Andreas Lechleitner

Mr. Andreas Lechleitner

Chair for Process Technology and Industrial Environmental Protection, Montanuniversitaet Leoben
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Academic Career Length

7Years (2020-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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25 December 2020 in Processes
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TSTeresa Schubert
Teresa Schubert
WHwolfgang Hofer
wolfgang Hofer
Markus LehnerMarkus Lehner
Markus Lehner
The recycling rates, especially those from plastic packaging waste, have to be increased according to the European Union directive in the next years. Besides many other technologies, the pyrolysis of plastic wastes seems to be an efficient supplementary opportunity to treat mixed and unpurified plastic streams. For this reason, a pyrolysis process was developed for the chemical recycling of hydrocarbons from waste polyolefins. The obtained products can be further processed and upgraded in crude oil refineries, so that also monomers can be recovered, which are used for the plastic polymerization again. However, to achieve a scale up to a demo plant, a kinetic model for predicting the yields of the plastic pyrolysis in a tubular reactor is needed. For this reason, a pilot plant was built, in which different plastics and carrier fluids can be tested. Based on the data generated at the pilot plant, a very practical and suitable model was found to describe the plastic co-pyrolysis of the carrier fluid with polypropylene (PP) and low density and high density polyethylene (HDPE and LDPE), respectively. The physical and chemical mechanisms of the co-pyrolysis in the tubular reactor are successfully investigated.

28 August 2020 in Chemie Ingenieur Technik
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TST. Schubert
T. Schubert
MLM. Lehner
M. Lehner
WHW. Hofer
W. Hofer