Brightmark Energy to build commercial-scale plastics-to-fuel plant in Indiana with RES Polyflow technology
Type of post: NEWS IN BRIEF.
RES
Polyflow is
an Ohio-based company which has developed a plastics-to-fuel process. Its
technology directly transforms waste that has reached the end of its useful
life into useful products, like fuels and wax. Brightmark Energy (renewable
energy company headquartered in San Francisco) has just announced an investment
of 10 M$ in RES Polyflow and 47 M$ in the first commercial-scale plant to
utilize its technology.
Press release: “Brightmark
Energy Announces Major Investment in Nation’s First Commercial-Scale
Plastics-to-Fuel Plant”, 9/11/2018.
Figure 1. The core of the RES Polyflow
technology is a process vessel with the ability to handle up to 60 tons per day
of mixed polymer waste streams (extracted from the website of RES Polyflow)
Location
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Ashley (Indiana,
USA).
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Feedstock
and processing capacity
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100,000
tons of plastic waste.
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Products
and production capacity
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- 18
million gallons of ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel and naphtha blend stocks.
They will be purchased by BP to be distributed in the regional petroleum
market.
- 5 million
gallons of commercial grade waxes. They will be purchased by AM WAX.
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Employment
effect
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A total
of 136 full time manufacturing jobs will be created in when all phases of the
facility are operational.
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