Hey you might want to coat the inside of your reactor with silicon carbide if it wont contaminate your end product, there are a set of materials called susceptors, eg graphite, aluminum flakes and some ceramics, this could drive the temperature higher faster making your process more efficient
Keep going 💪 brother the brain 🧠 power is what the world needs . 🙌 The few see the view, keep going, and you should take a step back and really be proud of your mission and idea's, leaders' intuition is what you got here a great mind that's not afraid to shine keep it up! 🌎 I'm just that much more motivated and if you see this you should check out "thunder storm generator " plasma charges are used and it's almost fully self efficient just needs a 15%percent fuel to ignite it but once it's on its self efficient and starts to reverse carbon emissions you should reach out to them I think both of you have great designs that compliment each other's designs . If you have time, of course, but bravo 👏 man and gonna be watching your work and supporting all I can, and hopefully I can fund my own ideas soon 👏 👏 👏 again, Great job and keep going!
No shady pyramid scheme, no paid course, no advertisement for a company; just a man with a passion about a creation, yearning to teach the world about it. Kudos brother, you fighting the good fight
I’m a recently graduated chemical engineer, and I’d love to see this idea go big. Sure, it may be energy intensive, however it ultimately makes use of otherwise unusable materials. This is a brilliant project
This pyrolysis process is self sustainable....therefore the energy used is taken care. As a Chemical or process engineer you should make it work....polymers to monomers very much possible.....
@@elite_energies4330 I know it *could* be self sustaining, as it capitalizes on the massive energy density of the polymers. However, it is not wrong to say it is energy very intensive, as it requires a specialized system with a high energy input to receive the final output. The problem isn't the physical energy output at the end, the problem is purely the economics of it. To reasonably make it a self sustaining system, we will also need very high efficiency separation to refine the product into usable fuel. At its core, this system uses microwaves to heat the plastic, so to truly make it self sustaining as it is designed now, we will need to convert the chemical energy from the fuel product into electrical energy to power the system. As it is currently designed, this system cannot use the fuel directly as a source of heat. Ultimately, I would wager that the system is capable of being self sustaining, but there are a lot more factors that you have to consider. Will the monetary investment have a reasonable return? Will it be worth companies spending more resources to use this system in facilities? These are the things we have to ask. It takes a LOT more than the energy output being greater than the input. The cost of the reactor is only the first step as far as making a large scale system.
Energy intensive but I though of a trillion jobs that could spawn off this plus maybe the public could get paid a little something to stop throwing plastic out. At least pre Biden gas price cards for turning in a set amount monthly
You know this is an old idea, I've been messing with it since the 80's. About f'n time other people took serious interest in it!! Thank you for your explanations, now maybe more other people will understand what I am talking about.
@NatureJab: 18 years old !! Damn !! I am 65 years old, and I have to say, I am impressed !! I am also a "Maker" like you. I see from the things in the background that you accumulated a reasonable entry-level tool kit. It seems like you have a decent amount of space to spread out in (always a good thing !). You also seem to have a pretty good grip on troublesome World issues. For an 18 year old kid, that in and of itself is pretty amazing. I wish my 22y.o. had the same vision and drive. Focus and perseverance !!! The "Maker spirit can be summed up in one word "Obtainium" (the opposite of unobtainium). Parts and materials that you scrounge from whatever, and wherever. I have built much of my shop from Obtainium. Jigs, benches, carts (everything in my shop has to have wheels - No dedicated footprints), and tools that were out of my budget or not available. Maker = Thinking outside the box: Looking at things from a different angle than anybody else, and creatively reaching a solution that no one has thought of. With a healthy dose of DIY (do it yourself). Obtainium is recognizing the potential in parts and materials beyond their current usage. Repurposing..... That old microwave sitting at the curb ?! PARTS !!! Or, to use an older saying: "One man's trash is another man's treasure." (unobtainium = doesn't exist, or simply not available). Old, discarded Bed frames are a free/good source of Angle-Iron. Readily found near Apartment buildings and other places tenants move out of regularly (high turnover). Great stuff for frames, workbenches, carts, and other stuff that doesn't need a whole lot of strength. "Pinky and the Brain" (Warner Brothers cartoon Lab Rats) Pinky: "So, Brain.... what are we going to do tonight ?" Brain: "The same thing we do every night. Try to take over the World !!" You just might be able to do it !! Listen to your Mother. There is always a solution ! Now go out and find it..... or, better yet.... Make it !!!
Beautifully said, always love to hear from other makers & doers. Being resourceful and opportunistic, and always asking "How can this be done" is the way! Thank you!
Great Salemanship, haven't seen anyone else attempting to make a residential sized pyrolytic Reactor, been thinking we needed to miniaturized this tech for years, just remember the natural Resonance frequency of the chamber can help reduce energy loss if it's tuned also as a microwave resonate chamber.
this is actually really smart because we could eliminate the need to pump oil out of the ground and just get our oil as a byproduct of producing plastic. even if the oil is still a leading cause of emissions, this could be a huge leap in the right direction
we need to gather all the plastic waste and turn it into energy, the co2 can be gathered back growing wolffia, bamboo or any dead plant material that is turned to biochar instead of letting it rot away, when the earth's soils get full of biochar co2 won't bea problem, what we need to know is how to unlock oxygen so that we don't run short of it, with all that combustion we need to have as much biomass peiducing it, all the energy is coming from the sun in the end.
