Northwestern chemists unveil a nickel catalyst that makes recycling stubborn plastics easier and more efficient.

Using a catalyst Vanadium (V) oxide, V 2 O 5, is the catalyst used in the Contact process. It helps to achieve an acceptable yield in an acceptable time.

Researchers from Osaka City University and Tohoko University, Japan, claim to have used a novel catalyst process to recycle plastic waste at ‘significantly lower’ temperatures.

A catalyst alters the rate of a reaction, allowing it to be done at a lower temperature. Catalysts are therefore used in the chemical industry to make manufacturing processes more economical.

The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less complicated, frustrating and tedious. In a new study, Northwestern ...

Refiners will find that their choices of process technologies and catalysts will determine their ability to produce ultra-low sulfur (30 ppm) gasoline and diesel.