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WASTE MANAGEMENT & RESEARCH
Volume 38, Issue 2, Pages 202-212Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X19865339
Keywords
Plastic waste; thermo-catalytic decomposition; kinetics models; kinetics parameters; comparative analysis
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- Higher Education Commission of Pakistan [20-1491]
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Due to a huge increase in polymer production, a tremendous increase in municipal solid waste is observed. Every year the existing landfills for disposal of waste polymers decrease and the effective recycling techniques for waste polymers are getting more and more important. In this work pyrolysis of waste polystyrene was performed in the presence of a laboratory synthesized copper oxide. The samples were pyrolyzed at different heating rates that is, 5 degrees Cmin(-1), 10 degrees Cmin(-1), 15 degrees Cmin(-1) and 20 degrees Cmin(-1) in a thermogravimetric analyzer in inert atmosphere using nitrogen. Thermogravimetric data were interpreted using various model fitting (Coats-Redfern) and model free methods (Ozawa-Flynn-Wall, Kissinger-Akahira-Sunose and Friedman). Thermodynamic parameters for the reaction were also determined. The activation energy calculated applying Coats-Redfern, Ozawa-Flynn-Wall, Kissinger-Akahira-Sunose and Friedman models were found in the ranges 105-148.48 kJmol(-1), 99.41-140.52 kJmol(-1), 103.67-149.15 kJmol(-1) and 99.93-141.25 kJmol(-1), respectively. The lowest activation energy for polystyrene degradation in the presence of copper oxide indicates the suitability of catalyst for the decomposition reaction to take place at lower temperature. Moreover, the obtained kinetics and thermodynamic parameters would be very helpful in determining the reaction mechanism of the solid waste in a real system.
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