• Dr. Y. P. Chauhan
• Dr. S. L. Bhagat

Due to versatile properties like low weight and high strength with ease of processing, plastic becomes an important material for scientists and industries for research and development and product manufacturing respectively. Use of plastics in in day to day life is huge and due to use and through culture of society, it becomes big problem for plastic waste management. In this study, we have performed some experiments for conversion of plastic waste into liquid fuel. We have examined the different plastic waste like PET as well as LDPE for our experiments with and without catalyst and found that LDPE shows the good conversion into liquid fuel when fly ash is used as a catalyst. The fuel conversion found up to 55% for LDPE. We used modified readymade pressure cooker of 9 litre capacity as a reactor for this experimentation. The copper coiled condenser is fabricated for condensing the generated gases. We found 220 ml of fuel from 400 grams of waste LDPE at reaction temperature of 2900C. The source of waste LDPE is the milk pouches treated as the waste after utilisation of the milk. The fuel analysis shows that the specific gravity 0.7616, density 0.71 gram/ml, net calorific value 9850 kcal/kg, flash point 150C, pour point 90C, cloud point 120C, aniline point 70C, octane number 76 and moisture content 0.08%.

Thermal degradation, catalyst, plastic waste, LDPE, liquid fuel

"Thermal catalytic degradation of waste plastics to produce liquid fuel", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 2, page no.e695-e702, February-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2302482.pdf

"Thermal catalytic degradation of waste plastics to produce liquid fuel", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 2, page no. ppe695-e702, February-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2302482.pdf