A Kinetic Model-Driven Techno-Economic Analysis of Plastic Pyrolysis: Linking Process Dynamics to Economic Viability
Farhad Zaker Hosseiny, Rui Shi · 2026
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Farhad Zaker Hosseiny and Rui Shi linked in 2026 a kinetic model of plastic pyrolysis to a full economic assessment. Pyrolysis cooks waste plastic into oil, but whether the oil can pay its way is unsettled. Their model inside a process simulator predicted product splits across conditions for a plant handling one hundred thousand tons a year.
The best operating point priced the oil near four hundred twenty dollars per ton, a third below the recent crude benchmark they used. When uncertainty in prices and performance entered through simulation, the average break-even price jumped far higher. Feedstock must stay under about three hundred twenty dollars per ton for the venture to hold. Bigger plants past ninety thousand tons gained little from scale. The authors conclude pyrolysis oil likely needs policy support to compete with crude.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Farhad Zaker Hosseiny, Rui Shi |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 48 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |