How does My Plastic into Fuel Reactor Work? + 1st Analysis Run! HDPE Only

[@FornasaOG]

You should make a video of collecting plastic garbage waste from water sources like rivers, ponds, or beaches or something. From there turn that into Plastoline and post that video showing how we could collect the waste from the oceans and turn that into something useful. I'd love to even help do this too!

[@naturejab]

Send me an email let us connect [e-mail]

[@dwb2518]

Someone is already doing that. What would be great if the tltwo could collaborate 😊

[@rh380]

Try all types of plastic.. And mix it up.

[@MissAuntie]

Brilliance! Much like extracting water from air - because water is already part of air's components...only WAYYYY more complicated! Awesome 👍

[@Tycoonlessons]

My 3 yo son is watching this video with me before bed time and he seems to be following along with everything. He’s VERY excited about what you’re doing. I had a passion for science and chemistry at one time but I didn’t see anyone like us doing it. I’m glad my son can grow up in a world seeing this at his age. I don’t have to state the obvious of how revolutionary what you’re doing is - I’d just like to tell you a different way your impact is affective. Keep going 🫡

[@naturejab]

@@Tycoonlessons blessings to you and your son! Thank you for watching inspiring me to keep going 🙏

[@BigWalka]

This is so cool! I am proud and inspired by this guy. I wish him all the success in the world.

[@galacticmarine663]

I'm commenting to get the algorithm on your side. I love what you do

[@tThisNThat]

YEP

[@tThisNThat]

BUMP!

[@Keyboardwizard15]

^

[@swsuwave]

Ya know, the yT algorithm is racist - while signed into my YT acct, I was random searching and saw a brother's home made turbine channel, i liked it just cuz it was cool, and suddenly I get this huge influx of people to my tiny channel (@uwave), which isn't that big, and they're 98% black. Funny they didn't come over to my channel before I liked that other (black-skinned) guy's channel.

[@souprememc]

It's inspiring to see such ingenuity, dedication and focus. There's a severe lack of this spirit today, especially in young American culture.

[@cbbrown9724]

Dude look at ur comments ur inspiring all of us. Stay safe bro the world needs more people like u.

[@BigWalka]

Honestly! This is good work. With Much effort and experience.

[@MissAuntie]

This brilliant young man is highly inspirational! He is inspiring me to further progression on my device that keeps electric vehicles and other devices from dying! I pray angels of protection surround this genius and God's blessings be upon him.

[@williamackerson_chemist]

You need to start washing with acetone. It's usually $20-40 per gal, depending on how much you buy. You just use a 3ml disposable dropper to slowly drip it in, collect all the dirty acetone to redistill, and collect the crude back out of it. You can remove excess acetone from the recovered crude by pulling a vacuum and warming to about 30-40°C for a few hours. Scrubbing doesn't remove it, just contaminates brushes. After rinsinf all the visible contamination out, i scrub it with a mixture of 100mL ethanol in 200mL water and 200mL lavender soap to thoroughly clean. Also, steel keck clips are a thing. I keep a bag of each type depending on what temps i work with. You should spend $30 on a 200mm vigreux collumn. Any bigger gets annoying to work with, but theyre better than packed collumns and dont plug as easily. I have 3 with one being 150mm so i can combine for higher purity. It also helps to wrap the collumn in foil to retain heat and slowly ramp up the temperature based on collection rate of no more than 1 drop/sec.

[@naturejab]

Thanks!

[@Caramellogoanna]

Agreed, This video it became clear some sort of Solvent is required for cleaning the pipes and glassware. I'm glad someone knowledgeable can weigh in on the correct solvents to use.

[@hiperson5986]

Acetone is $8 a gallon what are you smoking

[@eligolfs3474]

@@hiperson5986well if you read it you would know that this guy is most likely European considering he is using mm and Celsius. So yes it’s probally more expensive where he is then in America. Also industrial grade acetone is more expensive than the acetone you buy at Home Depot.

[@tov_marshal]

Don’t give up! You are one of the few who really cares!

[@ezcreations777]

The more length and surface area your column has, the more "levels" there are that allow more efficient separation of fractions. This still won't separate azeotropes that water forms with gasoline however. You can entrain the water with ethanol and get a more reliable distillation of the gasoline products you are looking for. And the water should boil off at a lower temperature first, along with the ethanol

[@ezcreations777]

I should also add, this isn't to say use a massively tall column out the gate. The goal is to establish a heat gradient that allows plenty of length for other crap to reflux before spilling over into the condenser. So it's a balance of maximizing this surface area and length and insulation on your column.

