How To Make Diesel From Plastic | Bang Goes The Theory | Earth Science

[@MarinusMakesStuff]

Just a word of advice, I've worked a LOT with creating 2-component PolyUrethane materials and even though it doesn't smell that strong, it is not a good idea to work without a fume hood or gas mask.

[@nsomniac9288]

Why didn't this go viral it changes everything we thought about what we do with our waste.

[@shadowofmyfutureself]

It doesn't

[@tac7826]

​@@shadowofmyfutureselfWhy?

[@omnitone]

@@shadowofmyfutureselfit's been two years. elaborate.

[@sebbes333]

This is a very good idea... IF you have access to a volcano or some other source of free heat, like a solar farm in Sahara or something.

[@TheJorjj]

+Sion They said the ideal temperature is 350-400 degrees, its not that hard to reach those temperatures.

[@FullTimeHypocrite]

+Largemac but you have to heat the oven with energy you have to get from say burning fuel - if you need more fuel to heat the oven than you can produce - well you get the point

[@TheJorjj]

Google "rocket" it's gonna blow your mind

[@TheHazyshade]

Correct you could probably reach those temperature in a pressure vessel under reflected sunlight off of mirrors in the warmer latitudes of course, where most of earth's population lives.

[@AliA-sb2pd]

We could use Teslas model. They've invested in Solar panels for their Giga Factory in the Nevada Desert. This not only helps power the factory but it also helps Tesla provide free supercharging without really costing the company anything. That is, since they're essentially 'transporting' solar power from a high solar area to superchargers nationwide. Point being, we could have an almost one time investment such as wind power or solar to power the recycling of plastics. With solar panel tech increasing now-a-day, solar panels have a life of 20+ Years so it should be cost effective (The age of panels may be different now, but last time I heard it was 20+ Years).

[@Onebadterran]

All that's left to do is start catching the plastic in the ocean to be used as fuel

[@szymongorczynski7621]

No. The oil industry will simply do anything to stop that fro happening

[@sirpiken]

Szymon Gorczynski The real question is if this is a net energy gain, I have a feeling it took more energy to cook the plastic down then you could get from the fuel it made.

[@szymongorczynski7621]

Sir Piken But the thing is that when we run out of oil this will be the only way we can get petrol and diesel

[@sirpiken]

Szymon Gorczynski When that happens free market innovation will kick in and there will be an energy revolution. This is likely the next big thing in energy it just isn't ready yet. www.graphenea.com/pages/graphene-supercapacitors#.VZGiEFVViko People think batteries are an anwser but they are big slow and full of chemicals. This is the best answer so far but it is a ways off.

[@Onebadterran]

Less about power, more about options. We use oil for just about everything in modern society, one way or another. Granted, there are other options and there will be better options when pressed but for the transitional period the ability to turn oil products back into oil will be sorely needed

[@MasterMint2]

it properly takes too much energy to heat up the plastic compared to the amount of diesel you get out of the process.

[@bryanFDNY]

MasterMint2 exactly what I was thinking as well

[@Pip45]

MasterMint2 well test it

[@JoaoPessoa86]

MasterMint2 In the US they mix alcohol up to a certain percent in gasoline. Maybe they can do the same with this and regular diesel to incorporate some form of plastic recycling into fuel production. Though I'd have liked for them to show what was left of the plastic post distillation and what kind of waste it was.

[@brys555]

MasterMint2 Maybe in the future somebody invent some catalyst which will make the process more efficient? It doesn't have to be individual process. I think mixing few percent of plastic waste with crude oil could be salutary for environment.

[@GrimFaceHunter]

MasterMint2 Look at the comment from +Wayne Johnson and my reply to him. Waste heat can be used.

[@MercedesCitarobusvideos]

You forgot the asbestos insulation on that oven mate

[@xapemanx]

pretty cool and quite elaborate. I like that Polyurethane reaction!

[@0begoo0man0]

dudeeee what are you mixing !! names!! plz?

