Abstract: The study focused on the design and fabrication of a waste plastic oil converter as an effort in finding environment-friendly means of waste recycling. It is an alternative solution to increasing problem of waste disposal by converting waste plastics into a resource. Pyrolysis process was the basis in the design and fabrication of the equipment. It is a prototype/laboratory scale model that will serve as baseline in developing technology for energy recovery from waste plastics. The main components were the reactor assembly, condensing chamber, vapor line assembly, smoke cleansing unit and the waste water collecting unit. The reactor tank is made of stainless steel with holding capacity of 200g/batch of waste plastic. The equipment was tested for five trials using 200g of Type 6 plastics per trial. The temperature was controlled at 3800C and operating hour of 2 hours. Test result showed that the equipment is functional with conversion efficiency (wt %) of 78.1%, waste reduction efficiency (wt %) of 94.3% and oil recovery of 883 ml oil/kg of Type 6 waste plastic.
Keywords: Waste plastic oil converter, Type 6 (Polystyrene) plastic, Conversion efficiency, Waste reduction efficiency, oil recovery.
Title: Design and Fabrication of Waste Plastic Oil Converter
Author: Elmo C. Rapsing, Jr.
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)
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