화학공학소재연구정보센터
Fuel, Vol.179, 368-375, 2016
Thermal degradation of polyethylene waste and jute fiber in oxidative environment and recovery of oil containing phytol and free fatty acids
The thermal degradation of the mixture of waste HDPE & LDPE defined as WPB, in the ratio of 3:1 by wt% and the mixture of jute, HDPE & LDPE defined as JFWPB in the ratio of 1:3:1 by wt%, was carried out in a self designed, laboratory scale, stainless steel reactor in the oxidative environment. The reactor was heated up to 180 degrees C with a heating rate of 1 degrees C/min, by using the digital temperature controller. The recovered liquid yield from WPB was reported less than 5% which had been improved upto 56% with JFWPB. The comparatively FTIR analysis of both the samples revealed that unsaturated hydrocarbon fragments were transformed in to the oxygenated products which were confirmed by GC/MS analysis and identified as a phytol, free fatty acids and silica derivatives by using NIST library. The saponification value, acid value, ester value, % free fatty acids and % glycerol for Oil(JFWPB) was found close to the coconut oil. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.