Turning plastics/microplastics into valuable resources? Current and potential research for future applications

H Tan, MHD Othman, WT Chong, HY Kek… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Plastics are a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic materials, mainly consisting of
polymers. The use of plastics has increased to over 300 million metric tonnes in recent …

Critical issues for the deployment of plastic waste pyrolysis

E Giglio, A Marino, P Pizarro, JM Escola… - Catalysis Science & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Despite the urgent need to valorize plastic waste, stopping its uncontrolled release into the
environment, and the increased availability of consolidated thermal and catalytic …

Techno-Economic and Environmental Assessment of Municipal Solid Waste Energetic Valorization

EB Machin, DT Pedroso, DG Acosta… - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
In 2019, Chile generated 20 million tons of waste, 79% of which was not properly disposed
of, thereby providing an attractive opportunity for energy generation in advanced …

[HTML][HTML] Gasification of olive tree pruning in a rotary kiln reactor integrated with radio frequency plasma torch

E Catizzone, C Freda, A Villone, A Romanelli… - Fuel, 2025 - Elsevier
Olive tree pruning pellets are gasified by air in a bench-scale rotary kiln gasifier integrated
with a radio frequency plasm torch. For the first time the technical suitability of the proposed …

Effects of metal powders on the release of volatiles from electromagnetic pyrolysis of reconstituted tobacco

Y Chen, Y Xiong, Z Wang, B Liu, Y Xu… - … on Advances in …, 2024 - atlantis-press.com
To investigate the effects of metal powders on the release of volatiles from electromagnetic
pyrolysis of reconstituted tobacco, experiments involving varying types, proportions, and …