Application of acid treated kaolin clay for conversion of polymeric waste material into pyrolysis diesel fuel
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Ali Waqas; Muhammad Anees ur Rehman; Muhammad Ali Uzair; Shahid Hussain Ansari; Ali Afzal
- Source
- 2014 International Conference on Energy Systems and Policies (ICESP).
- Subject
- inorganic chemicals
chemistry.chemical_classification
Materials science
Batch reactor
Polymer
complex mixtures
law.invention
Cracking
Diesel fuel
Round-bottom flask
chemistry
Distilled water
law
hemic and lymphatic diseases
Calcination
Composite material
Pyrolysis
Nuclear chemistry
- Language
Polymer waste material was subjected to catalytic pyrolysis using acid treated kaolin clay. Waste material was cracked thermally and catalytically in a batch reactor in the temperature range 400-500°C for synthesis of liquid fuel. For this purpose, kaolin clay was first treated with different prepared molar solutions of HCl (1M, 3M and 5 M) under reflux condensation at 100°C and atmospheric pressure in a round bottom flask for 4 hours. The acid treated clay samples were subsequently washed with distilled water and then calcined at 500°C for 4 hours. Cracking activity of untreated kaolin clay was compared with acid treated kaolin clay. It was observed that acid treated kaolin clay performed better than untreated kaolin clay due to high surface area and greater number of acidic sites.