A retired BASF research chemist has developed a portable reactor that makes fuel from plastics. RameshSwaminathan Ramesh said his small machine uses a catalysed pyrolysis reaction, using a metallocene catalyst, to produce fuel from discarded polyethylenes, polypropolyenes and polystyrenes with no need for further refining. "Ten pounds [of plastic] will give you a gallon of fuel," Swaminathan Ramesh said.
A retired BASF research chemist has developed a portable reactor that makes fuel from plastics. Swaminathan Ramesh said his small machine uses a catalysed pyrolysis reaction, using a metallocene catalyst, to produce fuel from discarded polyethylenes, polypropolyenes and polystyrenes with no need for further refining. "Ten pounds [of plastic] will give you a gallon of fuel," Ramesh said.