Background
Currently, waste plastic pollution has gradually come to threaten our daily lives, news like plastic around cities and the sea is not outstanding, and China produces about 10 million tons of waste plastics every year, and the waste is not properly treated so that each person intakes about 5g of micro plastic equivalent to one credit card every week. At present, there are four main approaches to waste plastic treatment: landfill method, incineration method, mechanical recovery method and chemical recovery method. Landfill and incineration not only cause a great deal of pollution, but also are extreme wastes of resources; mechanical recycling is a common recycling method at present, but has fatal defects of low quality of recycled plastics, limited recycling times and the like, and finally, the plastics still enter a landfill or incineration utilization process as wastes; chemical recycling is considered to be the most promising technology, which can convert waste plastics into other high-value products without causing atmospheric pollution during production.
The main mode of chemical recovery is high-temperature pyrolysis of waste plastics, which can convert plastic polymers into hydrocarbon compounds with different carbon chain lengths for producing energy products such as gasoline, diesel oil, aviation kerosene and gas, and is the best way (gasoline, diesel oil, aviation kerosene and the like) for efficient and clean recycling of waste plastics which is widely researched at present. The plastic pyrolysis can not only solve the problem of environmental pollution of waste plastics, but also greatly reduce the cost of fuel oil production raw materials, and has good economic and social benefits.
Although the existing technology for preparing fuel oil by pyrolysis can solve the problem of plastic pollution, the output fuel oil is finally combusted, the requirement of original plastic cannot be offset, the closed-loop management of the plastic industry cannot be realized, and the great contribution to the recycling economy of the plastic cannot be made.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a novel plastic chemical recovery circulation way aiming at the defects of the existing plastic pyrolysis recovery route, develop a corresponding high-activity catalyst, really realize the chemical recovery circulation from waste plastic to new plastic and solve the problem of low mechanical recovery quality and unsustainable pain.
The invention is realized by the following technical scheme.
The invention mixes waste plastic fragments and catalyst according to the proportion of 1: 0.5-5, adding 40-80 wt.% of silicon carbide as a microwave absorbent, quickly heating to 500-600 ℃ in a microwave pyrolysis reactor, collecting a liquid product, namely naphtha, from pyrolysis steam through a multistage condenser, wherein non-condensable gas can be used for generating electricity and generating heat/electricity; naphtha can be used as a raw material source of plastic production monomers, and a closed-loop industrial chain of plastics is realized.
The catalyst used in the process is a metal oxide modified clay mineral catalyst, is the core of naphtha production, and can obviously improve the alkane content in oil and simultaneously reduce the aromatic hydrocarbon content.
The metal oxide in the core catalyst for producing naphtha is alumina, ferric oxide, zirconia, titania or chromic oxide, and the carrier is any one of kaolin and montmorillonite. The metal source of the catalyst is hydroxyl metal ions, the preparation method is a hydroxyl metal ion column supporting method, and the proportion of the metal oxide is 1-20% (based on the weight of the catalyst).
The invention has the following advantages.
(1) The chemical recycling technology realizes the conversion from waste plastics to new plastics, accords with the definition of real recycling, can be comparable with the current popular mechanical recycling method, but solves the key problems of low quality, limited recycling times, unsustainability and the like of the plastic recycled by the mechanical recycling method.
(2) Compared with the technology for preparing fuel oil by pyrolyzing waste plastics, the chemical recycling technology provided by the invention can offset the requirement on the original plastics and makes a great contribution to the recycling economy of the plastics.
(3) Based on the modified clay mineral catalyst provided by the invention, the comprehensive yield of naphtha, which is a raw material for producing plastics, is more than 70%, the alkane content is more than 65%, the aromatic hydrocarbon content is less than 5%, the color is pure, the quality is excellent, and the catalyst is seamlessly jointed with the production line of the existing petrochemical industry.
Detailed Description
The invention will be further illustrated by the following examples.
Example 1.
The new way of recycling the waste plastics chemically comprises the following process steps.
(1) Adding aluminum nitrate into a solution of absolute ethyl alcohol, sodium hydroxide and the like to prepare a hydroxy metal pillared agent, then dropwise adding the pillared agent into a 3% clay suspension under the conditions of 80 degrees, pH 4 and metal/clay of 2mmmol/g, reacting for 2 hours, aging for 2 days in a constant-temperature water bath of 60 degrees, carrying out suction filtration, washing and drying for later use.
(2) The plastic chips were mixed with the metal oxide modified clay mineral catalyst prepared above according to a ratio of 1: 0.5, mixing uniformly, mixing with 40 wt% of silicon carbide, and adding into a microwave reactor together.
(3) After nitrogen is introduced to remove air in the reaction system, microwave equipment is started, the power is set to be 1kW, and reactants are heated to 500 ℃.