Hey jab this has inspired me to build one. I live in a country with a massive waste problem. We also have the largest used tyre landfill in the world. It cataches fire almost yearly in the summer due to high summer heat. causes black smoke that can be seen from the ISS. I hope you can help me a long the way.... im starting to watch all your videos from the start and will be studying this to recycle, reduce waste and generate clean energy.
Dr. Michael L. Curry 1 second ago I love your drive and resilience in an area that is so critical to the future of our community's health and posterity. And it will take a diverse set of minds - like yours - to bring about meaningful solutions to address this growing issue. Dr. Curry
Hey man, great video! I'm researching on how can I make a continous flow microwave reactor and the fact that you were able to make this at 18 years old is bloody impressive, hats of to you!
Absolutely amazing, I knew you could do it. I knew somebody would do it eventually. I too if thought long and hard about plastic pyrolysis, and it's nice to see somebody brave enough to venture there time and resources into production. I will follow you closely with much interest as I too believe this to be a viable process. Especially since I just spent many hundreds of dollars for heating oil for my house when I could have been collecting it all year with my trash.
Wow very nice! I’ve been planning on building a paralysis reactor that uses the light gases to heat and further crack the hydrocarbons but after seeing this I really like the microwave with renewable energy method of heating. My thought was to be able to equip a large ship with a big enough unit that I could go out to the island of plastic trash in the ocean and collect and process empty trash plastic 24/7 and have tanker ships pull up to bring the crude oil to refineries to turn it back into what we need. Garbage Island would disappear in no time also don’t forget pyrolysis is an excellent way to recycle used tires that often end up being buried or thrown in the woods somewhere. Keep up the great work and looking forward to more of your videos!
Thank you! It's amazing you want to build one as well, the more the better. I have a similar goal of attacking the garbage patch that way. Maybe one day we can do it together!
I’d love to help with it! Do you live in the USA? I am a machinist and welder by trade with the skill set to fix anything. I have so many ideas on this subject
Dang kid! Plenty of pyrolysis vids out there and the energy input was always an issue to me. I've liked the idea of concentrated solar. This seems much more technical yet practical. Keep it up! Hopefully you got yourself a scholarship somewhere, keep it up!
I feel like the energy output won't be a main seller of this but an extra upside. It may cost more energy than it produces, but more importantly it's removing a lot of waste while being very energy efficient
At surface level this might seem like a good idea but it contains styrene and all sorts of contaminants that will destroy any decent engine. It is exciting but there is a reason that the fuel companies with seriously educated engineers don't do it
@@maureendraper8019 how? If it was in any way economical to convert plastic/rubber into fuel then the fuel companies would do it... Trust me. There is a reason why petrochemical people distance themselves from recycling plastic.
Hi man, brilliant idea to use microwave! Could you share the power required to run the system and the outputs ? I am thinking about installing pyrolising system and make it available to villagers to engage them in collecting plastic on the beaches
Hi, the power consumption of this small unit is the same as a typical domestic Microwave Oven. It's 1000W or 1 kWh. The outputs are still being studied to find the exact energy potential. But So far, I have successfully created and compressed a calorific gas similar to that of natural gas / propane. Thanks for watching!
I work outside. From my own personal observations, those plastic lifetime numbers are WILDLY inflated. On the other hand, only a small fraction of plastics are recycled. So more power to you!!
I would be very interested if you can do this with auger/continious feed type system on small scale. Also precipitating oil for user to sell and compressing gas for cooking or further refining for industry (also for sale). You are onto something here i think. Very nice stuff!
When I was at the city dump the other day the recycling plastics truck pulled in right next to me and dumped all the recycle trash in the same pile as all the other trash. The only way to do it right is to do it yourself. Thank you
I recommended you write like a paper/study of ur progression, experience, and everything you have found out, basically write everything down. Not only would you be able to look back at all your progress and experience but you can also publish it when you get bigger and make lots of money (could help ur project further more) if it's big enough to be made into books that's also a possibility, meaning you can get donations.
Thank you so much for all you’re doing brother ! You’re truly an inspiration to humanity, I hope you can help make a major difference in this world by doing what you’re doing!
Been looking into this for a while and having made my first '"paint can reactor" (i guess i would call it). I've followed your tiktok for a while and only just found your channel. This explanation was the best and most in depth I've seen, I look forward to more, Keep up the good work!
Primarily Polyethelyne LDPE and HDPE. I can't tell how much sulfur level is in the output without proper tools, but I have many filters and scrubbers to remove chlorines, flourines, sulfurs, metals, ect
Great job. I love how much energy you have put in to your work . A call for the limiting all future plastic production is more viable and there are no emissions. The rant I could go on just about the over use of plastic containers for single use items is out of this world. Powered soap in cardboard boxes. Not millions of heavy plastic jugs. Most of the products that come in single use, can just as easily be sold in bulk right at the store. Bring your own jugs pun intended. This world of endless choices of soaps is crazy. That is just one product. Think about motor oil the plastic jugs from them are some tuff stuff. The whole economic model of single use anything is just cookoo for coco puffs. Good luck out there.
