Published on March 06, 2019.-
Valuing waste and transforming it into useful products is today one of the challenges that different teams of researchers around the world have posed, for this reason a new process has emerged, defined by experts from the School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University (Indiana , United States) as a chemical that melts polypropylene into fuel, which happens through a technique called hydrothermal liquefaction, in which polyolefin granules are melted at high temperatures and then dissolved in water. As a by-product, you get gas, oil and solvents, which can be used as fuels.
Este avance está en línea con el concepto de la circular economy, que se presenta como una estrategia de aprovechamiento de recursos, donde prima la reducción, la reutilización y el reciclaje de los elementos y es una pieza fundamental para Chile en este 2019 para optimizar los procesos y la gestión correcta de residuos.
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