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. 2021 Aug 26;803:149911. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149911

Table 4.

Pyrolysis of plastic PP using different type of pyrolysis.

Plastic Type of pyrolysis Focused end products Ref.
PP, PE Slow PDO for liquid fuel (Das and Tiwari, 2018b)
PP Slow Char 10%, oil 76% and gas 14% (Singh et al., 2019)
PP, PE waste Slow Liquid oil of C8-C28 aliphatic carbons (Velghe et al., 2011)
PP waste Slow (catalytic) Solid oxide fuel cell, carbon nanotubes (Cai et al., 2019)
PP Slow Carbon 25%, oil 33% and gas 38%, porous carbon sheets (Ma et al., 2018)
PP, PET, PS waste Slow (co-pyrolysis) Pyrolysis oil (Chhabra et al., 2020)
PP waste Slow Alkene/alkane rich gas products (Ciliz et al., 2004)
PP waste Slow Liquid (oil/wax phase) yields 42% (Maniscalco et al., 2021)
PP waste Slow 80% liquid fuel (Santaweesuk and Janyalertadun, 2017)
PP waste Slow Char 5.7%, gases 5.6% and light and heavy oil fraction of 82.4% (Parku et al., 2020)
PP Slow PDO and hydrocarbon gases (Das and Tiwari, 2018a)
PP Slow Char 2.49%, oil 78.70%, gas 18.81% (Sogancioglu et al., 2020)
PP Fast 50% of the feed mass, 40% oil and 10% char (Kalargaris et al., 2018)
PP waste Fast Char 2.5%, gases 31.8% and light and heavy oil fraction of 60.5% (Parku et al., 2020)
PP Fast Char 2%, oil 7% and gas 91% (Singh et al., 2019)
PP Fast High quality biofuel (Ojha and Vinu, 2015)
PP Fast 51.9% organic carbon basis, 0.2% char residue (Erdoğan et al., 2014)
PP, lignin Fast (non-catalytic co-pyrolysis) High hydrocarbons originating from PP pyrolyzates (Ryu et al., 2020)
PP from facemask Catalytic Formations of syngas, C1-2 hydrocarbons (Jung et al., 2021)
PP, lignin Catalytic (fast co-pyrolysis) Larger amounts of BTEXs, OMAHs, small molecular hydrocarbons (C3 ~ C7) (Ryu et al., 2020)
PP, seaweed Catalytic Large pore size, strong Brönsted acid sites bio-oil (Kim et al., 2017)
PP Plasma Low emission rate, waste residue is inert and sterile (Datta et al., 2018)
PP waste Plasma Synthesis gas and fuels (Munir et al., 2019)