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EUBCE 2024 - Hary DEMEY - Understanding the Conversion Mechanisms in Supercritical Water Conditions of Pet as a Model Compound of Plastic Wastes

Understanding the Conversion Mechanisms in Supercritical Water Conditions of Pet as a Model Compound of Plastic Wastes

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Understanding the Conversion Mechanisms in Supercritical Water Conditions of Pet as a Model Compound of Plastic Wastes

Short Introductive summary

This work aims to study the conversion mechanisms of plastic wastes into valuable molecules (such as methane and hydrogen) through catalytic supercritical water gasification (SCWG) process. For this study, Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) was used as a model molecule of plastic wastes. Understanding the behaviour of plastics is crucial to advance in the development of this technology and to explore its potential for the thermal-conversion of wastes into a high calorific gas. This work contributes to the pollution mitigation and promotes the circular economy of resources.

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Hary DEMEY

Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, CEA/DRT/LITEN/DTCH/SCPC/LRP Dpt., FRANCE

Presenter's biography

Hary Demey is a research engineer, working at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). He has obtained his doctoral degree on chemical engineering processes at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) –Spain, in which he has obtained the CUM LAUDE honorific mention.

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Co-authors:

H. Demey, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, Grenoble, FRANCE
L. Sepini, Federal University of Lavras, Engineering school, Lavras Brasil, Grenoble, FRANCE
I Petri, Federal University of Lavras, Engineering School,, Lavras, BRAZIL
A Chappaz, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, Grenoble, FRANCE

Session reference: 5DV.2.4