[@mamashay07]

I think this is amazing although i do wonder if it is more harmful than regular diesel or if it requires more energy to create than its worth in the end however in the future it would be awesome to see recycling plants partnering up with a fuel company to create theyre off brand recycled diesel fuel for low maitenence vehicles

[@tac7826]

Even if it required more energy to produce it than it generates, the value is that it has the potential to drastically reduce plastic littering, the latter being a huge ecological problem.

[@colpugno7]

Finally a solution for plastic waste! 😁

[@kasper2212ify]

Nice to hear some Johnny crash in THE background

[@Fr00stee]

For some reason I thought that the bottle with the plastic mix in the thumbnail was a pepper grinder

[@occipita_ca]

DiamondKnightHD yo, me too... even though ive never seen one that looks like that

[@c4r5on88]

How did they separate the diesel and did you use a catylist?

[@tac7826]

For some reason they decided to not even mention that. Wonder why.

[@wa2k360]

ive gotta be on some sort of list now

[@TOjoe1strow]

This is the kind of mind boggling stuff I was hoping for from this channel thankyou

[@spencerdodds2207]

Mind boggling? Hardly.

[@king_dwarfius7058]

But how much energy dose it take to heat up the oven to vaporize the plastic?

[@MrRishik123]

RedMexican Much more than the diesel produced. But it is an interesting idea.

[@king_dwarfius7058]

Yea but not really effective till we are nearly all renewable, but will cars still use that fuel at that point?

[@MrRishik123]

agreed

[@WayneJohnsonZastil]

RedMexican I think excess heat from furnaces all over the world would melt plastics for fuel. Extra income for metal worker and high temp factories.

[@ViolentKisses87]

RedMexican I don't think he ever implied it was a solution to anything, just merely demonstrating the concept. It certainly takes more energy to create than it produces.

[@TheProfessordank]

what emissions does it give off?

[@genaroalfonga5164]

what are the component to make plastic

[@Chlorate299]

Those old XUD engines will run on any old muck. Brilliant bits of kit.

[@tehPwnzor7306]

Is polyurethane really a common insulation material in the UK? Every home I've seen in America is insulated with fiberglass, either loose or in sheet form.

[@jacktucker3096]

I'm very skeptical of it, but it seems like it would work given the logic. I want to try it out!

[@creedence1819]

How much fuel did you make energy-wise and how much energy did you spend to make the fuel?

[@TheHazyshade]

It could be as little as nothing beyond investment cost if you used wind or solar power to heat the oven. The plastic itself could certainly be collected for free.

[@two_tabz2557]

+Patrick L Rabun they have a field of mirrors in a field in the US somewhere and if it is pointed to a single position it can melt steel, it would be more efficient than solar panels or wind turbines

[@RHelenius]

It's called a solar tower, Spain has some as well AFAIK.

[@thatRyzzle]

This is cool. Although, how much energy was put into making diesel vs. how much energy is stored in the diesel in the end? That would be interesting to know, imho. Still, cool video though.

[@perfectdiversion]

well you can run a diesel engine on used cooking oil. diesel engines can use a number of different fuel sources.

[@Rowow]

Great idea, make crude oil into plastic, and back into crude oil to be burned into CO2. Or just reuse the plastic in its original form... Its far less complicating and uses less energy. Also stop using plastic in one time use items such as packaging/etc for the fact that plastic is far more durable then that

[@Monacosuper]

Question is why are companies not doing this already? Too expensive?

[@TheMisterNg]

Monaco Super I think there are a few arguments against this such as the amount of energy it would take to melt the plastic versus the return of diesel they would be getting. Also, air pollution from melted/heated plastics would be worse for the environment, I think

[@miguelrealp]

Monaco Super To burn the plastic you need more diesel than the amount of diesel you get by burning the plastic

[@CommodoreFan64]

***** That's why we need Bio Diesel made from things like used cooking oil, or corn oil, almost no emissions aside from smelling like a Mexican restaurant, or McDonald's.

[@ministerofpropogandaii5718]

how did it go?

