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JOURNAL OF MATERIAL CYCLES AND WASTE MANAGEMENT
Volume 11, Issue 2, Pages 144-147Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10163-008-0227-z
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Steam reforming; Waste plastics; Hydrogen; Coking; Catalyst
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The process of producing synthetic gas from waste plastics by steam reforming was investigated. To evaluate this process, the steam reforming of the oils derived from low-density polyethylene and polystyrene were carried out using a laboratory-scale fluidized bed of Ni-Al2O3 catalysts. The performance of gasification in terms of carbon conversion, gas yield, and gas compositions was examined. Although oils derived from plastics contain many kinds of heavy hydrocarbons and aromatics, they were well gasified at temperatures above 1023 K with a steam/carbon ratio of 3.5 and a weight hourly space velocity of 1 h(-1). The hydrogen content of the product gas was very high at approximately 72 vol% for polyethylene-derived oil and 68 vol% for polystyrene-derived oil. These compositions agreed well with the values calculated from chemical equilibrium.
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