Waste to Value
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Carbon products and Carbon Capture Utilisation & Storage (CCUS) and Green chemicals

The Hydrogen Refinery Plasma Electrolysis System (PES) is very efficient at producing pure hydrogen and syngas from waste.

Everything else in the waste stream emerges from PES as a hot carbon soot. Effectively carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS). 

The soot can be used as a precursor for carbon black or as a residue to make green cement replacing coal ash.

  • Carbon residue for green cement production
  • Precursor for carbon black for vehicle tires

As the world moves away from fossil fuels ,we need to find alternative to making the important chemicals we need.

Part of the answer is to recover the chemicals from waste.

According to the IGCC:

“The chemicals sector is crucial to the global economy’s transition to net zero. The sector is the third-largest source of industrial greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions globally and nearly 95% of all manufactured products use chemicals as inputs. To align with the goals of the Paris Agreement, chemical companies will need to transition production toward emissions neutral chemicals.

The IIGCC To avoid the worst impacts of climate change on our global economy and to stay competitive in a changing market, it is critical that the chemicals industry takes action to transition using technically and economically viable strategies.“
This can be done as a consequence of the Hydrogen Refinery Plasma Electrolyser System (PES) process when processing non-recyclable mixed plastic waste, to make products such as:

  • CO2 derived chemicals and polymers
  • Acids
  • Lubricants

To give an example, chlorine is found in the common plastic PVC or Polyvinyl Chloride.
When PVC is introduced to the PES system the chlorine turns to hydrogen chloride that can then be used to make hydrochloric acid.

PVC = Hydrogen & carbon & Chlorine  = Hydrogen, carbon & Hydrogen Chloride
There are a diverse array of pathways to manufacture CO2 derived chemicals and polymers. Hydrogen Refinery follows the thermocatalysis pathway which is the most mature technology route. This provides a sustainable pathwasy to make ethanol precursors, polycarbonate, polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB), polyurethane (PUR) or polyol.