Project number
27044
Organization
Tank's Green Stuff
Offering
ENGR498-F2026-S2027
What if yesterday's plastic waste became tomorrow's fuel?
This project will design, build, and demonstrate a working pyrolysis reactor prototype capable of converting shredded plastic waste into separated liquid fuel products and recoverable process gases. The student team will develop the reactor, heating system, condensation train, fuel collection tanks, controls, and safety systems required to prove the process at prototype scale.
The final demonstration must show continuous conversion of representative plastic waste into usable fuel fractions, document product yields and operating performance, and identify the engineering requirements for scale-up.
The goal is not only to prove that waste plastic can be transformed into valuable products, but to establish a practical pathway from a university prototype to a deployable commercial system.
This project will design, build, and demonstrate a working pyrolysis reactor prototype capable of converting shredded plastic waste into separated liquid fuel products and recoverable process gases. The student team will develop the reactor, heating system, condensation train, fuel collection tanks, controls, and safety systems required to prove the process at prototype scale.
The final demonstration must show continuous conversion of representative plastic waste into usable fuel fractions, document product yields and operating performance, and identify the engineering requirements for scale-up.
The goal is not only to prove that waste plastic can be transformed into valuable products, but to establish a practical pathway from a university prototype to a deployable commercial system.