I hope that you are able to keep doing what your doing. Please don’t let “them” get to you and change or stop you from this. Stay strong and protect yourself and your family. With love.
you are one smart young man. If anyone can fix this problem I believe it is you. please don't burn down your parent's house or blow up a city block while experimenting. you have a future, keep thinking outside the box. Your video should be shown in science classes in high school. maybe it will inspire others to do something besides play video games and play on their phones.
Hi. Great work you solved many of the problems. Can you try this : try to make eps concrete to coat the inside of your reactor and this way you get better insulation the way to make it is easy, you mix cement, eps recycled beads ( shredd polystyrene foam), sand and water. This concrete is very insulative and very strong you can also put a wire mesh inside it to make it stronger. can tell me how you managed to attach the microwave without loss of sealing so no oxygen gets into the reactor?
I attached the microwave through a dielectric material. A material that allows microwaves to pass through it, but is heat and pressure resistant. This, combined with a silicon gasket makes a seal between the waveguide and the reactor. Thank you for your suggestion on insulation, I will look into that!
Im an undergraduate student majoring in chemical technology, and we have this as our thesis microwave pyrolysis. I want to ask if do you think it is possible to use a domestic microwave oven (the one we use at home to heat up food) for the pyrolysis process?
It is excellent you are majoring in chemical technology! The domestic microwave oven in itself is not airtight, so it cannot be used as a Pyrolysis reactor without heavy modification. However, the domestic microwave magnetron is more than powerful enough, and what I use in my custom built Pyrolysis reactor. Thank you!
I don’t know if you say In the video but what is the whole cost of the pyrolysis setup and solar panels? As well as how many waste products and how easily they can be disposed. I work very closely with a charity that helps small communities struggling with lack of energy and a large amount plastic waste. A technology like this if able to be easily setup and deployed could potentially be beneficial for both. Thank you
HI, All of the potential costs are just in theory, as the reactor I show here is merely a prototype. But we can calculate the potential costs. So, the reactor runs off the same power as your typical microwave oven, 1000W. In order to power this with solar panels, you need: Minimum 2000W inverter At least 2, 100ah batteries And 2 Solar Panels With this setup, it would take about 1 hour of charge mid day before the batteries will have enough charge to get it started. Amazon actually has a kit of all of this for $2,559 - the Inverter, Solar Panels, and Batteries (if you buy it all separate it comes out to be a little over $1,000) Then the reactor itself - There's no good way to estimate the price, but considering I know all the parts and labor it takes to make one I'd say no less than $1,500 per unit - not including the maintenance items (such as replacement catalyst and filters) So overall, let's put it out there and say a whole unit with solar panels to run and maintain would cost between $2,500 - $4,000 per unit. The current capacity of this experimental reactor is around 15 Liters ( close to a 4 gal bucket) worth of plastic per batch. I do wish to expand the capacity in the future, mind you. Every batch of plastic takes around 4 hours to complete. The amount of plastic that can fit in there is also heavily dependent on the plastic. For example, bags take up a lot less space than water bottles or PET packaging, which would need to be cut up. Hope this answered your question, thanks!
I have not done the math, as I have yet to run it off of solar panels. However a typical microwave runs off 1200W, and a batch of plastic takes about 4 hours to complete. Say the price of electricity is 12 cents in KWH, a single run would cost 14 cents at 4800W. However the cost would be eliminated if ran off renewable resources. The direct amount of energy to crack plastic into vapor is about 1.328 MJ/kg, And in every kg of plastic, about 42.3 MJ is recovered. Profit also will come from the solid products too, making it easily profitable between energy, solid, and chemical products.
U sure gotta gift of gab im with you thou been screamin pyrolysis for years now but thought bout microwave at one point cant remember why i shyed away prob lack of solar atm but anyway u got charisma youll go as far as your willing to push ill be seeing you sitting at the top someday
@@naturejab i remember y i shyed from microwave got to investigating solar via Fresnel lens if you haven't looked into it highly suggest checking it out really interesting and highly efficient
Thermodynamics may pose challenges, but it also presents unique opportunities for innovation. For instance, by utilizing solar energy (solarheat) and employing a rotating container, we can effectively distribute heat along the edges, allowing it to flow into the plastic material. This process enables us to harness solar power and convert waste materials into valuable raw resources, including combustible gases.
Very cool, whodda thunk it. I'm sure you're aware, but there are a couple of companies that work in plastic recycling, Tomra and Envipco. They might be able to help your cause with some equipment, etc. like shredders and the like. Always easier if you can incorporate an existing module into your plans so you don't have to reinvent the wheel at every turn. Just a thought. Good luck and God bless. I have to bet you have great parents to foster and encourage such imagination and persistance. Kudos to your folks!
