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There are so many possibilities. Even without any catalysts, just mix plastics with NaOH+KOH, melt it up and you can get benzene and other advanced chemicals no
by rini17 1y ago
There are so many possibilities. Even without any catalysts, just mix plastics with NaOH+KOH, melt it up and you can get benzene and other advanced chemicals not only syngas. Wonder why such ideas apparently never come to scale.
- bell-cot 1y agoI'd ask an old chemical engineer about that. In general, "it'd be easy to scale up process X" is very different from "we would not lose $millions every week if we did that". And every "valuable" product of your reaction has to be separated, purified, packaged, sold, & shipped. Into a market with its own supply-demand price curve.
- rini17 1y agoI think the engineer would just shrug "making stuff from oil is cheaper than everything else".