The following study is from Study Finds:
Plastic bags and gasoline are two products that environmental advocates often lobby the public to stop using for the good of the planet. Now, scientists say there’s a way to turn plastic bags into a more sustainable source of fuel.
Researchers from California State Polytechnic University have created a process that chemically breaks down plastic waste into a diesel-like substance.
Estimates show that humans produce around 300 million tons of plastic waste each year. Making matters worse, plastic’s life cycle makes it difficult to remove these products from the planet once they enter landfills. Ultimately, a large amount of these plastics break down into microplastics that enter the ocean and other ecosystems.
From there, fish and other animals consume these particles which impact their own health and can even disrupt human health when people eat seafood and other products.
The ‘Catalyst’ For Eco-Friendly Gas?
Study authors used catalytic pyrolysis to turn plastic bags into this new fuel source. Scientists define pyrolysis as the “thermochemical decomposition of carbon-based matter in the absence of oxygen.”
The team took the recycled plastic and converted into a vapor using extreme heat. Combining that with a chemical catalyst then turned it into a fuel-like substance.
The innovative part of the experiment is the catalyst. The catalyst is critical to this particular pyrolysis process, because it only requires one step to get to the desired fuel product at relatively mild temperatures.
Study author Mingheng Li explains in a media release.
Scientists created their catalyst by dipping a zeolite substrate (a mineral) in a solution of nickel and tungsten. The team then dried the substance in an oven at over 900 degrees Fahrenheit. They used this catalyst in combination with a single-stage pyrolytic reactor that runs at nearly 700 degrees to break down the everyday plastic grocery bags.
Researchers believe this fuel-making process would work with other waste products like manure, used engine oil, and other waste products.
This pyrolysis process serves as a definitive step in reducing reliance on fossil-based fuels.
The team says the final product resembles regular diesel fuel. Moving forward, scientists will try to optimize their plastic conversion methods to make diesel fuel from this seemingly never-ending source of pollution.
The study is published in the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
At first glance it sounds interesting, but then when you realize that heating a plastic to very high temperatures to be turned into a fuel, along with other heavy metals, must be emitting all kinds of pollutants. Not to mention if it is then burned like a diseal fuel of sorts, would that not still be emitting toxins?
As I have noted in other reports, all these new green initiatives are scientifically proven to do MORE harm than the thing it was attempting to replace. The big oil companies will NOT be letting go of their wealth. These “green” technologies take tons of “dirty energy” to produce, but these eco-warriors are either willfully ignorant or just flat-out lying.
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And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
Revelation 11:18
You want to clean the environment and stop polluting? Then pump the brakes and go backwards. What a concept – a concept that will NOT be adopted until the Lord Jesus Christ returns and instigates an agrarian lifestyle.
Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
Jeremiah 6:16
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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