This genuinely really interests me! I remember Porsche developing a similar concept of converting carbon emissions back into gasoline, however it was extremely inefficient. I sincerely hope you see this, as i feel these questions need to be answered before i place confidence in this. 1. At this time, are you able to generate usable quantities of fuel? If so, have you attempted to calculate it's energy density, or at least qualitatively compare to traditional Diesel? 2. How much energy is required to convert 1 unit of plastic into fuel? How much fuel is produced from this? If #1 is fully answered, would you be able to give a rough estimate for the total efficiency of the system (energy of factors -> energy of products) Id love to read the paper on this, however it appears the link in the description of the video is broken and does not lead anywhere. Hope this project takes off!
I’m entering my third year into robotic engineering so my chemistry is rudimentary to say the least… however it’s so fun watching the minds of brilliant people work. If you don’t mind me asking how many Joules does it take per mol of plastic (on average accounting for different polymers) to transition into fuel and what’s the caloric release per consumption of one mol of fuel? From the robotic standpoint this could be an amazing way to create something to clean underwater and continue to fuel itself without re-surfacing, keep up the amazing work!
Thanks! Unfortunantly, I have no where near the tools to know these things. However, you may find answers via research papers online i.e www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenrg.2019.00027/full
This is a complete lie & I can’t believe how many people are gullible enough to believe it. It is easy to research & see that you don’t instantly get refined gas from plastic 🤦🏼
Also as a baseline chemist myself I'm amazed at your engineering if you can. I love to talk more if you want to shoot me an email to discuss further. Really great job here.
Sir we are planning to set up non- microwave pyrolysis plant. Is it okay?? But don't know how people will look at this fuel & what if they don't buy!!!? Sir distillation/ refinery machines are needed in this??
What is the difference between a gassifier and your microwave pyroclastic method other than using natural gas to run the gassifier? You can store the natural gas created by the gassifier to run the gassifier. And distill the by product liquid into gasoline, kerosene, and charcoal. Your microwave is more efficient?
Neat idea but for areas without high wattage electrical supplies one can burn any fuel to do the job as Syrians do in Aleppo and elsewhere. How clean the flame is depends on the fuel and burner but no electricity required makes it more accessible, so if you can do a purely mechanical version that would help more people in isolated areas who don't have money for electricity or generators.
Thank you all for watching! For more details, please read the description. Have a happy New Year!
Hey you might want to coat the inside of your reactor with silicon carbide if it wont contaminate your end product, there are a set of materials called susceptors, eg graphite, aluminum flakes and some ceramics, this could drive the temperature higher faster making your process more efficient
Love from NYC stay safe
try 1 batch of HDPE plastic
Keep going 💪 brother the brain 🧠 power is what the world needs . 🙌 The few see the view, keep going, and you should take a step back and really be proud of your mission and idea's, leaders' intuition is what you got here a great mind that's not afraid to shine keep it up! 🌎 I'm just that much more motivated and if you see this you should check out "thunder storm generator " plasma charges are used and it's almost fully self efficient just needs a 15%percent fuel to ignite it but once it's on its self efficient and starts to reverse carbon emissions you should reach out to them I think both of you have great designs that compliment each other's designs . If you have time, of course, but bravo 👏 man and gonna be watching your work and supporting all I can, and hopefully I can fund my own ideas soon 👏 👏 👏 again, Great job and keep going!
How much money you need to scale it up into a megastructure recycling plant
No shady pyramid scheme, no paid course, no advertisement for a company; just a man with a passion about a creation, yearning to teach the world about it. Kudos brother, you fighting the good fight
I’m a recently graduated chemical engineer, and I’d love to see this idea go big. Sure, it may be energy intensive, however it ultimately makes use of otherwise unusable materials. This is a brilliant project
Perfectly said, thank you!
This pyrolysis process is self sustainable....therefore the energy used is taken care. As a Chemical or process engineer you should make it work....polymers to monomers very much possible.....
@@elite_energies4330 I know it *could* be self sustaining, as it capitalizes on the massive energy density of the polymers. However, it is not wrong to say it is energy very intensive, as it requires a specialized system with a high energy input to receive the final output. The problem isn't the physical energy output at the end, the problem is purely the economics of it. To reasonably make it a self sustaining system, we will also need very high efficiency separation to refine the product into usable fuel. At its core, this system uses microwaves to heat the plastic, so to truly make it self sustaining as it is designed now, we will need to convert the chemical energy from the fuel product into electrical energy to power the system. As it is currently designed, this system cannot use the fuel directly as a source of heat.
Ultimately, I would wager that the system is capable of being self sustaining, but there are a lot more factors that you have to consider. Will the monetary investment have a reasonable return? Will it be worth companies spending more resources to use this system in facilities? These are the things we have to ask. It takes a LOT more than the energy output being greater than the input. The cost of the reactor is only the first step as far as making a large scale system.
Energy intensive but I though of a trillion jobs that could spawn off this plus maybe the public could get paid a little something to stop throwing plastic out. At least pre Biden gas price cards for turning in a set amount monthly
You know this is an old idea, I've been messing with it since the 80's.
About f'n time other people took serious interest in it!!
Thank you for your explanations, now maybe more other people will understand what I am talking about.
