Simulation of thermochemical recycling of waste plastic to produce dimethyl ether

Mohammaed Awwad; Umer Zahid

doi:10.1016/B978-0-443-15274-0.50397-8

Simulation of thermochemical recycling of waste plastic to produce dimethyl ether

Mohammaed Awwad, Umer Zahid

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Abstract

In this study, the thermochemical plastic recycling process namely gasification has been investigated to process 10,000 kg/h of plastic waste. This study rigorously modeled and simulated the thermochemical processes that can recycle the plastic wastes efficiently to useful chemical such as di-methyl ether (DME). Currently, the cost of recycled plastic is not competitive compared to the fossil-based virgin plastics, which leads to the lack of industrial willingness for recycling. This study explored the technical feasibility to understand the processing of recycled plastics to useful chemical conversion. The results show that the gasification can provide a competitive solution with flexibility in terms of waste feed composition to produce DME at a large scale.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Computer Aided Chemical Engineering
Publisher	Elsevier B.V.
Pages	2495-2500
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-15274-0.50397-8
State	Published - Jan 2023

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Name	Computer Aided Chemical Engineering
Volume	52
ISSN (Print)	1570-7946

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Keywords

Waste recycling
clean fuel
process design
techno-economics

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General Chemical Engineering
Computer Science Applications

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