{"id":7493,"date":"2023-03-10T15:53:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T15:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/task36.ieabioenergy.com\/?p=7493"},"modified":"2023-03-15T09:48:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T09:48:55","slug":"chemical-recycling-of-plastics-through-pyrolysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/task36.ieabioenergy.com\/news\/chemical-recycling-of-plastics-through-pyrolysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemical Recycling of Plastics through Pyrolysis"},"content":{"rendered":"
Emerging chemical recycling technologies covering processes like pyrolysis and gasification pave the way to recycle significantly more plastics than today by creating feedstocks for the chemical industry from mixed plastics wastes difficult to recycle mechanically. Key advantages are reduced climate and environmental impacts of plastic products through recycling that avoids incineration, landfilling or even littering of these materials.<\/p>\n
Through chemical feedstock recycling of plastics waste the fossil feedstock dependency of growing chemical and plastics industry will be reduced. Whilst large scale industrial gasification is an established route to produce syngas in many countries worldwide but on a fossil fuel basis, pyrolysis technologies are under development and have to undergo both scale-up and flexibilization in terms of waste feedstocks in order to deliver significant contributions to a circular economy of the future. As a consequence, there are only few sustainability assessments of chemical recycling technologies and process data such as mass and energy balances are missing.<\/p>\n
During his talk, Dieter Stapf<\/a> from Karlsruhe institute of Technology (KIT),Germany, showed some of the key outcomes when assessing plastics recycling technologies compared to non-recycling alternatives:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n You can now watch the recorded version of the workshop available here<\/a> (OBS: videos have not been edited).<\/em><\/p>\n\n