Research group finds way to turn plastic waste products into jet fuel

Credit: Washington State University

A research group led by Washington State University scientists has found a way to turn daily plastic waste products into jet fuel. In a new paper published in the journal Applied Energy, WSU’s Hanwu Lei and colleagues melted plastic waste at high temperature with activated carbon, a processed carbon with increased surface area, to produce jet fuel. information:
Yayun Zhang et al, Jet fuel production from waste plastics via catalytic pyrolysis with activated carbons,
Applied Energy (2019).

Source: phys.org