Saturday, July 7, 2007

POWER YOUR HOUSE FROM PLASTIC WASTE

  • Asian electronics of India and Singapore's enviro hub holdings have teamed up to build 4 power plants of 8 MW each, which will be fired by liquid hydrocarbons produced from plastic waste.
  • Mrs. Alka Zadgaonkar developed the technology for producing fuel from plastic waste, holds the patent for this invention.
  • Almost a decade ago, 300 gm of plastic waste being processed in her college lab in Nagpur broke down into a dark brown liquid. This liquid was found to be made up of liquid hydrocarbons.
  • After years of refining processes, she tested the fuel in bikes successfully.
  • Plastic, a product of petroleum, gives a fuel better than petrol and diesel, as the impurities are less as compared to the crude oil.
  • THROUGH THIS TECHNOLOGY, WE CAN CONVERT WASTE PLASTIC INTO OIL 9 70 %) , GAS ( 20 %) AND COKE ( 10 %).

http://www.indiacar.com/infobank/Plastic_fuel.asp