[@ali-grizzly]

I don't understand anything but I guess he is fake if his invention was profitable everybody would do that you tell me in 2024 nobody found out thing like this exist?

[@tommymac4098]

great video! I would strongly suggest that you put in an automatic fire extinguisher with a manual override. I wonder what your insurer and neighbors think of this. I really appreciate your clever and educated skills in your endeavors. Quite impressive! Having worked with vacuum furnaces, you should probably have a vacuum control valve between your pump and your condenser. This is common in MIM furnaces.

[@KalebandPups3DShop]

only 8k view shows how smart people really are keep up this amazing research and work

[@noesmucho414]

imma need the bloods, the crips, the mob, the hells angels, the yakuza to PROTECT THIS MAN AT ALL COSTS

[@theguybehindyou694]

You are so much smarter than I am. I can understand the concept of what you're doing, but actually building something like that is amazing. In the apocalypse, you're going to be so set. I don't know if it works with what you're doing, but a reflux still, or anything with a bubble plate might work better. I know a lot about distilling alcohol, because of misspent youth, you might be able to find techniques you can use in your field.

[@nedkent5239]

Great work dude! You have a brilliant mind!

[@timellis9293]

I understood about 11% of what you said but am 100% sure you are a genius. Stay safe man.

[@mapo5976]

Intriguing process. Hand held Potato cam . I can't believe this is not being used all over the world on a small scale like this.

[@Rasmustheforest]

its because it costs more fuel than it creates. its simple, this is not new tech, this has been around for 50 years. its just not efficient.

[@JaayCeez]

@@Rasmustheforest Exactly, but I believe he is trying to make it for it to be efficient enough. Which is why we are in this journey. More power to him! People like him are often overlooked or said to be crazy until the breakthrough comes.

[@trevorbyers4102]

❤ brilliant man. Gratitude. Stay protected

[@dawsonbertrand8297]

The stuff you are doing is so cool man. Im so excited to follow your journey! Inspiring!

[@davidkelley8541]

I've been pondering a few days, I think I got an idea for chopping plastic: you could set an auger on a cradle that sets it's point into the processing bin. Then in the bin; little tine blades. As the auger brings plastic up as A screw lift of sorts the tines will catch and cut the plastic. Ripping it to bits as it spits plastic out the top of the bin...

[@skreeeeebs]

just a suggestion, for cleaning maybe isopropyl alcohol might help with getting the crude oil out.

[@joashbergman5477]

The longer the distillation column and the more amount of packing material that you use, the more theoretical plates you introduce and the more pure your distillate will be. The theoretical plates in the column should condense the majority of the vapors, allowing only the vapors with the lowest boiling point through. Steel wool is a good packing to use, but based on the experiments I have seen up at Michigan Tech, glass beads generally offer more plates per a given volume. Glass beads are also much more consistent since you are not having to pack them in. With steel wool, if you do not pack tightly enough, you end up with very few theoretical plates. But, if you pack it too tightly, you end up plugging the distillation column or really dragging out the distillation time. But, long story short, YES, a taller packing column is necessary as it will provide a purer distillate. If you use a very short column, you are essentially just doing a simple distillation which will only separate liquids with significant gap in boiling points. I went over this unit in the Organic Chemistry lab several weeks back. We were separating ethyl and butyl acetate with fractional distillation and had to learn the how and the why of the system.

[@bringtheideas460]

You should insulate the keg and make the reflux go to another collection wessel. That way some of the oil would be further thermally cracked into lighter molecules. And your keg would only collect the heaviest thick tars.

[@devinharp636]

This is absolutely impressive.. much respect to you as you chase your dreams

[@Vandivervida]

You are brilliant! Never stop improving this system! I’m cheering for you from Costa Rica!

[@LosSociosDelFuturo]

Thank you for the tour of your *palacio*.

[@de0509]

At my place we use Solvent K (kerosene?) to clean sludge out. Its really efficient at doing it. Just a nice weight to not dry out like gasoline does, but its light enough to just dissolve muck like magic. And once cleaned, the kerosene dries out easily. You can use soap after to clean those lab equipment even more. And since you have a distiller I think you can keep regenerating that solvent too and leave behind the muck to send to someone else who can dispose it more properly.

[@DD-qy2ou]

I watched an entire commercial without hitting skip to generate a little more royalties for you… you deserve it lol

[@countrymorgan2942]

Same, if I enjoy the content, commenting and not skipping ads is the easiest thing I can do to support their work is boost the algorithm.

[@DD-qy2ou]

@ yea it took me making a google Adsense account to learn how this works years and years ago to monetize my instrumentals on KZbin…(I got suspended for having people click on it multiple times and doing it myself 🤦‍♂️ 😂)

[@terischannel]

I built a plastic shredder using a garage door opener as the motor and I welded used circular saw blades to two shafts and ran a belt around everything. It worked pretty well for several years.

