In a major record-breaking feat that has set the pace for others to follow, a final year female student of the Department of Chemistry Federal University Dutse, Zainab Bilyamin has converted sachet water waste to hybrid fuel (kerosene and diesel) as her final year project.
Bilyamin research project is titled “Conversion of low-density polyethylene and mixed low-density polyethylene with polyethylene terephthalate into fuel”.
Multiple reports have it that the final result shows that the hybrid fuel produced from the pure water waste products has similar properties as normal kerosene and diesel as it was used to light up a kerosene lamp and power a pumping machine successfully.
NCNC also gathered that the fuel can be used to power a generator to produce electricity.
Harping on the feat, the history making Bilyamin said she was motivated to carry out the research after reading about possibility of converting polymeric waste into fuel because in Nigeria polymeric waste keep piling up the street without recycling, which poses environmental hazard whereas this waste can be converted to wealth.
Speaking on the development, Bilyamin’s research supervisor, Aminu Dauda, averred that he quickly key into the project when Bilyamin brought the idea because combating the menace of polymeric waste pollution has become a global challenge, despite the fact that recycling rates are comparatively low, and this has lead polymeric waste pollution more than ever.
Dauda continued that the research method used in the research is a normal process of Thermal cracking method where the waste was subjected to high temperature of about 450-500 °C which causes the breakage of the molecular bonds and breaking down long chained, higher boiling hydrocarbons into shorter chained, lower boiling hydrocarbons in the absence of oxygen.
The supervisor noted that in the course of the research, they had to design and fabricate a machine (reactor) at the Kano Technology Incubation Centre which was used for the pyrolysis — the method used to convert the polymeric waste into fuel.
The Jigawa State record breaking indigene said she would pursue a career in academia as she want to carry the research further in her Masters and PhD program.
In her words, the research gulped more than N100,000 (about $150). In their remark, Bilyamin and her supervisor urged the government to invest in this area of research as it will ease the blockage caused by polymeric waste and at the same time serve as a source of revenue to the government and also means of reducing youth restiveness.
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