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.

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.

First step:- Polythene waste after being cleansed in weak mineral acid and will go through thermal cracking  in an inert environment at about 350oC-750oC 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 300oC and pressure of 1024 psi.

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 minutes3.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 .

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

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

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

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