Abstract:
The production of plastic has increased globally and there are many applications of plastics in various sectors all over the globe. As the plastic waste is non-biodegradable which has caused environmental pollution. Environmental pollution resulting from solid waste plastic has been a major problem around the globe. On the other hand, energy crisis has also been one of the major problems around the globe. Alternate methods for the production of energy were proposed. Some methods for energy production requires vast land space while the other requires either more time or cause serious damage to our mother nature.
Instead of these methods, plastic fuel from waste plastic can be reformed because it has ability to produce energy and useful petrochemical liquid products. By reducing the pollution and to do that pyrolysis is the most effective technique.
The purpose of this work is to investigate catalytic steam reforming of plastic liquid oil (produced from thermal pyrolysis of waste or solid plastics). The catalysts are prepared by Nickel supported on oxides like ceria. After the production of pyrolysis oil from solid plastic the next step is to produce hydrogen gas by steam reforming of pyrolysis oil using catalysts Ni/CeO2 The aim is to observe the effect of catalyst, steam to carbon ratio and WHSV on the syngas production from steam reforming of plastic oil. For the catalyst synthesis, in this proposed research we will prepare catalyst by wet impregnation and solution combustion method. The catalyst will be impregnated using an active metal like Ni study its effect on production and quality of fuel or syngas. The morphology of the catalyst used in this research work will be investigated by different characterization techniques which includes FTIR and Raman. The fuel oil produced is analyzed using GCMS (which will identify different components that are present in liquid oil), and gasses (that are produced during steam reforming process of plastic oil) is analyzed by using syn-gas analyzer.
