PolyCycl launches new technology to recycle single use plastics
PolyCycl, a circular economy technology startup, has launched its patented Contiflow Cracker Generation VI chemical recycling pyrolysis technology.
The fully indigenous innovation addresses India’s escalating plastic waste problem by enabling the conversion of hard-to-recycle plastics —such as single-use grocery bags and food-contaminated packaging— into food-grade polymers, renewable chemicals and sustainable fuels.
The Generation VI technology is protected by multiple international patents.
Contiflow Cracker combines the company’s fully-continuous thermo-chemical pyrolysis process with its proprietary PyOilClean refining technology.
The combination transforms low-grade plastics into liquified hydrocarbon oils, which are then purified to remove contaminants like halogens and hetero-atoms. The resulting chemical feedstocks are versatile raw materials used by the petrochemical and hydrocarbon industries to produce a wide range of premium low-carbon materials, including circular polymers.
Amit Tandon, Founder and CEO, PolyCycl said India generates over 10 million tonnes of plastic waste annually, with over 40 per cent of this being single-use plastics such as grocery bags and flexible packaging. Traditional recycling methods struggle to handle this waste, which often ends up clogging drains, littering streets, or polluting waterways, he said.
PolyCycl’s technology thermally breaks down thin plastics to their molecular building blocks (oligomers), which can then be re-constituted to create new virgin-quality materials, he said.
The technology delivers high conversion yields of 65-75 per cent and generates chemical feedstocks that have been qualified for the circular economy by multiple petrochemical companies globally, he added.
The technology’s patented fully-continuous process architecture provides ease-of-scale and development of modular lines each capable of processing up to 100 tonne per day per line of plastics.
The patented design offers significant cost efficiencies, with capital costs up to one-half to one-fourth of competitive technologies in Europe and the US, while delivering projects EBITDA exceeding 50 per cent.
The fully indigenous innovation addresses India’s escalating plastic waste problem by enabling the conversion of hard-to-recycle plastics —such as single-use grocery bags and food-contaminated packaging— into food-grade polymers, renewable chemicals and sustainable fuels.
The Generation VI technology is protected by multiple international patents and facilitates the creation of a plastic-to-plastic circular economy, where commonly used plastics no longer need to be down-cycled, incinerated or landfilled at the end of their life. Instead, they can be continuously recycled in a closed-loop, without any loss of quality.
Contiflow Cracker combines the company’s fully-continuous thermo-chemical pyrolysis process with its proprietary PyOilClean refining technology.
The combination transforms low-grade plastics into liquified hydrocarbon oils, which are then purified to remove contaminants like halogens and hetero-atoms. The resulting chemical feedstocks are versatile raw materials used by the petrochemical and hydrocarbon industries to produce a wide range of premium low-carbon materials, including circular polymers.
Amit Tandon, Founder and CEO, PolyCycl said India generates over 10 million tonnes of plastic waste annually, with over 40 per cent of this being single-use plastics such as grocery bags and flexible packaging. Traditional recycling methods struggle to handle this waste, which often ends up clogging drains, littering streets, or polluting waterways, he said.
“PolyCycl’s technology thermally breaks down thin plastics to their molecular building blocks (oligomers), which can then be re-constituted to create new virgin-quality materials, he said.
The technology delivers high conversion yields of 65-75 per cent and generates chemical feedstocks that have been qualified for the circular economy by multiple petrochemical companies globally, he added.
The technology’s patented fully-continuous process architecture provides ease-of-scale and development of modular lines each capable of processing between 15 and 100 tonne per day per line of plastics.
The patented design offers significant cost efficiencies, with capital costs up to one-half to one-fourth of competitive technologies in Europe and the US, while delivering projects EBITDA exceeding 50 per cent.
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