@NatureJab: 18 years old !! Damn !! I am 65 years old, and I have to say, I am impressed !!
I am also a "Maker" like you.
I see from the things in the background that you accumulated a reasonable entry-level tool kit. It seems like you have a decent amount of space to spread out in (always a good thing !).
You also seem to have a pretty good grip on troublesome World issues. For an 18 year old kid, that in and of itself is pretty amazing. I wish my 22y.o. had the same vision and drive.
Focus and perseverance !!!
The "Maker spirit can be summed up in one word "Obtainium" (the opposite of unobtainium). Parts and materials that you scrounge from whatever, and wherever. I have built much of my shop from Obtainium. Jigs, benches, carts (everything in my shop has to have wheels - No dedicated footprints), and tools that were out of my budget or not available.
Maker = Thinking outside the box: Looking at things from a different angle than anybody else, and creatively reaching a solution that no one has thought of. With a healthy dose of DIY (do it yourself).
Obtainium is recognizing the potential in parts and materials beyond their current usage. Repurposing..... That old microwave sitting at the curb ?! PARTS !!!
Or, to use an older saying: "One man's trash is another man's treasure."
(unobtainium = doesn't exist, or simply not available).
Old, discarded Bed frames are a free/good source of Angle-Iron. Readily found near Apartment buildings and other places tenants move out of regularly (high turnover). Great stuff for frames, workbenches, carts, and other stuff that doesn't need a whole lot of strength.
"Pinky and the Brain" (Warner Brothers cartoon Lab Rats) Pinky: "So, Brain.... what are we going to do tonight ?" Brain: "The same thing we do every night. Try to take over the World !!"
You just might be able to do it !!
Listen to your Mother. There is always a solution ! Now go out and find it..... or, better yet.... Make it !!!
Beautifully said, always love to hear from other makers & doers. Being resourceful and opportunistic, and always asking "How can this be done" is the way!
Thank you!
@@naturejab : You are welcome. Your premises are solid.
Great Salemanship, haven't seen anyone else attempting to make a residential sized pyrolytic Reactor, been thinking we needed to miniaturized this tech for years, just remember the natural Resonance frequency of the chamber can help reduce energy loss if it's tuned also as a microwave resonate chamber.
Thanks!
You Sir, are a genius. Brilliant invention, explanation, and philosophy! Thank you for blessing US with this and blessings to you and all!
You are so welcome thank you!
@@naturejab fr keep up the great work man never give up
I’m 18 and I’ve been wanting to do thing stuff too since I was about 15. Props to you for actually making this
this is actually really smart because we could eliminate the need to pump oil out of the ground and just get our oil as a byproduct of producing plastic. even if the oil is still a leading cause of emissions, this could be a huge leap in the right direction
For sure!
we need to gather all the plastic waste and turn it into energy, the co2 can be gathered back growing wolffia, bamboo or any dead plant material that is turned to biochar instead of letting it rot away, when the earth's soils get full of biochar co2 won't bea problem, what we need to know is how to unlock oxygen so that we don't run short of it, with all that combustion we need to have as much biomass peiducing it, all the energy is coming from the sun in the end.
Hey jab this has inspired me to build one. I live in a country with a massive waste problem. We also have the largest used tyre landfill in the world. It cataches fire almost yearly in the summer due to high summer heat. causes black smoke that can be seen from the ISS. I hope you can help me a long the way.... im starting to watch all your videos from the start and will be studying this to recycle, reduce waste and generate clean energy.
I'm finally getting around to binge-watching all your videos, here goes!
Dr. Michael L. Curry
1 second ago
I love your drive and resilience in an area that is so critical to the future of our community's health and posterity. And it will take a diverse set of minds - like yours - to bring about meaningful solutions to address this growing issue.
Dr. Curry
Thank you so much!
Hey man, great video! I'm researching on how can I make a continous flow microwave reactor and the fact that you were able to make this at 18 years old is bloody impressive, hats of to you!
Absolutely amazing, I knew you could do it. I knew somebody would do it eventually.
I too if thought long and hard about plastic pyrolysis, and it's nice to see somebody brave enough to venture there time and resources into production.
I will follow you closely with much interest as I too believe this to be a viable process.
Especially since I just spent many hundreds of dollars for heating oil for my house when I could have been collecting it all year with my trash.
Wow very nice! I’ve been planning on building a paralysis reactor that uses the light gases to heat and further crack the hydrocarbons but after seeing this I really like the microwave with renewable energy method of heating. My thought was to be able to equip a large ship with a big enough unit that I could go out to the island of plastic trash in the ocean and collect and process empty trash plastic 24/7 and have tanker ships pull up to bring the crude oil to refineries to turn it back into what we need. Garbage Island would disappear in no time also don’t forget pyrolysis is an excellent way to recycle used tires that often end up being buried or thrown in the woods somewhere. Keep up the great work and looking forward to more of your videos!
Thank you! It's amazing you want to build one as well, the more the better. I have a similar goal of attacking the garbage patch that way. Maybe one day we can do it together!
@@naturejab that sounds awesome! The more great minds we have on these problems the quicker they become solutions!!!