[@shizlittlebam]

There are small gas turnines available for home use that produce electricity off lpg. With one of those, you can power your own operation indefinitely.

[@Thomas-Almanza]

Many thanks for sharing all your knowledge and being an inspiration for me to go above and beyond with my own projects. If the Atlantic wasnt between us I'd love to come check your build out. Love from the Netherlands.

[@jakewhitt9612]

Came from Facebook Reels. I fully support this!

[@ViTALMaTThews]

Play sand from the hardware store would be an excellent and inexpensive fire extinguisher in this scenario Keep up the good work! Nice innovation!

[@rileybyrne-m3p]

Both fuels fractions looked a bit heavy just on color, the naphtha should be colorless and the diesel should be yellow to green. Plus the diesel shouldn’t plug at that condenser temperature, but gas oil range material might, depending on the actual temperature. Definitely more susceptible to that kind of carryover when you remove the packing, but with the column design you’re using, the packing efficiency is likely low (too narrow of a column and potentially too tall). For some safety and reliability, it might be worth making a copper still instead of glass so that you don’t have to rely on the plastic clips. Very cool project going here, excited to see what’s next!

[@keeganplayz1875]

You're changing the world here. Humans generate so much plastic waste, therefore converting it back into oil and then into gasoline is good for the environment! Sure, greenhouse gas emissions may be inevitable....but plastic will not decompose in nature for millions of years. I hope this one day becomes as popular as natural oil refinement and that you become sucessful! 😊

[@AtticusG3]

I love that you are doing this, I'd love to see you get some sponsers on board that won't interfere with your creativity and process. Maybe some of those companies that sell the solar/camping/battery gadgets should get on board and power parts of your kit, or the whole thing from Solar and batteries. Assuming your not running her everyday, I imagine you could capture solar for a few days then power a run from that. Otherwise some glass blowers and fabricators that handle this grade of equipment should jump on

[@frankspong8603]

you need to create a greater contact area for your heating mantle and flask while distilling to reach high enough temperatures for reliably to fractionate diesel and also I'd suggest using smaller anti bumping granules as only the rough edges of the glass shards act as efficient nucleation points and larger fragments have more smooth surface to total surface area ratio.

[@erstwhile6163]

Fascinating stuff -please keep up the good work.

[@jamespommier]

Keep up the great work brother! You're a brilliant man.

[@proffesordickfacejr.4886]

This is awesome. Gives me hope for the new generation... Just be careful sir.... Keep up the awesomeness..

[@RespecDName]

“When I got burnt, I burned the black off my black ass. This is the equivalent of doing that” def needs to be written into the textbook right next to “it’s not a bong” and “did he make oil??” 💀

[@RichardHubbuck]

Mate, this is fantastic - inspiring stuff!

[@Khmtravelvlog]

An upgrade to The distillation process might would help I would probably wait until I had a barrel full before distilling.

[@danear2]

This wax is a real problem... Maybe start to use catalyst 🤔 Julian can you put a short video on your gauges pressure and temperature and how you connected them to the computer..?🙏🏼

[@incredible5587]

Idea, when you revamp your machine you can make it so it leans back and have be able to load up more. I wonder what else would work in here, i got ideas, one would be diapers, but also rubber from shoes and boots and I can do on and on. Even leaves.

[@jk743]

If you'd combine that with a powerplant that burns plastic to generate electricty you'd get the oil for free and at the same time reduce plastic pollution (Assuming you could filter the vapors cheaply)

[@tpzoso]

The cost of electricity to produce a barrel of oil from pyrolysis is approximately $80 when utilizing microwave or other resistance-based heat sources. For this process to become economically viable, it is important to reduce the required heat input by pulling and maintaining a vacuum, as well as using heat transfer fluids like ammonia or carbon dioxide instead of traditional resistance-based heating. However, even with these adjustments, the oil produced will not meet standards for refining and will not be suitable for processing in plants optimized for heavy or light crude oil. To enhance the economic viability of the process, maybe you could convert the oil to hydrogen. You would need to incorporate steam and a nickel-based catalyst. This approach leads to the production of hydrogen gas, carbon soot, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide. Achieving this requires temperatures exceeding 600°C. While it is theoretically possible to reduce the required temperature for steam pyrolysis by maintaining a vacuum, this presents significant challenges. It involves complex calculations and precise measurements to calibrate the system for efficiency, along with the necessity of specialized components. Best of luck

[@tpzoso]