[@jays7948]

I wonder if the exhaust is any worse?

[@MrCheesysmell]

This is amazing!

[@seanmoore1570]

What about the emissions created while burning it for fuel? and what about the byproduct that was created by separating to make it diesel, what becomes of that?

[@Totchvache]

And what about the returning pipe to the tank for the uninjected fuel?

[@TheNimrod43026]

What was the break down of the liquid you collected? Some was diesel, what was the rest?

[@PJDuffield]

Tim Cuff probably some strings of plastic polymers still that didn't get broken down enough

[@ivanrodionov9724]

I am gonna try this for a chem project. Thanks for the good idea!

[@MrNeboff]

Platinum Boi remember to stay safe . The fumes are not good to breath

[@MikhaelAhava]

Well here's the idea, brilliant.

[@abcdefgh1279]

I think there would be a problem to make fuel from scrap plastic for commercial use - fuel companies. They would not even let you customize your engine, so it uses less fuel and creates less pollution, because their enormous profits shrink. If you let a little bit of high pressure steam to the cylinders while the engine is working, you can cut ectremely the fuel consumption.

[@tac7826]

I think car manufacturers might be interested in the face of competition of electric vehicles.

[@wesmatron]

£1 worth of fuel. from £20 worth of electricity

[@spencerdodds2207]

Sounds scientifically founded.

[@dontwhine1]

would it not be better to use it in a gasoline engine if it is not purely diesel?

[@Amy_Dunn]

Am I the only one who's nose a throat stung a little just thinking about all those fumes?

[@wulfarrow2849]

basically a moonshine still

[@2legit2quuit]

how much power did he use to make that?

[@Blue.star1]

plastic is more valuable than diesel or fuels, petroleum is precious , should be used to make important chemicals instead of fuels

[@immort_Draconis]

Sooooo when burning plastic is it not only discouraged but potentially harmful what would be the difference when place in a car that will essentially burn it and release it back into the environment

[@FartingNinjaFrog]

Because after this process, it isn't plastic any more. It's diesel.

[@immort_Draconis]

But chemically unsint still all the same? It was just moved from one container to the other in a sealsed environment of which here come my issue, every think that plastic was was just converted to liquid .. BTW thanks for responding

[@WayneJohnsonZastil]

j stash Erm burning? it's melting and getting the fuel that normal diesel releases!

[@brys555]

j stash Fuel in diesel engine burns under the different circumstances than just light up on free air. Pressure and temperature is much higher so it break more molecules and let them burn into simple CO2 and H2O. Farther - cars often are equipped with catalytic converters and diesel particulate filters.

[@Nighthawkinlight]

j stash It depends on the plastic. Polyethylene contains only carbon and hydrogen molecules so it can be cleanly broken down this way into other hydrocarbons like diesel, but many plastics contain chlorine which will form all sorts of nasty things that are hard to get rid of.

[@allenheilig3737]

that is badass brother

[@NicoSmets]

Can you do the same with the CO2 out of the air?

[@romanfares9864]

How do you purge the air out of your reactor ? Nobody really shows this they just start fires

[@FullTimeHypocrite]

one question: what is the net energy gain here (energy to heat the oven vs energy accessible by burning the fuel)? a negative value maybe? ^^

[@may-bedaisy454]

It doesn’t matter yet. The point is that it’s possible. From this action on, we will finding ways to make it worth (plastic problem for example). Right?

[@Alpha-Alpha]

Unbelievable! So next thing I would like to know is that how much energy is needed to turn it into liquid form? Probably more energy input than the liquid output?

[@deangoddley2061]

Use liquid output being collected gases to be tube back to regenerate flame for the heat.

[@leeisenberg]

Thanks for sharing. Interesting stuff/s. Is anyone doing this Commercially??... That's what I want to know. Take care from TN. - Leeroy

[@olivercasey3530]

A polyfunctional isocyanate + A polyether polyol = Polyurethane

[@MrTanapongs]

what is the name of friendly chemist ?

