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2021-05-18 Science & Technology

The future of recycling? Scientists develop a method to convert waste plastics into JET FUEL in less than an hour

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-05-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 I am currently working on a project to recycle PET plastics. Methanolysis involves the retreatment of PET with methanol, under pressure at around 200°C and results in depolymerisation giving dimethyl terephthalate (DMT) and ethylene glycol (EG). This is then re-combined to produce raw PET that can then be made in to products.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2021-05-18 10:30|| 2021-05-18 10:30|| Front Page Top

#2 ^N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT or N,N-DMT) is a chemical substance that occurs in many plants and animals and which is both a derivative and a structural analog of tryptamine. It is used as a recreational psychedelic drug and prepared by various cultures for ritual purposes as an entheogen.
Formula: C12H16N2

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-05-18 11:58|| 2021-05-18 11:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Of course you first have to separate the PET from everything else.

Posted by magpie 2021-05-18 12:59|| 2021-05-18 12:59|| Front Page Top

#4
Master Halifax is sadly dead.
We've attached the prefix 'Late'.
For what he thought was tryptamine,
was actually terephthalate.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-05-18 14:40|| 2021-05-18 14:40|| Front Page Top

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