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Quantafuel - Process Oil
From day one, Quantafuel’s fundamental idea has been to solve the world’s plastic waste problem by transforming soiled plastic into new products. This is our contribution to the circular economy of plastic waste. What makes Quantafuel unique is that we have developed technology that purifies the gas that forms in the process and alters the molecules. This allows us to produce a chemically recycled, attractive product that satisfies a huge need in the market.
The process in our industrial plant takes place as follows:
We receive plastic waste in bales of 6-700 kilograms, which are inspected for quality before being pressed into a screw and heated in a reactor furnace to 450 degrees without oxygen. This results in a gas and the process is called pyrolysis. Several other companies also do this, but they stop here and are left with a complex oil with numerous impurities such as chlorine, sulphur, nitrogen and oxygen that make it difficult to process further.
However, Quantafuel’s process continues. What is unique is that we have built a miniature refinery after the heating, so our factory starts where the others stop. We purify the oil by removing chlorine and other impurities such as ash, sulphur, nitrogen and so on, and process this through the catalysts, as has been done by large refineries for a century. Hydro cracking itself is nothing new, but we are only ones who have designed a catalyst to perform hydro cracking in gaseous form. The gas is purified, we alter the molecular structure and achieve a light, a medium and a heavy fraction that constitute recycled raw material for new plastic products.