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<blockquote data-quote="Green Prometheus" data-source="post: 3349998" data-attributes="member: 62756"><p>Process. Mixed plastics (including PVC) will be inserted in a corrosion resistant airtight steel reactor. Two step induction heating process will star. First stage will be removal of toxins from any PVC plastics. Second stage at ~300 Celcius will melt and evaporate the plastics, which will then condense in separate containers (diesel ~70%, gasoline ~20% and kerosene ~10%). The system will only need the operator to push start and it will turn itself off after all plastic is converted. This may take anywhere from half to several hours to finish. </p><p></p><p>Plastics. All thermoplastic plastics will be usable. Each will have different properties (with a slightly different distribution of byproducts), but all can be reduced to oils. The diesel will have sulfur levels lower than petrol station equivalent. It will be able to run a diesel engine. Here's a link to one of many published papers on this type of fuel quality <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4940549/" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4940549/</a></p><p></p><p>Costs: This one is tricky as we want to make it cheap enough for a wide market of people to afford. The price will be directly connected to the size of the machine and we are currently trying to figure out what size would be best for average farmers. Which is one of the reasons why I am on this forum. The very rough price is currently at £500. Don't quote me on this just yet. We still need to gain a better understanding which functions would be best in this environment and which we can take out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Green Prometheus, post: 3349998, member: 62756"] Process. Mixed plastics (including PVC) will be inserted in a corrosion resistant airtight steel reactor. Two step induction heating process will star. First stage will be removal of toxins from any PVC plastics. Second stage at ~300 Celcius will melt and evaporate the plastics, which will then condense in separate containers (diesel ~70%, gasoline ~20% and kerosene ~10%). The system will only need the operator to push start and it will turn itself off after all plastic is converted. This may take anywhere from half to several hours to finish. Plastics. All thermoplastic plastics will be usable. Each will have different properties (with a slightly different distribution of byproducts), but all can be reduced to oils. The diesel will have sulfur levels lower than petrol station equivalent. It will be able to run a diesel engine. Here's a link to one of many published papers on this type of fuel quality [URL]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4940549/[/URL] Costs: This one is tricky as we want to make it cheap enough for a wide market of people to afford. The price will be directly connected to the size of the machine and we are currently trying to figure out what size would be best for average farmers. Which is one of the reasons why I am on this forum. The very rough price is currently at £500. Don't quote me on this just yet. We still need to gain a better understanding which functions would be best in this environment and which we can take out. [/QUOTE]
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