Researchers have successfully demonstrated a method to convert waste polyolefin plastics.
This conversion involves thermal depolymerization reactions like pyrolysis.
Pyrolysis is a chemical process in which organic materials, such as waste plastics, biomass, or other carbon-rich materials, are heated in the absence of oxygen at high temperatures.
This process leads to the decomposition of these materials into smaller molecules, including gases, liquids, and char.
The process generates olefin mixtures from waste polyolefin plastics.
Olefins can be further transformed into aldehydes.
Aldehydes resulting from the process can be reduced to create valuable oxygenated chemicals.
These chemicals include alcohols and diols.
Another study explores a method to transform polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) plastics.
These plastics are converted into fatty acids.
The fatty acids derived from PE and PP plastics can be further processed.
They can be transformed into highly useful surfactants and detergents.
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