Review and Design Overview of Plastic Waste-to-Pyrolysis Oil Conversion with Implications on the Energy Transition

Table 2

Physical properties of pyrolysis oil from different plastic wastes [81].

Property	PET	HDPE	PVC	LDPE	PP	PS	Gasoline	Diesel
Calorific value (MJ/kg)	28.2	40.5	21.1	39.5	40.8	43.0	42.5	43.0
Density (g/cm^3 @ 15°C)	0.9	0.89	0.84	0.78	0.86	0.85	0.78	0.807
Viscosity (mm^2/s)	—	5.08	6.36	5.56	4.09	1.4	1.17	1.9–4.1
Flash point (°C)	—	48	40	41	30	26.1	42	52