6.5 Industrial Application Examples of Waste Plastics Conversion Technologies
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Table 6.4
Industrial application examples of liquid fuel production from waste plastics
Company
Location
Feedstock
Conversion method
Capacity
Main product
Yield (wt%)
Refs.
Shonan Trading
Co.
Japan
Thermoplastics waste
excluding
chlorine-containing
plastics
Pyrolysis
Up to 1000 kg/batch
Hydrocarbon oil
80
[35]
Mogami-kiko
Co.
Japan
Thermoplastics waste Pyrolysis
1.5 t per day per reactor Hydrocarbon oil
50–90
[35]
MCC Co.
Japan
Thermoplastics waste
excluding
chlorine-containing
plastics
Pyrolysis
Up to 200 kg/h
Hydrocarbon oil
N/A
[35]
Altis Co.
Japan
Mainly mixed
plastics
Pyrolysis
N/A
Hydrocarbon oil
N/A
[35]
Kankyo
Technology Co.
Japan
Thermoplastics waste
(excluding
chlorine-containing
plastics)
Pyrolysis
Up to 2770 kg/day
Hydrocarbon oil
80
[35]
Anhui Oursun
Environmental
Technologies
China
PPE, PE, PET,
HDPE, LDPE, PP
and PS
Microwave heating
8000 t/year
Diesel fuel, crude oil 85
[13]
Envion Co.
USA
Waste plastics from
MRFs
Far-infrared heating
10,000 t/year
Crude oil
70
[13]
GEEP
Canada
Plastics from
electronics
Conventional pyrolysis 6000 t/year
Diesel fuel
75
[13]
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