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Also I'd imagine you'd need a pretty consistent standard of recycled plastic and it would need to be melted into pellets that could be fed from a hopper. You're talking about 'cracking' the long organic chains into liquid fuel, preferably in one heat-driven step, yes?
Might work on a large vehicle like a artic (semi) where weight isn't so much of an overhead and there's lots of heat to play with.
How about gasifying the waste (from pellets) then using the product gas and adding this to the intake (a bit like a wood-gas generator, but with a denser fuel-stock). What reaction would occur if the plastic was reacted in a stream of superheated steam?
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