Turning Plastics (back) into Fuel
Global Resources Corporation (GRC) has developed a process which uses tuned microwaves to gasify the hydrocarbons present in plastics and rubber (or anything else), returning the product to it's base components. They call it "High-Frequency Attenuating Wave Kinetics" and their microwave unit - the HAWK-10 - can, for example, reduce 9.1 kilograms of ground-up tire to:
4.54 litres of diesel oil, 1.42 cubic metres of combustible gas 1 kg of steel and 3.40 kg of carbon black. There is a video of the process here. My question is how much energy does this require and what is the net loss-gain? Even if it's lossy it has many other benefits (reclamation of otherwise "lost" resources, reduced waste, etc.) |
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From reading their website they have all sorts of secret agreements with oil companies, whose goals are always more oil and higher prices, so I don't know if they'll actually apply their technology to turning tires into fuel. Tom. |
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