I’d love to help with it! Do you live in the USA?
I am a machinist and welder by trade with the skill set to fix anything. I have so many ideas on this subject
@@bencapobianco2045 So sorry for the late reply, I live in Georgia, US. I am a welder too, we most definently should chat sometime. Email me!
Dang kid! Plenty of pyrolysis vids out there and the energy input was always an issue to me. I've liked the idea of concentrated solar. This seems much more technical yet practical. Keep it up! Hopefully you got yourself a scholarship somewhere, keep it up!
Thank you!
I feel like the energy output won't be a main seller of this but an extra upside. It may cost more energy than it produces, but more importantly it's removing a lot of waste while being very energy efficient
Exactly! This is exactly how I see it!
Extremely well done video. Clear and precise as well as entertaining. Keep it up!
Great idea!! You should try cutting the oil with diesel fuel and try running it in a diesel vehicle
Yessir! This is what Im currently working on now.
At surface level this might seem like a good idea but it contains styrene and all sorts of contaminants that will destroy any decent engine. It is exciting but there is a reason that the fuel companies with seriously educated engineers don't do it
@@Kylegouws yeah because they wouldn't make as much money!
@@maureendraper8019 how? If it was in any way economical to convert plastic/rubber into fuel then the fuel companies would do it... Trust me. There is a reason why petrochemical people distance themselves from recycling plastic.
Im fascinated by this this is exactly what ive been looking for
Hi man, brilliant idea to use microwave! Could you share the power required to run the system and the outputs ? I am thinking about installing pyrolising system and make it available to villagers to engage them in collecting plastic on the beaches
Hi, the power consumption of this small unit is the same as a typical domestic Microwave Oven. It's 1000W or 1 kWh. The outputs are still being studied to find the exact energy potential. But So far, I have successfully created and compressed a calorific gas similar to that of natural gas / propane. Thanks for watching!
How’s this going?
Yeah how’s it going?????
Love you bro. Never stop. So proud
Absolutely brilliant my guy! Wish I had friends like you when I was 18.
I love doing experiments.
Awesome project, you took the next step. Thanks for this video, love to connect
I work outside. From my own personal observations, those plastic lifetime numbers are WILDLY inflated. On the other hand, only a small fraction of plastics are recycled. So more power to you!!
Please keep doing what you are doing! Looking forward to seeing you succeed!
Your one of the people that inspired me to go into engineering. Appreciate what you’re doing for the world brother.
Wow so cool. Great to see peeps getting practical and into it
good presentation and explination of the topic. excellent work.
I would be very interested if you can do this with auger/continious feed type system on small scale. Also precipitating oil for user to sell and compressing gas for cooking or further refining for industry (also for sale). You are onto something here i think. Very nice stuff!
This is exactly so, in some of my other videos where I'm working towards an auger and gas storage!
Of course Neil Degrass Tyson would say some thing like para : " It all comes from stars but can only return to Blackholes.
When I was at the city dump the other day the recycling plastics truck pulled in right next to me and dumped all the recycle trash in the same pile as all the other trash. The only way to do it right is to do it yourself. Thank you
Great video seriously wow your on the good path keep it up❤
Innovation+Effeciency.....very impressive....very impressive
Very inspiring project! Cheers from Brazil!
I recommended you write like a paper/study of ur progression, experience, and everything you have found out, basically write everything down. Not only would you be able to look back at all your progress and experience but you can also publish it when you get bigger and make lots of money (could help ur project further more) if it's big enough to be made into books that's also a possibility, meaning you can get donations.
This is amazing. I own a packaging Distrbution company. I’m looking for a way to take back the packaging I sell and convert it into something usable.
Genius next step from the gasification process, well done man!
Thank you so much for all you’re doing brother ! You’re truly an inspiration to humanity, I hope you can help make a major difference in this world by doing what you’re doing!
Thank you!
Love your spirit sir! Subscribing now
You are 100% correct. Plastics to fuel is the biggest savings we can use.
The beginning of a revolution
Been looking into this for a while and having made my first '"paint can reactor" (i guess i would call it). I've followed your tiktok for a while and only just found your channel. This explanation was the best and most in depth I've seen, I look forward to more, Keep up the good work!
what types of polymers do you use in the reactor? Also are you able to tell what the sulfur level is for the output?
Primarily Polyethelyne LDPE and HDPE. I can't tell how much sulfur level is in the output without proper tools, but I have many filters and scrubbers to remove chlorines, flourines, sulfurs, metals, ect
This actually could be the next big thing you have my full support ✊
Same
Great job. I love how much energy you have put in to your work . A call for the limiting all future plastic production is more viable and there are no emissions. The rant I could go on just about the over use of plastic containers for single use items is out of this world. Powered soap in cardboard boxes. Not millions of heavy plastic jugs. Most of the products that come in single use, can just as easily be sold in bulk right at the store. Bring your own jugs pun intended. This world of endless choices of soaps is crazy. That is just one product. Think about motor oil the plastic jugs from them are some tuff stuff. The whole economic model of single use anything is just cookoo for coco puffs. Good luck out there.
Well done my friend, well done!