[@antonhelsgaun]

NICE! now i know why mine turns into a dark clumpy solution

[@krisraps]

This stuiff needs to be learned around the world so everyone will collect the plastic and save the world . imagine if this furnice would make around thge world, damn, i would love the plastic and i would collect it from all the woods and stuff. that may helpo the world to lose all the plastic waste problem

[@Zineeta]

That is very cool

[@krisraps]

All it needs is fre heat, im thinking about vulcano or some kind a solar panels that give out some 400 C so it can run by gain power, not loosing it

[@TheProfessordank]

what about just a solar oven? magnifying glass?

[@TheHazyshade]

If you could get it for free, take the money you save on gas and buy an gas/electric generator and sell that energy to the grid.

[@Doping1234]

I guess burning plastic and using the waste heat to produce electricity is much more enviromentally friendly, efficient and cost effective than this process. Cool demonstration anyway!

[@cbflazaro]

3:42 plastic car rubbing off fuel made of plastic. is that cannibalism?

[@fajarsuryantoro7025]

How much it cost to turn them back into crude oil and turn it into diesel?

[@PlayerPolski]

Now use windfarms to generate electricity to melt plastic, to create fuel :)

[@OnceIWasBooker]

So why isnt this process being done industrially?

[@andromeda8325]

THAT'S amaziiiinnnggg!!! BRUUHHH😲

[@jumptwofall]

That's interesting!

[@onesidedfilms]

***** How much plastic was required to fill the beaker with diesel? also, why doesn't everyone have one of these in their back yard?

[@poligon333]

The energy and resources you need to do this probably costs more then the final product.

[@ThePoptartster]

To my North American English ears "Bang Goes the Theory" sounds like a theory is being destroyed. Does the phrase have a different meaning in British English?

[@PJDuffield]

ThePoptartster i get what you mean but i don't think it really means anything :P it is a really good show though its like one of the only tv shows i watch really

[@ant420]

It's just a title they think of something like making petrol and they try to do it

[@ThePoptartster]

***** Okay, but which theory is banging? The new one, or the outmoded one? And what does the bang mean? Could you define bang as it's used in the context of this phrase? THX

[@2595220]

ThePoptartster you are just derpy and you are talking american not american english theres no such thing you have different words for things like other country's do there's the English language for the country England and there's american language for north america

[@ThePoptartster]

mike walling Nice incoherent run on sentence! I especially loved that you were able to capitalize 2 of the 8 proper nouns you attempted to use! Your boyfriend must be so proud of you, Mike! XD

[@caleblimb3275]

But is this energy efficient? You had to cook your plastic at quite the temperatures.

[@TamunoOpuboCooksCookeyGam]

+Caleb Limb Quite right, very few companies worldwide claim more than 50% yield.

[@bellelavictorie61]

+The Bunny Suit Killer Platinum... that alone is enough to bankrupt most people who want to save money on fuel.

[@thetruthmustbetold6999]

+Caleb Limb you could use a solar reflector to heat the plastic

[@AshishGupta-ql9lq]

but is it economically feasible

[@lostyeti3044]

Neat

[@colewatts8293]

Surely you would only be able to use plastic such as polyethylene, and not plastics like polyvinyl-chloride otherwise you'll end with with chlorine atoms in your carbon chains which is definitely not good.

[@TrustEngineers]

Soooo... why is this amazing and why we don't do it globally for the last 50 years? How much heat for example does the atomic power plant generate that goes to waste? Why not build those ovens there?

[@SuperSilkyJohnson]

Andrew Resler The heat from atomic generators is what produces the electricity, it is not wasted.

[@frosted1030]

So what we have learnt is that you can apply energy to oil and get plastic, and apply a lot more energy to plastic and recover a bit of the oil. Not sure, but it sounds like it takes a lot more energy to make oil out of the plastic... where are you getting all this energy from?

[@Archiekunst]

Isn't John Williams going to chase you for plagiarism seeing as you are using background music from the movie 'The Terminal' ?

[@andrewphillips8341]

Just the thing for the post apocalyptic world!

