Plastics bring convenience to human life, but also cause serious environmental pollution. The recycling of waste plastics is an effective way to solve the current energy shortage and environmental pollution. Microwave is widely used in the field of waste plastic pyrolysis due to its high heating rate, minimal heat loss, and less pollution in the heating process. In this study, cobalt oxide was used as microwave absorber and catalyst, the hydrogen production characteristics of microwave-assisted pyrolysis of polypropylene (PP) plastic particles were investigated. The results showed that microwave-assisted pyrolysis results in more hydrogen production. The hydrogen volume fraction, hydrogen yield, and hydrogen efficiency all increased continuously with increasing reaction temperature, reaching 68.2 vol%, 28.8 mmol/gPP, and 38.4 % at 850 °C, respectively. With the increase of microwave power and Co3O4/PP mass ratio, the hydrogen volume fraction, hydrogen yield and hydrogen efficiency increased first and then decreased, and they reached the highest value when the microwave power was 500 W and the Co3O4/PP mass ratio was 1 at 850 °C. When the microwave power was greater than 500 W or the Co3O4/PP mass ratio was greater than 1, the heating rate of the polypropylene plastic particles was too high, reducing the selectivity of the Co3O4 for hydrogen production, resulting in lower hydrogen production. The role of Co3O4 in microwave-assisted pyrolysis of plastics is manifested in two aspects. On the one hand, its magnetic loss generates a large amount of thermal energy, providing a high-temperature environment for the pyrolysis of plastics; on the other hand, it adsorbs small molecules of gaseous hydrocarbons and promotes the polarization fracture of the C-H bond to produce hydrogen.
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