Great presentation. Well thought out.
Thank you!
Im so happy i followed since the start
I see myself in this genuine and genius young man i think we might share same scientific ambitions, well done 👍🏾 do not ever give up, keep it up.
I hope that you are able to keep doing what your doing. Please don’t let “them” get to you and change or stop you from this. Stay strong and protect yourself and your family. With love.
you are one smart young man. If anyone can fix this problem I believe it is you. please don't burn down your parent's house or blow up a city block while experimenting. you have a future, keep thinking outside the box. Your video should be shown in science classes in high school. maybe it will inspire others to do something besides play video games and play on their phones.
Thank you! I'll do my best not to blow anything up, haha
I would love to buy one of these when I buy my home.
pyrolosis is pretty much deflationary in nature because it intends to recycle 100 percent of the land fills
A closed loop sytstem!
I can't wait to share with my 5th grade students. Great information for their IB research and exhibition.
That is great, thank you so much!
Hi. Great work you solved many of the problems. Can you try this : try to make eps concrete to coat the inside of your reactor and this way you get better insulation the way to make it is easy, you mix cement, eps recycled beads ( shredd polystyrene foam), sand and water. This concrete is very insulative and very strong you can also put a wire mesh inside it to make it stronger. can tell me how you managed to attach the microwave without loss of sealing so no oxygen gets into the reactor?
I attached the microwave through a dielectric material. A material that allows microwaves to pass through it, but is heat and pressure resistant. This, combined with a silicon gasket makes a seal between the waveguide and the reactor. Thank you for your suggestion on insulation, I will look into that!
How much power did it require to run the microwaves in kW
This is fabulous
What temp did you get in the white microwave set up in this video?
This is the time that you get security 🤔🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿good luck on your Quest
Savvy vid, love it! But how did you solve the organic chloride problem in the oil?
Scrubbers & filters
@@naturejab some help? Imma trying a pyrolysis reactor for my local community, but can't remove organic chloride😥
@@Shibagye React it with alkaline water - sodium hydroxide
Nikola Tesla would be proud of you...you are an encouragement to us all. I hope youre getting tons of scholarships to MIT!
Thank you so much! This made my day :)
This guy can change the world. Keep the hard work. 💪
keep going bro you are a motivation. You are a man.
I love backyard prototypes, absolute art
You have to patent this! This could solve so many problems!
Fantastic. Is it possible to use fresnel lenses with solar rigs to part power?
Im an undergraduate student majoring in chemical technology, and we have this as our thesis microwave pyrolysis. I want to ask if do you think it is possible to use a domestic microwave oven (the one we use at home to heat up food) for the pyrolysis process?
It is excellent you are majoring in chemical technology! The domestic microwave oven in itself is not airtight, so it cannot be used as a Pyrolysis reactor without heavy modification. However, the domestic microwave magnetron is more than powerful enough, and what I use in my custom built Pyrolysis reactor. Thank you!
Hi I came from tik tok j am amazed by your invention and will support you I am glad to see your professional presentation and channel and website
Thank you!!
Is there any way to reutilize the emissions from microwave pyrolysis?
We already do!
Did you create the machine that creates the microwaves or did you us an existing one. Either way, very impressive!
I used and existing magnetron (the device that creates microwaves)
I don’t know if you say In the video but what is the whole cost of the pyrolysis setup and solar panels? As well as how many waste products and how easily they can be disposed. I work very closely with a charity that helps small communities struggling with lack of energy and a large amount plastic waste. A technology like this if able to be easily setup and deployed could potentially be beneficial for both.
Thank you
HI, All of the potential costs are just in theory, as the reactor I show here is merely a prototype. But we can calculate the potential costs. So, the reactor runs off the same power as your typical microwave oven, 1000W. In order to power this with solar panels, you need:
Minimum 2000W inverter
At least 2, 100ah batteries
And 2 Solar Panels
With this setup, it would take about 1 hour of charge mid day before the batteries will have enough charge to get it started.
Amazon actually has a kit of all of this for $2,559 - the Inverter, Solar Panels, and Batteries (if you buy it all separate it comes out to be a little over $1,000)
Then the reactor itself - There's no good way to estimate the price, but considering I know all the parts and labor it takes to make one I'd say no less than $1,500 per unit - not including the maintenance items (such as replacement catalyst and filters)
So overall, let's put it out there and say a whole unit with solar panels to run and maintain would cost between $2,500 - $4,000 per unit.
The current capacity of this experimental reactor is around 15 Liters ( close to a 4 gal bucket) worth of plastic per batch. I do wish to expand the capacity in the future, mind you.
Every batch of plastic takes around 4 hours to complete.
The amount of plastic that can fit in there is also heavily dependent on the plastic. For example, bags take up a lot less space than water bottles or PET packaging, which would need to be cut up.
Hope this answered your question, thanks!
Question: How mucg energy do you havw to inject into the system in order to obtain 1 liter of fuel?
your awesome dude keep on doing what you do!
So what's the EROI (Energy Returned on Investment) ?
