Analysis of Reaction Kinetics of Carton Packaging Pyrolysis

Abstract

The post-consumption carton packaging has been recycled using different process. Pyrolysis can be a promising technology to be used for recovering the aluminum from polyethylene and generating products with high heating value. In this research paper, a kinetic study on pyrolysis reactions was performed in order to estimate the global activation energy using methods of Starink, Kissinger and Kissinger-Akahira-Sunose. Therefore, for both samples of carton packaging and its pure components, dynamic thermogravimetric analyses (TGA) were carried out. The results show that Starink, Kissinger and Kissinger-Akahira-Sunose methods applied to carton packaging, cardboard and polyethylene can be satisfactorily used for estimating the global activation energy and showed similar results between each other.