[Stoves] Is this a good or bad direction - Plastic in fuel

Andrew Heggie aj.heggie at gmail.com
Tue Jun 27 11:19:15 CDT 2017


On 27 June 2017 at 16:22, Tom Miles <tmiles at trmiles.com> wrote:
> Proceed with caution. It is very easy to make plastic to oil with a carbon
> residue that has toxic levels of benzene so small scale techniques may  be
> challenging.

PVC produces dioxin when poorly oxidised, so presumably the products
of pyrolysis would also lead to this?

Burned at high temperature PVC  will form a white cloud of
hydrochloric acid as the hydrogen chloride pulls moisture from the
air.

Andrew




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