This Mechanical Engineer From Hyderabad Is Turning Waste Plastic Into Fuel In Just Three Steps

Satish Kumar, a mechanical engineer from Hyderabad claims that he has been turning waste plastic into fuel that can be incorporated into our daily lives.

Kumar has been using end-life plastic to recycle and turn them into synthetic fuels. ?“About 500 kg of non-recyclable plastic can produce 400 litres of fuel,” said Mr Kumar.?

Kumar has also revealed his process of producing this fuel, something that seems like a saviour in times of pollution-induced deaths. He says that he is working on a three-step reverse engineering system where the plastics can be indirectly heated in vacuum conditions,?depolymerised, gasified and condensed.

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With this, Kumar is able to produce diesel, aviation fuel and petrol. The said process called as plastic pyrolysis, which is producing?combustible fluids that resemble petrol but are not exactly the same.

?“It’s a simple process which requires no water and doesn’t release waste water. Neither does it pollute the air as the process happens in a vacuum,” Mr Kumar added.

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Kumar kick-started this project back in 2016 and has cleaned 50 tonnes of plastics of from the planet, since. He collected plastics from NGOs or from organizations that scraped plastic waste.?

“When organizations discard dead plastic, that’s where this technology steps in,” Mr Kumar said.?

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On an average, Hyderabad dumps over?2,500 tonnes of plastic in form of bottles and other things, therefore making a huge base for execution. The fuel that Kumar is producing from his work is being sold at?50-40 rupees per litre to local industries, including a bakery that uses it for broiler purpose.