1. This is P.E.T team, members Shivendra Tewari, Amisha Gautam, Pritesh
Singh and Aditi Nishad.We believe in science 100%.We all belong to
Lucknow,Uttar Pradesh,India. We are the students of Lucknow Public School.
We all love to think, to invent and to ask. Our love towards inventions, new
ideas made us passionate about science and technologies. We started thinking
about such invention which can totally change the world as now "it's our turn to
change the world" and we started thinking of how we can utilize polythene
which is a basic need of our society but harmful to if not been used carefully.
And we finally we came up with an innovative idea of transforming
polyethene into ethanol which is a greener fuel.

2. Polythene is made up of ethene monomer, we can convert
the polymer of ethene into monomer of ethene by the thermal
cracking procedure and then we can convert ethene
gas into ethanol with the hydration process .The novelty of the
invention lies in the combination of two reactions for the
production of clean fuel which has ethanol as its major
component. The byproducts which are lower alkanes are also
potential fuels.

3. First step:- Polythene waste after being cleansed in weak mineral acid and
will go through thermal cracking in an inert environment at about 350o
C-
750o
C and pressure of 90 psi. During this process it will break into different
smaller hydrocarbons. Since the cracking follows a free radical mechanism
therefore it is almost impossible to completely negate the formation of by
products that are hydrocarbons other than ethene.
Second step:- The formed ethene gas will be hydrated in the presence of an
acid catalyst like phosphoric acid. The formed gases will be passed through
a multilayered mesh coated with solid phosphoric acid catalyst inside an
environment of water vapor where ethene will be reacting with water to form
ethanol at 300o
C and pressure of 1024 psi.

4. Step by step procedure(home experiment i.e. without giving required
temperature, pressure and catalyst) :-
1.Washing, cleansing in any mineral acid and shredding of waste polyethene
(collected from our society) was done
2.Then we started heating that cleaned and shredded polyethene(50
grams) into an aluminum container at 120degree Celsius for 30-40 minutes
3.After heating that container in which thermal cracking procedure was taking
place we started heating the 2nd container in which 50 ml of water was there
for 10-15 minutes at 100-110 Degree Celsius for 15 minutes .
4.When the water started to boil we stopped boiling water.
5.All the gases from thermal cracking container and steam from the
2nd
container was coming to the last container and there hydration of ethene
process was taking place .

5. Note:- In place of Nitrogen gas booster nitrogen gas cylinder will be used

7. Note:- All the details are just an approx idea.

8. 1.Ex. President APJ Abdul Kalam praised our project when he came in NCSC
State Level Competition held in Sagar Institute Of Technology,Barabanki .
2.We have also filed Provisional Patent(Application No.:- 1293/DEL/2012).
3.Nominated for "National Awards of Petrochemicals and Downstreams of
Plastics industry"
4.Project reports published in many newspapers and magazines(Dainik
Jagran,Swatantra Bharat,Hindustan,Pratyogita Darpan,Sahara Samay,Times of
India.)
5. It is one of the winning projects out of the 20 projects selected in
NCSC(National Children's Science Congress).
6. Winner in our category in IITK's Techkriti soccon competition.
7.Winner in Bhim Rao Ambedkar University,Lucknow

9. Name :-Shivendra Tewari and team.
Phone no:- +91-7376598475,+91-8604400560,+91-9532099500
Email id:- ami456.cool@gmail.com
Address:- L-1336 Sector-I LDA Cololny,Kanpur Road
Lucknow,226012