.5cm) outside diameter, 1.25”(3.2cm) inside diameter, 11.5” (30cm) length

Unit Assembled Size: 12.5”(32cm) long x 6”(15cm) tall x 8”(20cm) wide

Maximum Temperature: 700°F (371°C)

Working Temperature: 200°F (93°C) - 550°F (288°C)

Cooking Time: As fast as 10 minutes!

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This electrical home made arc furnace also looks pretty cool

http://lifehacker.com/build-a-homemade-electrical-arc-furnace-with-lantern-ba-1691381102

 

It would be cool to produce your own fuel from waste plastics+solar energy.

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