(4) Collecting the condensable part of the pyrolysis steam generated in the step (3) by a condensing device to obtain high-quality naphtha, wherein the comprehensive yield of product oil is 75%, and the GC-MS detection result shows that C in the components5-C12Alkane content 70%, and C5-C12The aromatic hydrocarbon content is only 3 percent, and the aromatic hydrocarbon can replace naphtha in the petroleum industry to be used as a plastic production raw material; the non-condensable part may be used for electricity/heat generation.
Example 2.
The new way of recycling the waste plastics chemically comprises the following process steps.
(1) Adding ferric nitrate into solutions of absolute ethyl alcohol, sodium hydroxide and the like to prepare a hydroxy metal pillared agent, then dropwise adding the pillared agent into a 3% clay suspension under the conditions of 80 degrees, pH 5 and metal/clay of 4mmmol/g, reacting for 2 hours, aging for 2 days in a constant-temperature water bath of 60 degrees, carrying out suction filtration, washing and drying for later use.
(2) The plastic chips were mixed with the metal oxide modified clay mineral catalyst prepared above according to a ratio of 1: 1, then mixing with 60 wt% of silicon carbide, and adding the mixture into a microwave reactor.
(3) After nitrogen is introduced to remove air in the reaction system, microwave equipment is started, the power is set to be 1kW, and reactants are heated to 550 ℃.
(4) Collecting the condensable part of the pyrolysis steam generated in the step (3) by a condensing device to obtain high-quality naphtha, wherein the comprehensive yield of product oil is 70%, and the GC-MS detection result shows that C in the components5-C12Alkane content 65%, and C5-C12The aromatic hydrocarbon content is only 4 percent, and the aromatic hydrocarbon can replace naphtha in the petroleum industry to be used as a plastic production raw material; the non-condensable part may be used for electricity/heat generation.
Example 3.
The new way of recycling the waste plastics chemically comprises the following process steps.
(1) Adding zirconium nitrate into solutions of absolute ethyl alcohol, sodium hydroxide and the like to prepare a hydroxy metal pillared agent, then dropwise adding the pillared agent into a 3% clay suspension under the conditions of 80 degrees, pH 5 and 6mmmol/g of metal/clay, reacting for 2 hours, aging for 2 days in a constant-temperature water bath of 60 degrees, carrying out suction filtration, washing and drying for later use.
(2) The plastic chips were mixed with the metal oxide modified clay mineral catalyst prepared above according to a ratio of 1: 1.5, mixing uniformly, mixing with 70 wt% of silicon carbide, and adding into a microwave reactor together.
(3) After nitrogen is introduced to remove air in the reaction system, microwave equipment is started, the power is set to be 1kW, and reactants are heated to 600 ℃.
(4) Collecting the condensable part of the pyrolysis steam generated in the step (3) by a condensing device to obtain high-quality naphtha, wherein the comprehensive yield of product oil is 72%, and the GC-MS detection result shows that C in the components5-C12Alkane content 66%, and C5-C12The aromatic hydrocarbon content is only 2 percent, and the aromatic hydrocarbon can replace naphtha in the petroleum industry to be used as a plastic production raw material; the non-condensable part may be used for electricity/heat generation.
Example 4.
The new way of recycling the waste plastics chemically comprises the following process steps.
(1) Adding titanium sulfate into solutions such as absolute ethyl alcohol and sodium hydroxide to prepare a hydroxy metal pillared agent, then dropwise adding the pillared agent into a 3% clay suspension under the conditions of 80 degrees, pH 4 and metal/clay of 8mmmol/g, reacting for 2 hours, aging for 2 days in a constant-temperature water bath of 60 degrees, carrying out suction filtration, washing and drying for later use.
(2) The plastic chips were mixed with the metal oxide modified clay mineral catalyst prepared above according to a ratio of 1: 3, mixing uniformly, mixing with 80 wt% of silicon carbide, and adding into a microwave reactor together.
(3) After nitrogen is introduced to remove air in the reaction system, microwave equipment is started, the power is set to be 1kW, and reactants are heated to 500 ℃.
(4) Collecting the condensable part of the pyrolysis steam generated in the step (3) by a condensing device to obtain high-quality naphtha, wherein the comprehensive yield of product oil is 71%, and the GC-MS detection result shows that C in the components5-C12Alkane content 65%, and C5-C12The aromatic hydrocarbon content is only 4 percent, and the aromatic hydrocarbon can replace naphtha in the petroleum industry to be used as a plastic production raw material; the non-condensable part may be used for electricity/heat generation.
The foregoing merely represents preferred embodiments of the invention, which are described in some detail and detail, and therefore should not be construed as limiting the scope of the invention. It should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, various changes, modifications and substitutions can be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention, and these are all within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present patent shall be subject to the appended claims.