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Polypropylene and rendering fat degrading to value-added chemicals by direct liquefaction and fast-pyrolysis

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In this work, the direct liquefaction of polypropylene and rendering fat mixtures was performed by using light magnesium oxide (MgO) as catalyst. Polypropylene and rendering fat mixtures were tested in ratio of 10:0, 8:2, 6:4, 4:6, 2:8, and 0:10 (w/w) with 2 g of MgO and 50 g of tetralin as solvent and rendering fat:tetralin ratios of 10:50, 20:40, 30:30, 40:20, 50:10, and 60:10 w/w for the low temperature pyrolysis. Direct liquefaction was tested at 420 °C for 1 h, under nitrogen (1 MPa) in an autoclave. Furthermore, fast pyrolysis was performed to degrade these raw materials to light molecules such as ethylene and propylene. The raw materials and products were analyzed by a combination of several techniques: inductively coupled plasma thermal analyses, infrared spectroscopy, refractive index, elemental analyses (C, H, N, S%), and gas chromatography provided by a flame ionization detector (GC-FID), further analyzed by simulated distillation and refinery gas analysis (RGA).

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Abbreviations

RF:

Rendering fat

PP:

Polypropylene

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Acknowledgements

This publication is a result of the project CACTU, Reg. No. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/17_049/0008397, which has been co-financed by the European Union from the European Regional Development Fund through the Operational Programme Research, Development and Education. The result was achieved using the infrastructure of the project Efficient Use of Energy Resources Using Catalytic Processes (LM2018119) which has been financially supported by MEYS within the targeted support of large infrastructures.

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1) Funder: Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy. Award number: CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/17_049/0008397. 2) Funder: Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy (Grant number: LM2018119.

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  1. ORLEN UniCRE a.s., Revoluční 1521/84, 400 01, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic

    José Miguel Hidalgo Herrador, Martin Babor, Ritik Tomar, Zdeněk Tišler, Jan Hubáček, Héctor de Paz Carmona, Jakub Frątczak & Aleš Vráblík

  2. Department of Power Engineering, University of Chemistry and Technology, Technická 5, 166 28, Prague 6, Czech Republic

    Ritik Tomar

  3. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 00, Prague, Czech Republic

    Jakub Frątczak

  4. Contipro a.s., Dolní Dobrouč 401, 561 02, Dolní Dobrouč, Czech Republic

    Gloria Huerta Ángeles

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Hidalgo Herrador, J.M., Babor, M., Tomar, R. et al. Polypropylene and rendering fat degrading to value-added chemicals by direct liquefaction and fast-pyrolysis. Biomass Conv. Bioref. 14, 1027–1036 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-022-02405-4

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