Liquified Plasto Gas

Waste plastic to fuel conversion

Nandha.S 4/22/2011

INTRODUCTION
As the industrial sectors and the usage of fuels are increasing day by day, and as there are unstable conditions in the fuel supply, we should seek for the alternate fuel to satisfy our fuel needs. The plastics became one of the unavoidable things to the human beings for their day to day life due to its easy and regular availability. Life without plastic is impossible is the current situation, so there is increasing and emerging production of plastic through out the country. But there are problems which are generated by these plastics when they met out their utility, i.e., they are simply thrown out to the streets especially thin plastic bags, which causes a strange effects in the environment. This is because due to that these plastics do not have good market value as well as due to their thin nature, they are not preferred by the rag pickers to collect it. So these plastic wastes remain uncollected and spread everywhere, littered in open drains or in the garbage dumps. Even though we are having enough techniques to recycle the plastics, the thin plastic wastes are not taken in interest. Some of the recycling techniques are reprocessing, road making, where these techniques leads plastics wastes to re utilize them and they are not meant to be termination of the plastic wastes. To avoid these problems, we have the technology for the utilization of waste plastics and thats why we can convert them in to fuel which can be the solution for the current fuel needs and hence we can terminate the waste plastics.

THEME OF THE PROJECT

Effective utilization of waste plastic Eliminates Pollution created by plastic wastes Alternate source of fuel

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ABOUT THE PROCESS

The Olefin grade (poly ethylene, poly propylene) waste plastics are initially grinded well in the granulator. The granulated plastic wastes are pumped to the reactor (pyrolysis tank) which is maintained at 600 deg.cel. The gas evolved from the plastics is condensed @ 30 deg.cel. and they are passed to the separator , where the uncondensed gas are recycled to the condensing chamber. The condensed gas is termed as Liquified plasto gas, and the conversion rate is 80% i.e., we can manufacture one liter from 1.25kgs of plastic wastes. The separated oil is stored in a storage tank, to which the fractional distillation has to be done, since the oil is a mixture of hydrocarbon liquid.

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PRODUCT

CONVERSON
On an average in a landfill, 5 tonnes of plastic wastes are found. It is possible to convert 80% of plastic waste into fuel, through our technology. Therefore 4000 liters can be manufactured from 5 tonnes of waste plastic.

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MACHINE DESIGN Hopper design

5 metric tons of plastic wastes have to be process per day. So the hopper has to be at the capacity of storing 5 tons.

160 cms dia. (or) 5.25 feet

240 cms dia. (or) 7.87 feet

Storage tank
At least 4 days produced oils has to be stored in the tank, minimum 3800 liters of oils can be processed per 5 tons of materials at the conversion rate of 77%, that to from working hours of 6 hrs to process the 5 tons. So minimum, 15400 liters of oil has to be stored. 150 cms dia. (or) 4.9 feet

250 cms dia. (or) 8.2 feet

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Reactor Design
Continuous mode reactor for processing 5 tons of material per day (6 hrs/day), 625kgs can be process for every set of 40 mins.

60 cms dia. (or) 2 feets

100 cms dia. (or) 3.3 feet 60 cms dia. (or) 2 feet

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COST ESTIMATION CAPITAL COST 278750 USD

Building Site setup Reactor Storage tank Fractional distillation Miscellaneous equipments EPC 25000 USD 35000 USD 28000 USD 35000 USD 70000 USD 30000 USD 55750 USD

OPERATING COST 27700 USD /month

Power Labour Equipment Replacement Management Procurement 4000 USD /month 1200 USD /month 3000 USD /month 18000 USD /month 1500 USD /month

3.75 LITRES OF LIQUIFIED PLASTO GAS (FRACTIONAL DISTILLATED)

CAN BE PRODUCED FROM

ONE USD.

Sale price of Crude oil in India Project proposal S.Nandhagopal

118.46 USD PER BARREL (42 GALLONS)

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