Just saw that you are already using vacuum. Nice 👍 . With a vacuum, you can achieve effective pyrolysis at around 600°C instead of needing 800°C. By utilizing a more efficient heat source, such as an industrial heat pump, you could significantly reduce the energy required to heat the reactor to 300°C. It's estimated that this method would consume less than one-third of the energy compared to a microwave for reaching that temperature. While microwaves may still be effective for achieving temperatures up to 600°C, overall, you could potentially save around 30% of the energy, based on observations of the reactor's performance. Another significant concern is the release of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and other corrosive compounds. Implementing a catalytic process will be essential to effectively remove these harmful byproducts from the final output. Ultimately, producing hydrogen (H₂) seems to be the most promising approach. The gas exiting the reactor is already at a high temperature, requiring minimal additional energy for conversion. Additionally, this process could be integrated as a solution to manage NOx and corrosive compounds, enhancing the overall efficiency and environmental performance of the system.

[@johnhancock636]

Btw OG HDPE and LLDPE are the same thing, and LLDPE would be easier to break apart with microwaves, and would likely be more useful for efficiency, I only know because I used to work with plastics

[@RealfishingNL]

Hey. Are u not worried that all that scratching from the worm over time would cause parts from the camber to get thinner and could cause a implotion? Maby always wear your goggles and fire protection when u go near it when its on. Stay safe and keep going 👍👍👍

[@munoxmi3909]

im jealous because ive thought about this, youre doing a great job i am very impressed i hope you keep it up and keep learning about safety just as much

[@RespecDName]

Also as far as cleaning the glassware, try rubbing alcohol. Learned that from cleaning the bong in high school lol

[@olebrumm1995]

It’s very important that you reach a positive Q-value, or this is meaningless. I’d recommend getting a glassblower to make you a Vigreux fractional distillation column with as many ports as possible; they need to be angled at a very slight angle upwards. The distillation vessel should be a stainless steel vessel instead of glass, submerging it in a high-temperature fluid to give you greater temperature control. Also, I’d recommend taking the fluid intermittently, but almost directly, from the collection pot in the magnetron machine to the distillation pot to minimize heat loss and lower your total energy input. Also, recommend insulating everything as much as humanly possible.

[@olebrumm1995]

also is it really nassecary to use a magnetron? can't you just heat the plastic up normaly to break it down? a magnatron is only around 65% efficient and a heating coil is around 100% efficient

[@poshweevil2960]

When you're working with temperatures that high. Don't worry about using water. In the condenser air is enough

[@Tj44152]

May the algorithm be with you ⛽️

[@QUANT_Trader88]

Amazing how much stuff he knows I'm confused watching this 😅

[@countrymorgan2942]

Just found your channel and truly intrigued. Perhaps attach a large balloon to act as a buffer to contain? I know water to vapor is like 1600:1, perhaps a separate leg with a manifold of balloons? Enjoyed the vid, look forward to checking out prior vids. Happy Holidays

[@tenfodaddy4351]

Thanks!

[@naturejab]

Thank you!

[@EMPRESS_ERA]

Brother you are amazing. Your passion, your knowledge, I’m in love. Immediate subscriber, can’t wait to see what you do! ❤❤🎉

[@shaneintegra]

18:22 i legit just woke up everyone in my house laughing 🤣

[@jazzophis]

Watching how fast your auger pulled in the plastics just as you were loading made me think you probably have some uncooked plastics on both ends. I would put a small amount in and then time how long it takes for the first bits of it to reach the other end. Especially since this is a new auger. Once the plastic hits the end you can no longer move it back the other way so I'd take like 30 seconds to a minute off that time and then see if you can set up your computer to continually run and switch directions to keep it moving. Then you probably would only need like the 3 or 4 center microwaves running.

[@yugbe]

Question: During the process, and understand that I am no chemist by any means, is there a possibility of any air or o2 being mixed in with the natural gas in the final stages? Is that part of the scrubbing process by the filters? Thank you for your videos and efforts, I am trying to better understand chemistry myself, but am very young in the process.

[@DrZoidbergism]

Aww you are the best. Such an interesting project and funny jokes

[@MarkHill45]

Dear genius, buy a shear. No more scissors. No more high maintenance shredders. Button or foot pedal accuated shear.

[@hiperson5986]

Dear genius, your logic is non-existent, a shear would not make this any easier then a normal shredder, in fact it would actually make it harder. Dumb ass.

[@joshmaxon7026]

I don’t know if this is real or not, but either way this man is genius.

[@charlesbrugger9103]

How about using those large flat plastic magnifying sheets and the sun to produce heat. Pretty simple to make automatic moving for the movement of the sun.