[@kght222]

you can do it, but it is more efficient and effective to reuse it as plastic.

[@kd1s]

Ah, thermal depolymerization is great stuff.

[@blackbearbear9313]

Did you see the video of a guy on a island making the same thing's

[@miguelrealp]

To burn the plastic you need more diesel than the amount of diesel you get by burning the plastic

[@spencerdodds2207]

There is a gas by product that can be reused to supplement the heating fuel. Many people that run of grid use this system with a small scale plant.

[@9772783]

I still call bull to this. If it really was that easy, fuel companys would have already been doing this to suppliment production, as you dont need any thing more then a refinery... this is the 2nd video on "how this works" and the 1st said that the temp needed to be 800degrees C.

[@Mythtrekker610]

I guess the Mad max films need a little rewrite then to incorporate this. ;)

[@loshan1212]

This was well known for a long time, it's just that it takes a lot of energy to break the polymers (chains) down into single monomers (single molucules) and then filter to only get the useable fuels out.

[@nqkoi159]

Cool. I assume this is too expensive to be used in the real world. Usually these cool things are.

[@0xBADFECE5]

The future of energy needs to be renewable. Fossil fuels should be saved to exclusively make plastics, not the other way around.

[@krisraps]

Emmmmm, why the goverment dont do this stuff?

[@-pyrosef-]

That is why we recycle plastic.

[@shoominati23]

Hiding your number plate cause you've misbehaved on the highway. tisk tisk tisk

[@HUW1097]

Why are we not funding this!?

[@ntyang88]

And you were talking about reducing air pollution 8 days ago... Irony...

[@Blue.star1]

plastic more costlier and important material than diesel

[@ivyedan7183]

We have so much garbage and still relying on the dessert countries for fuel.

[@KieranLeadbetter]

Yey all are stuff has plastic is form diesel

[@jailbreaker1214]

...except diesel doesn't ignite with an open flame.

[@Fists91]

+jailbreaker1214 That's why he said "I can my fuel is too flammable to be pure diesel" and had it fractionated. ;)

[@yumcha16]

+jailbreaker1214 yes it does lol. I use it to start bomb fires

[@davedave4385]

+yumcha16 Bomb fires?

[@25852Dan]

+yumcha16 Bullshit.

[@yumcha16]

Bonfire's*

[@chadhuman982]

0:45 im on the toilet

[@Lucast3]

The problem making more volatile fuels from plastic or wood is always spend energy to produce energy.. But it appears a valid reuse of discarded plastics. Other problem is than mineral oil is still needed for this operation. Excellent experience!

[@Schralenberger]

Good news(maybe) for waste disposal, and fuel production. Bad news for carbon footprint wise.

[@nixryu6483]

how so?

[@Schralenberger]

Besides the other toxic fumes, all burned petroleum products, give off a quantity of carbon into the atmosphere. Plastic, as much so as a liquid petroleum product, or coal, has a carbon content. Both the conversion process, and the use of the reclaim product have a carbon content. As for the other toxic compounds: Arsenic, Cadmium and a host of others. Besides the chemicals (contained in each various polymer), there are also the compounds they form in combustion.

[@eddiemendoza6304]

Polymers are not a plastic. Plastics are a type of Polymers.

[@sliverskater17]

Sadly you probably use more energy converting the plastic to diesel than you get out :(

[@innovationsforall]

Mr Fusion

[@theicedragon100]

but you used more energy to make the diesel then you got out of it.

[@omizzle88]

Why did I only get gas and wax from my polyethylene pyrolysis reaction?

[@Yakito666]

He condensed the gas.

[@Carking97]

Would it be to expensive to produce? If not. This is the future. Recycle plastics for fuel

[@jasminebuala5927]

Omgggg ❤❤❤

[@tiz82]

So if i eat plastic i can run faster than Bolt?

[@drunksanta1427]

+Tiziano Late Blossom try it

[@mauriliosantanafilho2886]

I'm kind of suspicius this video is a fake. I would never lend my car for any kind of experience.