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Upcycling of Plastic Waste

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The usage of plastic has increased exponentially over the past few years. This has led to an accumulation of plastic wastes in landfills and continuous depletion of fossil fuel resources. Mechanical recycling has been used to compensate for this problem; however, it is not sufficient as the separation process is costly due to feedstock requirements; hence, most plastic waste still ends up in landfills. Recently, there has been interest in the production of waste plastic oil (WPO) from the pyrolysis of plastics which is high in calorific value. Further research has been done in this area to develop the WPO to replace commercial fuel such as diesel. This chapter focuses on providing background information on the pyrolysis of plastics including the operating parameters and WPO characteristics from single and mixed plastic wastes. In addition, information on the performance analysis of WPO and the current progress on appropriate technology (AT) pyrolysis reactors is also provided.

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This work was partly funded by Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia Translational Research (TR@M) and Universiti Malaysia Sabah Special Grant Scheme (SDK0321-2021).

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    Mohd Aizzan Mistoh, Nancy Julius Siambun, Coswald Stephen Sipaut & Jidon Janaun

  2. Institute for Sustainability Science and Technology, Unversitat Polytèchnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    Andrea Galassi

  3. Faculty of Science and Natural Resources, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, 88400, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

    Taufiq Yap Yun Hin

  4. Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, 88400, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

    Jurry Foo

  5. Faculty of Chemical Engineering, University of Kentucky, 211 Crounse Hall, 4810 Alben Barkley Drive, Paducah, KY, 42002, USA

    Jeffrey Seay

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Mistoh, M.A. et al. (2022). Upcycling of Plastic Waste. In: Yaser, A.Z., Tajarudin, H.A., Embrandiri, A. (eds) Waste Management, Processing and Valorisation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7653-6_2

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