Pyrolysis is one of the common strategies for converting plastics to fuel. The essential steps in the pyrolysis of plastics, outlined by Jesse Klinkhamer of Klean Industries, involve:
Purging - oxygen from pyrolysis chamber,
Evenly - heating the plastic to a narrow temperature range without excessive temperature variations
Pyrolising - the plastics
Catalytic conversion - of the gases to specific carbon chain lengths
Managing - the carbonaceous char by-product before it acts as a thermal insulator and lowers the heat transfer to the plastic
Careful - condensation and fractionation of the pyrolysis vapors to produce fuels of excellent quality and consistency