[@patrick2t724]

We all need a machine like that at home. Enough plastic to go 'round

[@012jebaited]

That distiller was setting you back, get a new one.

[@kwaminax]

You should connect with “Mount Baker Mining and Metal” about a shredder. Also the Great Ocean Clean-Up

[@itsausername]

I can honestly say I'm pleasantly surprised how much work and research you've put into this. But I'll be honest the youtube shorts do kind of make you look like an insane backyard meth cook. The long form videos do you much more justice.

[@sabo6729]

Is this gonna lead to a hands off nonstop from plastic to separated fuels and gas?

[@tonywalker8030]

Can you try not using a vacuum and do a comparison test ?

[@benedykt123313]

If it's not under a vacuum, it's not pyrolysis. The literal term pyrolysis mean burning in an oxygen free environment.

[@LiquidSnek]

Thanks Ryan Sheckler!

[@tThisNThat]

Not for nothing dude...it's EVERYTHING!

[@Psychohexane]

Flask should be an appropriate size for the heating mantle and vice versa.

[@Shimmy32]

This is amazing! It would be awesome to see you collab with NileRed. Change the world bro💪

[@Rasmustheforest]

im pretty sure Nile red knows that this dude is a scammer (either on purpose or by mistake) but this technology has no potential of getting good enough to create more power than it expends. meaning he uses more fuel to make less fuel.

[@randysmith7094]

16:49 - looks like it says 'crude hope'. 22KWh would have cost me nearly $3 in power alone. Which doesn't sound like much but it doesn't look like it produced much...

[@cahdoge]

Yeah, economically speaking, fule from plastic pyrolysis is even worse, than biofules.

[@MrInternationalSound]

Keep up the great work 🤝🏾‼️

[@skillsforlife668]

Did you make really perfectum chamber that Big or Is It Just een smaller department where the concentrate is going

[@Jekktarr]

do you fuel the machine with the captured natural gas for (free-ish) fuel?

[@Mike-rd1lc]

What is the point of using a separator funnel if you aren’t going to collect each layer in a separate container?

[@davidJrBoyd]

For the distillation part can you use water to régulateur the process

[@toxxicdutchie232]

Yo this was a bit of a pain for me to find, but man its exactly what I'm looking for. I've came up wtih this idea on my own with lots of research and am looking at ways it can be done. If you're willing and able to I'd love pointers on what I should be doing. For instance I didn't even know microwave pyrolysis was an option and I was looking at thermal pyrolysis in an oxygenless environment. Amy pros/cons of using this system instead?

[@g3tphukcedgoogl3]

You gained a subscriber!

[@de0509]

I bet a few more cylinders would be a great addition to the operation. Good that excess gases are flared instead of just vented out. But for this scale operation, I think its a low hanging fruit to avoid either flaring or venting

[@naturejab]

Yea I almost never flare! All my tanks were unfortunately full I will be getting bigger tanks soon hopefully

[@hellacooook]

Is it safe to breathe those fumes , I’m guessing most likely no

[@hemlocksalad5383]

No. There's a mass spectrograph analysis of his plastolene and oil on KZbin which show that it's made of styrene monomer which is a nasty chemical.

[@smokedubs]

Very cool makes me want to join a local Chem club

[@Rice-c3i]

Great video man❤

[@auroraborayelisR2D2]

Loving it!

[@garagebuilt4290]

You should open source everything to protect yourself.

[@tposeuntilww3153]

You would like that, wouldn’t you…..

[@clutch2315]

Man youre awesome! Keep this up!

[@SuperFlyGuy9000]

Very brilliant!

[@applepoop10]

How this guy doesn’t have a Ph.D yet is beyond me. His intelligence is off the charts. 💪

[@anonymouse-f4z]

Do you use the natural gas to generate the electricity consumed?

[@benedykt123313]

It's not natural gas.

[@anonymouse-f4z]

​@@benedykt123313I thought he said methane which is the majority component of natural gas.

[@herausragend6514]

great video!

[@Stilzfishin]

Badass man !

[@delcorider]

Can you do this with rubber tires?

[@ukmayhemproductions]

i aint no crack head i maybe smoking them plastic fumes but no crack omg bro im fucking dying i had to play it twice

[@AustinHerrig]

Someone needs to hook this guy up with the sketchy scientist corner of youtube. NileRed, Action Labs, Backyard Scientist, ect.

[@LevonKnoxJr]

Would you eventually get a machine that's made perfectly with all the right measurements and patents that work perfectly once you know what works best. For everything.

[@bungyst]

How much electricity is needed to make one liter/galon of diesel?

[@peterphoomahaljr1557]

absolute genius.