Greenstar Recycling and Vadxx Energy partner to convert recycled plastics to synthetic crude oil
27 June 2011
Greenstar Recycling has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to form a joint venture (JV) with Vadxx Energy, LLC to convert recovered plastic into synthetic crude oil using Vadxx’s thermal depolymerization process.
Greenstar and Vadxx expect that the JV will begin producing crude oil in mid-2012 with the target location for the project in Ohio.
Vadxx manufactures or recovers commodities from petroleum-based waste streams; products include synthetic crude oil, natural gas, recovered metals and carbon. Specifications of Vadxx crude oil are largely functions of the raw materials consumed and the operating parameters employed. The Vadxx process produces oil with a lower sulfur content than that found in any naturally occurring oil, the company says. Vadxx oil is also light, with API gravities primarily between 35 and 45 degrees.
This sounds good, you can only recycle plastic for certain uses. I read only 1 in 4 plastic bottles is recycled, if we improve that more is available for this.
Posted by: SJC | 27 June 2011 at 07:56 AM
May we could be recycled to extend the life of our gas guzzlers?
Posted by: HarveyD | 27 June 2011 at 08:07 AM
It offsets oil imports, what vehicles we use is up to the market and CAFE.
Posted by: SJC | 27 June 2011 at 08:32 AM
Wonder if this process can take plastics that were already recycled?
Posted by: danm | 27 June 2011 at 12:41 PM
@danm: I don't see why not.
Posted by: GreenPlease | 28 June 2011 at 08:42 AM
Waste-plastic-to-oil was one of the claims of Changing World Technologies all the way back to the "Anything Into Oil" days.
One wonders how this process compares to CWT's, and just how economical it is. How it deals with e.g. halogenated plastics like PVC would be good to know too.
Posted by: Engineer-Poet | 30 June 2011 at 05:42 PM