Open AccessAnálisis Tecno-Económico de Gasificación de Polietileno, caso en México
Author(s) -
Alfonso Vargas-Santillán,
Alma Leticia Aguilar-González,
Guillermo Capistrano Zuñiga-Neria,
Agustín Jaime CastroMontoya
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
revista de tecnologías en procesos industriales
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2523-6822
DOI - 10.35429/jtip.2019.7.3.1.5
Subject(s) - polyethylene , polystyrene , plastic waste , materials science , plastic packaging , substrate (aquarium) , waste management , low density polyethylene , polyethylene terephthalate , work (physics) , process (computing) , polymer science , pulp and paper industry , chemical engineering , polymer , composite material , engineering , computer science , mechanical engineering , oceanography , operating system , geology
As a way to encourage the use of new technologies for the recycling of plastic, the research will obtain techno-economic data for the possible chemical recycling of plastics, the gasification of polyethylene. It was simulated in ASPEN PLUS parcel to technically and economically analyze the viability of the gasification process, taking into account the restrictions and considerations of said process. The main plastic waste that is disposed of in landfills are polyethylene terephthalate, polystyrene and low and high density polyethylene. Gasification is a thermochemical process in which a carbonaceous substrate (in this case plastic) is transformed into a combustible gas through a series of reactions that occur in the presence of a gasifying agent (usually air) in an oxygen-poor environment. The work demonstrates the viability of this type of processes used in plastics such as high and low density polyethylene.