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Pastimes : Plastics to Oil - Pyrolysis and Secret Catalysts and Alterna
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From: donpat4/26/2018 9:01:51 AM
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First-of-its-kind PS recycling facility now operational

by Jared Paben

A ribbon-cutting ceremony last week at the Agilyx plant in Oregon drew a mix of business and government representatives, including one major PS producer who said the technology could help stem consumer backlash against foam plastics.

"So the pyrolysis process could be easily shifted to this application?

It takes a modification of our plant. We have a design and will be going into fabrication probably in the next few weeks. And then we’ll take out the modules that are critical for making plastics-to-oil and we’ll put in a module that is capable of taking the pyrolysis gases and converting it into the styrene monomer.

How exactly do you go from pyrolysis to new plastic product?

Once you get the pyrolysis gases, then you can quench them and separate them into a styrene monomer. That product is a liquid chemical product that can then be moved to a refiner who is making the polystyrene products. It blends right in. It’s part of the circular economy of styrene, where the styrene is collected from a materials recovery facility, it comes to us where it would be converted through pyrolysis and then the stream would be purified and sent to companies that are making products like cups or plates or trays."

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