Chemical recycling of plastic waste: model-guided design and optimization of sorting and pyrolysis processes Ghent University
Plastic pollution has become one of the most pressing environmental issues. Chemical recycling of plastic waste into pyrolysis oils, followed by steam cracking into platform molecules, overcomes the limitations of current recycling processes and is expected to become one of the main routes to boost circularity. However, plastic waste contains large amounts of contaminants, a.o. halogens, heteroatoms (N, S, O, P), and metals. Steam crackers ...