Calytic Degradation of Mixed Plastics Using Natural Clinoptilolite Catalyst

Catalytic degradation of the mixture of polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), and polystyrene (PS) was investigated in a semi-batch reactor. The main degradation product was liquid oil with gasoline range carbon number distributions. Clinoptilolite a natural zeolite (HNZ) showed as good a catalytic performance as silica-alumina (SA). The protonated catalysts (HNZ, HZSM-5) showed an increased production of ethylbenzene, but a decrease of styrene production. Increase of degradation temperature resulted in a decrease of ethylbenzene and propylbenzene, but an increase of styrene. Thermogravimetric analysis revealed that the increased degradation rate in the mixed plastics came from the intermolecular carbenium ion transfer between the degraded fragments of PE, PP, and PS.This revised version was published online in December 2005 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Study of Internal Wavelength Locker Integrated 10 Gbps Electro-Absorption Modulated Laser Modules in Metro DWDM Applications

Several different divergences are tested in the several internal wavelength locker schemes for 10 Gbps electro-absorption modulated laser (EML) module. A 10 Gbps EML module with a simple and robust internal wavelength locker for metro dense WDM application is successfully demonstrated. The wavelength aging over 2000 h is done at elevated temperature of 70°C. The average wavelength drift of 10 modules is measured to be ± 5 pm. These modules can be successfully applied to the 10 Gbps DWDM systems with 50 GHz channel spacing.