June 12, 2019 | NIFA Update
A research group led by Washington State University (WSU) scientists has found a way to turn daily plastic waste products into jet fuel.
In a new paper published in the journal Applied Energy, WSU’s Hanwu Lei and colleagues melted plastic waste at high temperature with activated carbon, a processed carbon with increased surface area, to produce jet fuel.
“Waste plastic is a huge problem worldwide,” said Lei, a professor in WSU’s Department of Biological System Engineering.
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