Design and Control of a Pyrolysis Reactor to Obtain Fuel with Plastic Waste in Huancayo-Peru

Abstract

The present research work includes the design and control of a plant for obtaining fuel through plastic waste in the city of Huancayo, it has a non-experimental quantitative method, using the German VDDI 2221 methodology and mathematical models of heat and mass transfer and selection of electronic components. The main objective is to design the fixed bed reactor and the ZSM-5 zeolite catalyst, in order to take advantage of solid waste such as polymers, to be able to transform them into fuel through the gasification produced in the reactor at an ideal temperature of 400 °C, continuing the condensation process through the heat exchanger that uses the refrigerant to obtain it in liquid form at a final temperature of 19 °C, considering that the automated control is programmed in a PLC S7 1200 and TIA Portal v15 for the reading of inputs and outputs, visualization and control is developed through the HMI since it is accessible for data control and visualization of the parameters of each process, this leads to the use of new technologies offered by industry 4.0. On the other hand, this modeling based on the calculated mathematical variables has optimal results in simulation and automated control.