I have not done the math, as I have yet to run it off of solar panels. However a typical microwave runs off 1200W, and a batch of plastic takes about 4 hours to complete. Say the price of electricity is 12 cents in KWH, a single run would cost 14 cents at 4800W. However the cost would be eliminated if ran off renewable resources. The direct amount of energy to crack plastic into vapor is about 1.328 MJ/kg,
And in every kg of plastic, about 42.3 MJ is recovered. Profit also will come from the solid products too, making it easily profitable between energy, solid, and chemical products.
U sure gotta gift of gab im with you thou been screamin pyrolysis for years now but thought bout microwave at one point cant remember why i shyed away prob lack of solar atm but anyway u got charisma youll go as far as your willing to push ill be seeing you sitting at the top someday
Thank you!
@@naturejab i remember y i shyed from microwave got to investigating solar via Fresnel lens if you haven't looked into it highly suggest checking it out really interesting and highly efficient
Absolutely brilliant my friend. Be safe and keep moving mankind forward.
Fantastic 👍💪🏽🏆
Are blueprints available? Just in case something happens we can carry on this legend.
I have schematics in my discord server. I'll be making a tutorial series on how to make this eventually.
Have you measure the input energy vs output energy ? Is it cost effective?
Thermodynamics may pose challenges, but it also presents unique opportunities for innovation. For instance, by utilizing solar energy (solarheat) and employing a rotating container, we can effectively distribute heat along the edges, allowing it to flow into the plastic material. This process enables us to harness solar power and convert waste materials into valuable raw resources, including combustible gases.
this is beyond smart ... i wish i could understand how to build one myself! so cool
Legendary🔥🔥🔥
Very cool, whodda thunk it.
I'm sure you're aware, but there are a couple of companies that work in plastic recycling, Tomra and Envipco. They might be able to help your cause with some equipment, etc. like shredders and the like. Always easier if you can incorporate an existing module into your plans so you don't have to reinvent the wheel at every turn. Just a thought.
Good luck and God bless. I have to bet you have great parents to foster and encourage such imagination and persistance. Kudos to your folks!
Good presentation and information and craftmanship.
This genuinely really interests me! I remember Porsche developing a similar concept of converting carbon emissions back into gasoline, however it was extremely inefficient. I sincerely hope you see this, as i feel these questions need to be answered before i place confidence in this.
1. At this time, are you able to generate usable quantities of fuel? If so, have you attempted to calculate it's energy density, or at least qualitatively compare to traditional Diesel?
2. How much energy is required to convert 1 unit of plastic into fuel? How much fuel is produced from this? If #1 is fully answered, would you be able to give a rough estimate for the total efficiency of the system (energy of factors -> energy of products)
Id love to read the paper on this, however it appears the link in the description of the video is broken and does not lead anywhere. Hope this project takes off!
I’m entering my third year into robotic engineering so my chemistry is rudimentary to say the least… however it’s so fun watching the minds of brilliant people work. If you don’t mind me asking how many Joules does it take per mol of plastic (on average accounting for different polymers) to transition into fuel and what’s the caloric release per consumption of one mol of fuel? From the robotic standpoint this could be an amazing way to create something to clean underwater and continue to fuel itself without re-surfacing, keep up the amazing work!
Also please feel free to correct me if my verbiage for the chemistry is wrong I tried to word it best I could😅
Thanks! Unfortunantly, I have no where near the tools to know these things. However, you may find answers via research papers online i.e www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenrg.2019.00027/full
This is a complete lie & I can’t believe how many people are gullible enough to believe it. It is easy to research & see that you don’t instantly get refined gas from plastic 🤦🏼
Also as a baseline chemist myself I'm amazed at your engineering if you can. I love to talk more if you want to shoot me an email to discuss further. Really great job here.
Email me! Julian.brown@naturejab.com Thanks!
Sir we are planning to set up non- microwave pyrolysis plant. Is it okay?? But don't know how people will look at this fuel & what if they don't buy!!!? Sir distillation/ refinery machines are needed in this??
Hows about putting out public plans for the microwave part/design of you reactor
I don't have it complete yet. Once it's done, that'll be something to look into. Cheers.
How do you ratio the feed of plastics, voltage, Inert gases? if I have to create a light crude oil from plastics for around say 1 Liter?
What is the difference between a gassifier and your microwave pyroclastic method other than using natural gas to run the gassifier? You can store the natural gas created by the gassifier to run the gassifier. And distill the by product liquid into gasoline, kerosene, and charcoal. Your microwave is more efficient?
Same thing motivates me to search for your video!!!
Can you use the fuel from the reactor to power the microwaves using a generator?
In theory, yes
Neat idea but for areas without high wattage electrical supplies one can burn any fuel to do the job as Syrians do in Aleppo and elsewhere. How clean the flame is depends on the fuel and burner but no electricity required makes it more accessible, so if you can do a purely mechanical version that would help more people in isolated areas who don't have money for electricity or generators.
Great point
Where do we invest?
Gofundeme!
how much energy is required to produce a lt of fuel using ths method? thanks
I’m ready to invest! You are so smart!❤
I love it ❤ good job
How can i contribute my empty plastic bottles to this project, live in Georgia USA