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by rcshubhadeep 1250 days ago
It is written in one of the pages - "As you look into the data you can understand our machine can produce high grade oil mixture of gasoline, kerosene, diesel oil and little heavy oil. The oil can be used as recycled fuel for electric power generator without refining"

I am no expert, and so I have the question actually. How do we use that oil in reality?

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The obvious answer would be cracking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracking_(chemistry)
Many diesel engines can burn a mix of those (of course, depends on the ratios). Or you can refine it into the pure fuels.

My question is, if it's aimed to power an electricity generator, why not just burn the plastic at a high temperature? (What I imagine there's no answer for, because it's what people actually do. They are probably using the generator only as a display application.)

Distill it into fractions and use the fuel like normal.
oil usually has mixtures of hydrocarbons like this. Refineries use processes like fractional distillation to separate the components so that they can be used separately, or processes like cracking are used which convert longer chain hydrocarbons into simpler hydrocarbons.
Crude oil is much messier than this. Still we refine it just fine :)
It will definitely burn. Diesel heater for water and air is one application.