PMID- 35351929
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20220402
IS  - 2045-2322 (Electronic)
IS  - 2045-2322 (Linking)
VI  - 12
IP  - 1
DP  - 2022 Mar 29
TI  - Energy recovery of waste plastics into diesel fuel with ethanol and ethoxy ethyl 
      acetate additives on circular economy strategy.
PG  - 5330
LID - 10.1038/s41598-022-09148-2 [doi]
LID - 5330
AB  - The widespread use of plastic goods creates huge disposal issues and 
      environmental concerns. Increasing emphasis has been paid to the notion of a 
      circular economy, which might have a significant impact on the demand for plastic 
      raw materials. Post-consumer plastics recycling is a major focus of the nation's 
      circular economy. This study focuses on energy recovery from waste plastics as an 
      alternative fuel source to meet the circular economy demand. Waste plastic fuel 
      produced through pyrolysis has been claimed to be utilized as a substituted fuel. 
      This work focuses to determine the performance and emission standards of Waste 
      Plastic Fuel (WPF) generated from the pyrolysis of High-Density Polyethylene 
      (HDPE) in a single-cylinder Direct Injection Diesel Engine (DIDE). Three 
      different ratios of WPF were combined with 10% ethanol and 10% ethoxy ethyl 
      acetate as an oxygenated additive to create quaternary fuel blends. The ethanol 
      has a low viscosity, a high oxygen content, a high hydrogen-to-carbon ratio as 
      favourable properties, the quaternary fuel results the improved brake thermal 
      efficiency, fuel consumption and reduced emissions. The blend WEE20 exhibits 4.7% 
      higher brake thermal efficiency, and 7.8% reduced fuel consumption compared to 
      the diesel. The quaternary fuel blends demonstrated decreased carbon monoxide of 
      3.7 to 13.4% and reduced hydrocarbons of 2 to 16% under different load 
      conditions.
CI  - (c) 2022. The Author(s).
FAU - Padmanabhan, Sambandam
AU  - Padmanabhan S
AD  - School of Mechanical and Construction, Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D 
      Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600 062, India.
FAU - Giridharan, K
AU  - Giridharan K
AD  - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Easwari Engineering College, Chennai, Tamil 
      Nadu, 600 089, India.
FAU - Stalin, Balasubramaniam
AU  - Stalin B
AD  - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Anna University, Regional Campus Madurai, 
      Madurai, Tamil Nadu, 625 019, India.
FAU - Kumaran, Subramanian
AU  - Kumaran S
AD  - Centre for Drug Discovery and Development, Sathyabama Institue of Science and 
      Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
FAU - Kavimani, V
AU  - Kavimani V
AD  - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Karpagam Academy of Higher Education, 
      Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, 641 021, India.
FAU - Nagaprasad, N
AU  - Nagaprasad N
AD  - Department of Mechanical Engineering, ULTRA College of Engineering and 
      Technology, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, 625 104, India.
FAU - Tesfaye Jule, Leta
AU  - Tesfaye Jule L
AD  - Centre for Excellence-Indigenous Knowledge, Innovative Technology Transfer and 
      Entrepreneurship, Dambi Dollo University, Dambi Dollo, Ethiopia.
AD  - Department of Physics, College of Natural and Computational Science, Dambi Dollo 
      University, Dambi Dollo, Ethiopia.
FAU - Krishnaraj, Ramaswamy
AU  - Krishnaraj R
AD  - Centre for Excellence-Indigenous Knowledge, Innovative Technology Transfer and 
      Entrepreneurship, Dambi Dollo University, Dambi Dollo, Ethiopia. 
      dr.krishnarajdirectorcei@dadu.edu.et.
AD  - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dambi Dollo University, Dambi Dollo, 
      Ethiopia. dr.krishnarajdirectorcei@dadu.edu.et.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20220329
PL  - England
TA  - Sci Rep
JT  - Scientific reports
JID - 101563288
SB  - IM
PMC - PMC8963890
COIS- The authors declare no competing interests.
EDAT- 2022/03/31 06:00
MHDA- 2022/03/31 06:01
PMCR- 2022/03/29
CRDT- 2022/03/30 05:41
PHST- 2021/12/24 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/03/09 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/03/30 05:41 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/03/31 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/03/31 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2022/03/29 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1038/s41598-022-09148-2 [pii]
AID - 9148 [pii]
AID - 10.1038/s41598-022-09148-2 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Sci Rep. 2022 Mar 29;12(1):5330. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-09148-2.