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A stream of “relatively clean mixed plastics” would be an ideal and relatively easy waste stream to process for a Synfuels plastics WTE facility. Synfuel’s plastics WTE facilities will be able to process any type of plastic waste stream, whether it is a single stream or mixed stream of PET/PETE, HDPE, LDPE, PVC, PP, PS and/or miscellaneous types of plastics (including PC, acrylic, nylon, styrene,
etc.).
Unlike competing plastics recycling and WTE technologies, Synfuels’ plastics WTE facilities will be able to process ALL types of plastics waste whether it is in bulk or in baled form, including mixed, unsorted and other plastics that cannot be recycled by any existing technologies, including plastic that is dirty and/or is contaminated with food or other organic materials.
Moreover, Synfuels’ plastics WTE facilities will also be able to process all 11 types of plastics bales sold on the secondary resale market in the United States (and abroad), including the higher-cost and more “recyclable” PET, natural HDPE, color HDPE, and HPPE rigid plastic bales; as well as the much-lower cost and highly-landfilled plastic bales of comingled grades 1-7, comingled grades 3-7, mixed bulky rigid, post-consumer film grades A, B and C. Our standard recommendation is to first target the lower-cost bales/plastics as doing so addresses a growing market demand and generates higher returns.
Our standard plastics WTE facilities are designed to process a mixed stream of relatively clean plastics, including PVC waste, which can also included “dirty/contaminated plastics” that have some food or organic waste attached. However, said design can be easily modified (in most cases with negligible to minor impact on CAPEX) to further optimize output for a single stream of plastics and/or if the waste stream will frequently have plastics that are “dirtier” in terms of being contaminated with higher amounts of food or other organic waste streams.
If, for example, a facility primarily designed to process plastics other than PVC (i.e. #3 plastics) ends up processing some PVC waste that should not be a problem or affect output as long as the PVC content is less than 10 percent.
If the waste stream is projected to have 10 percent or more of PVC waste, Synfuels will design the facility to be able to readily process said PVC waste by neutralizing the hydrochloride acid, which could be accomplished with CaCO2 or CaOH. The additional end product of neutralizing the hydrochloride acid would be CaCl which could be sold as road salt.
The output of Synfuels’ plastics WTE facilities that process mixed plastics waste will be relatively consistent with the input/output data.
Our input/output table provides information on the performance for a 25-TPD, 100-TPD and 200-TPD plastic WTE facilities which is based on testing that Synfuels did using mixed plastics which was slightly “contaminated.” In short, irrespective of the type of plastics waste processed, Synfuels’ plastics WTE facilities will produce:
1. LIQUID FUEL- is the most important output of a Synfuels plastics WTE facility (in terms of product volume/weight and revenues) will be a liquid fuel product. Every 100 tons of mixed plastics processed will produce about 433 barrels (bbls) of liquid fuel. The liquid fuel produced by Synfuel’s plastic WTE facilities will be in great demand as it can be readily sold almost anywhere given the fact it can meet the world’s most stringent diesel fuel requirements.
The liquid fuel produced by Synfuels’ WTE facilities will be ideally suited for use in any diesel fuel mixes, including for use in vehicles in the United States (including California), Europe and elsewhere.
The liquid fuel will have an API in the 35 to 45 range with a sulfur content of around 2.3 parts per million (ppm). This is six times lower than the EPA’s ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD) and California’s Air Resources Board (CARB) 15 ppm requirements for diesel fuel used in on-road (highway) and on road, locomotives, and marine (NRLM) vehicles, vessels and equipment.
The exact API and sulfur content of the liquid fuel will vary slightly depending on the composition of the plastics feedstock processed. However, our testing of a variety of plastics repeatedly yielded APIs in the 35- to 45- range, and sulfur content of less than 3 ppm, which is ideally suited for use in diesel fuel mixes.
2. METALLURGICAL COKE- is the second most important output of a Synfuels plastics WTE facility (in revenues) will be a metallurgical coke product that can be used for a number of purposes, including in the production of iron, steel or other products. The coke can be upgraded to a synthetic graphite.
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