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April 26, 2026RSC Advances0 citationsOpen Access

Transforming plastic waste into liquid fuels: novel upgrading of polypropylene pyrolysis oil and its utilization in a diesel engine

AYAbhishek YadavNational Institute of Technology KarnatakaSMSuparna MaityNational Institute of Technology KarnatakaSYSandeep Kumar YadavNational Institute of Technology Karnataka

Key Points

  • This work aims to develop an efficient upgrading strategy for polypropylene pyrolysis oil to improve its performance as a diesel fuel.
  • Upgrading strategy applied to crude polypropylene pyrolysis oil from end-of-life polypropylene.
  • Combustion performance assessed using upgraded PPO and diesel blends in a diesel engine.
  • Upgraded PPO and diesel blends exhibited promising combustion performance.
  • Emissions from the diesel engine using these blends showed favorable profiles.

Abstract

This work reports an efficient and scalable upgrading strategy of crude polypropylene pyrolysis oil from end-of-life polypropylene. The upgraded PPO and diesel blends showed promising combustion performance and emission profiles in a diesel engine.

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Yadav et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69edabdf4a46254e215b3c29https://doi.org/10.1039/d5ra09026a
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