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Chemists from the People’s Republic of China claim that they managed to find a potential solution to our pollution problem planet with polyethylene waste.
In addition, scientists report that as a result of their proposed Recycling plastic produces liquid that can use in diesel internal combustion engines. She is nothing not inferior to traditional diesel fuel, while being polymer by-product.
According to Chinese chemists, if a similar process succeeds run on an industrial scale, the population of our planet does not only get rid of annoying excess plastic, but also get incredibly cheap fuel without having to drill extra wells or plant whole fields with any plants. ABOUT new technology already managed to write in a reputable American science journal “Science Advances”, where also it is mentioned that now the so-called biodegradable plastic is actually turned out to be just a trick from food plastic manufacturers and therefore does not solve the problem of clogging the Earth practically eternal waste.
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Today, polyethylene is the most common type plastics. A thermoplastic ethylene polymer is made films, bags, bottles, boxes, cans, pipes, electrical insulation materials, garden supplies, hot melt adhesives, armor, cases for vehicles, heat insulators and much another. Over a hundred million tons are produced annually on Earth. polyethylene, and this despite the fact that it almost does not decompose in nature, polluting the environment for centuries. World scientists have long been trying to find a way to effectively dispose of this material, however, so far without success. If polymer is burned, it releases into the air extremely toxic substances, and its burial and dumping in the oceans rapidly destroys the biosphere.
Recycle plastic on an industrial scale
The Chinese were developing a new polymer processing technology more than four years. They determined that at a temperature of one hundred fifty degrees centigrade in molten plastic can add an organometallic catalyst (e.g., petroleum ether with iridium), and it will weaken the bonds between the hydrogen atoms and carbon in polyethylene, leading to decomposition of the material. Moreover, on the output is a fairly high-quality diesel fuel, almost not requiring cleaning.
Chemists of China have already decomposed several hundred polymer bottles and packages. However, a complete victory over the used it’s too early to speak with polyethylene, they say. Now the ratio of catalyst to waste is one part to thirty, but for industrial disposal it should be at least one in a hundred thousand. Other than that, rare and expensive iridium should be replaced with more accessible material, otherwise such processing will not be economically feasible. However all these the issues are completely resolved, the main thing is that a principled approach to plastic recycling …
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