Alternative Diesel from Waste Plastics

Stella Bezergianni, Athanasios Dimitriadis, Gian-Claudio Faussone and Dimitrios Karonis
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Stella Bezergianni: Chemical Process & Energy Resources Institute, Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, 57001 Thermi-Thessaloniki, Greece
Athanasios Dimitriadis: Chemical Process & Energy Resources Institute, Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, 57001 Thermi-Thessaloniki, Greece
Gian-Claudio Faussone: INSER SpA, 10121 Turin, Italy
Dimitrios Karonis: School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 15780 Athens, Greece

Energies, 2017, vol. 10, issue 11, 1-12

Abstract: The long term ambition of energy security and solidarity, coupled with the environmental concerns of problematic waste accumulation, is addressed via the proposed waste-to-fuel technology. Plastic waste is converted into automotive diesel fuel via a two-step thermochemical process based on pyrolysis and hydrotreatment. Plastic waste was pyrolyzed in a South East Asia plant rendering pyrolysis oil, which mostly consisted of middle-distillate (naphtha and diesel) hydrocarbons. The diesel fraction (170–370 °C) was fractionated, and its further upgrade was assessed in a hydroprocessing pilot plant at the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) in Greece. The final fuel was evaluated with respect to the diesel fuel quality specifications EN 590, which characterized it as a promising alternative diesel pool component with excellent ignition quality characteristics and low back end volatility.

Keywords: waste plastics; pyrolysis; hydrotreating; fuels; renewable diesel; waste-to-fuel (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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