Hyderabad:In a row to fight the peril of plastic waste, a mechanical engineer has claimed of turning plastic waste into fuel.
According to a report, by the year 2050, there would be more plastic in the oceans than fishes. This is a devastating fact.
People across the country are making efforts at eradicating plastic on their own level. Satish Kumar is one of them.
Satish is a Hyderabad-based engineer who is using end-life plastic, that cannot be recycled anymore to produce synthetic fuel.
“About 500 kg of non-recyclable plastic can produce 400 litres of fuel,” said Mr Kumar.
Kumar uses a three-step reverse engineering process where the plastic is indirectly heated in vacuum, de-polymerised, gasified and then condensed.
Hyderabad engineer's initiative to generate fuel from plastic As a result of this, three synthetic fuels, namely diesel, aviation fuel and petrol(similar) are generated. These fuels resemble petrol in their properties but are different from it.
The process being used for the production of these combustible fluids is entirely different from plastic pyrolysis. This unique system of fuel generation does not require a chimney and leaves back no residue.
The gas produced in the process is used to run generators and residual carbon waste is used as fertilizer in plants.
About 80 per cent of the clothes people wear are made up of plastic. All the confectionery products and medical supplies are plastic-based. Today, people cannot live without plastic.
And Satish says that they do not need to. He says that the need is to use plastic wisely and not 'not using it'.
His aim is to make people understand that plastic is nothing more than fuel that can be processed at smaller levels too.
Plastic is so abundantly present on the earth that even after its generation is stopped, it would take years to tackle the issue of already accumulated plastic waste.
Satish Kumar asserted that there is a need to make and impose strict laws and charge fines so that people think about wisely using plastic.
Kumar believes that there are only five types of waste- glass, metal, paper, plastic and organic waste and all of these could be dealt with wisely and effectively.
Satish says that India can become the vanishing hub of plastic if awareness about initiatives like his is spread properly.
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