The Providence Journal

This process uses heat to turn plastic into flammable fuel. Legislators want to ban it in RI.

PROVIDENCE – Three years ago, after state regulators rejected a proposal in West Warwick to build a medical waste-to-energy plant, Gov. Dan McKee went a step further and signed a statewide ban on ...
Phys.org

New device converts plastic waste into fuel using catalyst-free pyrolysis

The results are published in Nature Chemical Engineering. Specifically, the researchers are using a method known as pyrolysis, a process of using heat in the absence of oxygen to molecularly break ...
Hackaday

Methane Pyrolysis: Producing Green Hydrogen Without Carbon Emissions

Generally, when we talk about the production of hydrogen, the discussion is about either electrolysis of water into oxygen and hydrogen, or steam methane reforming (SMR). Although electrolysis is ...
The Conversation

Plastic pyrolysis − chemists explain a technique attempting to tackle plastic waste by bringing the heat

Kevin A. Schug receives funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes for Health, ExxonMobil, and Weaver Consultants Group. He is affiliated with VUV Analytics, Inc. and ...