A Gaza resident has built a high-tech plant from basic equipment to turn used plastic remains to its origin; fuel.
It took Ibrahim Soboh, 55, from the Nusairat refugee camp in the centre of the Gaza Strip, seven months to build and perfect the plant.
Israel's siege on the Gaza Strip lead to many essential goods running out, pushing the residents to Gaza to invent new machines with basic equipment to try to find alternatives.
Soboh refused to disclose the secret of his invention but said the idea came to his mind as he knows that plastic is made of fuel and plastic remains, which used to be exported to Egypt through tunnels, are accumulating in huge amounts.
In his plant, Soboh melts plastic by heating it until it becomes vapour. The vapour is condensed in the same machine and becomes fuel.
According to Soboh, every 1.5 kilogrammes of ground plastic gives one litre of fuel. The new fuel is used to run electricity generators, cars and other machines which operate on oil.
The next stage for Soboh is to search for donors to set up a big plant to be able to reuse tonnes of plastic remains accumulated in large stores in the Strip. He believes this will solve two problems; it encourages plastic recycling and finds a way to help with the fuel crisis.
Necessity is the mother of invention
Re: Gaza resident builds plant that returns plastic to fuel
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 10:12 am
by particle-jim
damn, that's impressive
Re: Gaza resident builds plant that returns plastic to fuel
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 10:20 am
by rockonin
Thats impressisve.........
But not as imppressive as the the piano necktie
Re: Gaza resident builds plant that returns plastic to fuel
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 10:24 am
by apmje
He looks good for 55.
Gaza diet.
Re: Gaza resident builds plant that returns plastic to fuel
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 10:28 am
by m8son666
Re: Gaza resident builds plant that returns plastic to fuel
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 11:35 am
by jrkhnds
I call bs
if true, bp & shell will have his head on a plate in 5 days.
Re: Gaza resident builds plant that returns plastic to fuel
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 11:46 am
by Samuel_L_Damnson
nah it seems legit. i hope it is. its a genius idea.
Re: Gaza resident builds plant that returns plastic to fuel
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 11:48 am
by m8son666
Yeah is legit imo, by burning the plastic the polymers involved will be broken down into smaller hydrocarbons which can be used as fuel. Don't really see how this is anything groundbreaking though, pretty simple science, but fair play to this geeza obviously gaza ain't the most accommodating environment for science lol.
Re: Gaza resident builds plant that returns plastic to fuel
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 11:56 am
by wolf89
I read this as Gazza builds plant that returns plastic to fuel at first.
Re: Gaza resident builds plant that returns plastic to fuel
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 12:23 pm
by test_recordings
Sick I'd invest in that shit
Re: Gaza resident builds plant that returns plastic to fuel
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 12:24 pm
by jrkhnds
test recordings wrote:Sick I'd invest in that shit
sorry to tell you but your heads probably next.
was a pleasure
Re: Gaza resident builds plant that returns plastic to fuel
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 12:29 pm
by Genevieve
This will either be legislated away or a major oil company will buy the patent.
Re: Gaza resident builds plant that returns plastic to fuel
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 12:36 pm
by Forum
I've heard the fumes give you superpowers
Re: Gaza resident builds plant that returns plastic to fuel
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 3:14 pm
by test_recordings
Jurkhands wrote:
test recordings wrote:Sick I'd invest in that shit
sorry to tell you but your heads probably next.
was a pleasure
I honestly have no idea what you're on about there
Re: Gaza resident builds plant that returns plastic to fuel
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 5:28 pm
by kay
If the process works without requiring a net input of energy once you consider a complete lifecycle then it would be a pretty awesome breakthrough. It's one thing to burn plastic into carbon dioxide, it's a whole different ballgame to then react it to form methanol or any other fuel in an energetically favourable way. Although the way the article is written it almost sounds as though they're converting the plastic back into a liquid monomer/polymer/tar and then burning that as fuel, which sounds a bit icky plus having comparatively poor energy content.
Re: Gaza resident builds plant that returns plastic to fuel
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 5:56 pm
by _ronzlo_
Isn't benzene (one of the most carcinogenic substances known to man) released from melting plastic?
Impressive for ad hoc field chemistry? Yes. Something we want everyone to start doing? Probably not.
Re: Gaza resident builds plant that returns plastic to fuel
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 8:58 pm
by nousd
so the Palestinians are drinking this rather than Coke?
probably healthier
