Preliminary evaluation of fuel oil produced from pyrolysis of waste water sachets

Abstract

Potentials of waste water sachets for the production of fuel oil were evaluated. In this work, waste polyethylene (pure water sachets) was pyrolysed at different temperatures: 130-190 o C, 200-300 o C, and 300-450 o C using a batch reactor. Below 200 o C, 78% of the waste was converted to wax, 18% to fuel oil and 3% to non-condensable gases. The wax content decreases as temperature increases .The highest quantity of fuel oil was produced between 300 o C-450 o C. The pyrolysis was found to increase with temperature.