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Pyrolysis kinetic modelling of abundant plastic waste (PET) and in-situ emissions monitoring
Ahmed I. Osman
Queen's University Belfast Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
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Background: Recycling the ever-increasing plastic waste has become an urgent global concern. One of the most convenient methods for plastic recycling is pyrolysis, owing to its environmentally friendly nature and its intrinsic properties. Understanding the pyrolysis process and the degradation mechanism is crucial for scale-up and reactor design. Therefore, we studied kinetic modelling of the pyrolysis process for one of the most common plastics, polyethylene terephthalate (PET). The focus was to better understand and predict PET pyrolysis when transitioning to a low carbon economy and adhering to environmental and governmental legislation. This work aims at presenting for the first time, the kinetic triplet (activation energy, pre-exponential constant and reaction rate) for the PET pyrolysis using the differential iso-conversional method. This is coupled with the in-situ online tracking of the gaseous emissions using mass spectrometry.
Results: The differential iso-conversional method showed activation energy (Ea) values of 165-195 kJ.mol-1, R2 = 0.99659. While the ASTM-E698 showed 165.6 kJ.mol-1 and integral methods such as Flynn-Wall and Ozawa (FWO) (166-180 kJ.mol-1). The in-situ Mass Spectrometry results showed the pyrolysis gaseous emissions which are C1-hydrocarbon and H-O-C=O along with C2 hydrocarbons, C5- C6 hydrocarbons, acetaldehyde, the fragment of O-CH=CH2, hydrogen and water.
Conclusions: From the obtained results herein, thermal predictions (isothermal, non-isothermal and step-based heating) were determined based on the kinetic parameters and can be used at numerous scales with a high level of accuracy compared with the literature.
Keywords
Kinetic modelling, Plastic waste, Pyrolysis, Polyethylene terephthalate, Gaseous emissions, Plastic recycling
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Additional file (Supplementary Information): Figure S1: The PET sample used herein. Figure S2: The % integrated mass derived from TGA results of PET pyrolysis at heating rates of 0.5, 1, 2, 4 and 8 °C.min-1. The integration of the DTG curve is shown in yellow and simulation results are shown by black lines. Figure S3: The DSC-TGA thermogram of the PET pyrolysis at heating rate of 0.5 °C.min-1 (a) and °C.min-1 (b) under nitrogen atmosphere. Figure S4: Benzene evolution during the PET pyrolysis.
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Pyrolysis kinetic modelling of abundant plastic waste (PET) and in-situ emissions monitoring
Ahmed I. Osman
Queen's University Belfast Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
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Community comments: 1
Editorial decision: Accept
On 17 Aug, 2020
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On 12 Aug, 2020
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On 11 Aug, 2020
Editor invited
On 11 Aug, 2020
Community comments: 1
Editorial decision: Major Revision
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Background: Recycling the ever-increasing plastic waste has become an urgent global concern. One of the most convenient methods for plastic recycling is pyrolysis, owing to its environmentally friendly nature and its intrinsic properties. Understanding the pyrolysis process and the degradation mechanism is crucial for scale-up and reactor design. Therefore, we studied kinetic modelling of the pyrolysis process for one of the most common plastics, polyethylene terephthalate (PET). The focus was to better understand and predict PET pyrolysis when transitioning to a low carbon economy and adhering to environmental and governmental legislation. This work aims at presenting for the first time, the kinetic triplet (activation energy, pre-exponential constant and reaction rate) for the PET pyrolysis using the differential iso-conversional method. This is coupled with the in-situ online tracking of the gaseous emissions using mass spectrometry.
Results: The differential iso-conversional method showed activation energy (Ea) values of 165-195 kJ.mol-1, R2 = 0.99659. While the ASTM-E698 showed 165.6 kJ.mol-1 and integral methods such as Flynn-Wall and Ozawa (FWO) (166-180 kJ.mol-1). The in-situ Mass Spectrometry results showed the pyrolysis gaseous emissions which are C1-hydrocarbon and H-O-C=O along with C2 hydrocarbons, C5- C6 hydrocarbons, acetaldehyde, the fragment of O-CH=CH2, hydrogen and water.
Conclusions: From the obtained results herein, thermal predictions (isothermal, non-isothermal and step-based heating) were determined based on the kinetic parameters and can be used at numerous scales with a high level of accuracy compared with the literature.
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Ahmed I. Osman
commented on 02 September, 2020
The paper has been accepted, please update it here, the link for the final published paper is below: https://enveurope.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s12302-020-00390-x