top | item 47138745 (no title) damnesian | 5 days ago OK but can't we please try bioplastics for this? discuss order hn newest LarsAlereon|5 days ago The point is to have a useful way of getting rid of all the plastic waste we already have and will continue to generate. Plastic isn't going anywhere in the near future because it's a byproduct of natural gas production, which is needed for energy. PaulHoule|5 days ago Well... It is more that a traditional oil refinery has a BTX sectionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTX_(chemistry)which produces an excess of chemicals in the process of improving the octane of gasolinehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalytic_reformingand that is where you get monomers like styrene and Terephthalic acid.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethyleneis another important petrochemical feedstock which can be made from natural gas or other forms of petroleum.
LarsAlereon|5 days ago The point is to have a useful way of getting rid of all the plastic waste we already have and will continue to generate. Plastic isn't going anywhere in the near future because it's a byproduct of natural gas production, which is needed for energy. PaulHoule|5 days ago Well... It is more that a traditional oil refinery has a BTX sectionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTX_(chemistry)which produces an excess of chemicals in the process of improving the octane of gasolinehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalytic_reformingand that is where you get monomers like styrene and Terephthalic acid.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethyleneis another important petrochemical feedstock which can be made from natural gas or other forms of petroleum.
PaulHoule|5 days ago Well... It is more that a traditional oil refinery has a BTX sectionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTX_(chemistry)which produces an excess of chemicals in the process of improving the octane of gasolinehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalytic_reformingand that is where you get monomers like styrene and Terephthalic acid.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethyleneis another important petrochemical feedstock which can be made from natural gas or other forms of petroleum.
LarsAlereon|5 days ago
PaulHoule|5 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTX_(chemistry)
which produces an excess of chemicals in the process of improving the octane of gasoline
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalytic_reforming
and that is where you get monomers like styrene and Terephthalic acid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylene
is another important petrochemical feedstock which can be made from natural gas or other forms of petroleum.