Knowledge-Based Company in Iran Turns Unrecyclable Waste into Gasoline, Diesel Fuel
“9,000 tons of dry and wet waste are transported to the Arad Kouh complex of (Tehran) Municipality’s Waste Management Organization, of which 45% is dry waste and 10% is polymer,” Mansour Makhmalbaf, the head of the board of directors of the knowledge-based company which has been capale of transforming unrecyclable waste into gasoline and diesel fuel , told ANA.
“In this project, recyclable polymer waste is not our target and they are returned to the plastic cycle; we can convert unrecyclable waste into gasoline and diesel fuel which is equivalent in quality to the carbon and gasoline products of Europe and the US,” he added.
Makhmalbaf explained that the polymeric wastes are converted into light hydrocarbon vapors by the catalyst in the reactor and are separated and converted into gasoline and diesel fuel in several stages.
“No similar project has been implemented in Iran or other countries so far,” he noted.
Unrecyclable waste commonly includes the materials that can be easily degraded in nature. For example, fruit shell, vegetable leaves, food leftovers, flowers and leaves, etc. It also includes cigarette end, muck, coal cinder, construction waste and paint which do not have big value after being discarded.
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