Energy savings from plastics recovery technologies
Conference
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OSTI ID:535332
- Polymer Processing Institute, Hoboken, NJ (United States)
- Atro Associates, Mountainside, NJ (United States)
For plastics containing waste streams disposal/recycling alternatives to landfilling or combustion in a waste-to-energy unit include: (a) reuse of parts/objects, (b) reclamation/melt reprocessing of generic single plastics or commingled streams, (c) reclamation followed by chemical modification of single plastics or compatibilization of commingled plastics, (d) pyrolysis to fuels, and (e) pyrolysis/solvolysis to monomers. Life cycle analysis principles can be applied to these alternatives to establish an approximate hierarchy of energy recovery potential. In this presentation, a methodology to rank the various recovery options in terms of potential energy savings by defining their respective sub-systems and estimating energy requirements is discussed. By establishing the proper boundary conditions that place the alternatives considered on a comparable basis, it is shown that the overall energy requirements for most alternatives are well below those of landfilling (highest energy consumption), and for some alternatives closer to those of reuse (lowest energy consumption).
- OSTI ID:
- 535332
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-951022--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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