Washington, DC-based Envion has developed a system to produce oil from waste plastic that although they keeping the lid on the details of its proprietary technology, they reveal that they extracting the hydrocarbons from plastic, and the low temperature thermal cracking in a vacuum is part of the process.
Envion was founded by Michael S. Han in January of 2004, alongside a group of seasoned and highly regarded executives with extensive track records of success in the energy, technology, and finance industries, as well as the public sector.
According to the company's website, the Envion Oil Generator is both efficient and environmentally sensitive, producing a net gain in energy recaptured, with vent gas generating electricity to drive the unit. The machine accepts most types of waste plastic, without the need for pre-sorting or cleaning, and is able to handle plastic currently sitting in landfill sites.
The Envion Oil Generator™ accepts PET, HDPE, PVC, LDPE, PP, PS, and several other plastic materials, such as GPPS, EPS, HIPS, and PA.
The company claims that a single oil generator can convert 10,000 tons of plastic into more than 50,000 barrels of oil a year, at a cost of USD 17 per ton. Given the cost of the alternatives—landfill at USD 70–200 per ton, and recycling at USD 50–150 per ton—Envion looks set to clean up. Envion is also developing an application of the technology to convert car tires into oil.
With the overall plastic market is growing at a rate of more than 7% per year. While in 2005, over 230 million metric tons (over 500 billion pounds) of plastic was produced globally. Envion has come up with a commercially attractive solution to the problem of plastic waste, which should appeal to local authorities for whom waste management is an increasing struggle.
Source: Envion
Posts
0 comments:
Post a Comment