Pyrolysis dynamics of two medical plastic wastes: Drivers, behaviors, evolved gases, reaction mechanisms, and pathways
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2021
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Elsevier
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Özet
The public has started to increasingly scrutinize the proper disposal and treatment of rapidly growing medical wastes, in particular, given the COVID-19 pandemic, raised awareness, and the advances in the health sector. This research aimed to characterize pyrolysis drivers, behaviors, products, reaction mechanisms, and pathways via TG-FTIR and Py-GC/MS analyses as a function of the two medical plastic wastes of syringes (SY) and medical bottles (MB), conversion degree, degradation stage, and the four heating rates (5,10, 20, and 40 degrees C/min). SY and MB pyrolysis ranged from 394.4 to 501 and from 417.9 to 517 degrees C, respectively. The average activation energy was 246.5 and 268.51 kJ/mol for the SY and MB devolatilization, respectively. MB appeared to exhibit a better pyrolysis performance with a higher degradation rate and less residues. The most suitable reaction mechanisms belonged to a geometrical contraction model (R-2) for the SY pyrolysis and to a nucleation growth model (A(1.2)) for the MB pyrolysis. The main evolved gases were C-4-C-24 alkenes and dienes for SY and C-6-C-41 alkanes and C-8 -C-41 alkenes for MB. The pyrolysis dynamics and reaction pathways of the medical plastic wastes have important implications for waste stream reduction, pollution control, and reactor optimization.
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Anahtar Kelimeler
Medical Plastic Wastes, Pyrolysis, Product Distribution, TG-FTIR, Py-GC/MS
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Journal Of Hazardous Materials
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Q1
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402
