U.K. firm funding waste-tires-to-fuel project
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LONDON British fuel distributor Greenergy International Ltd. is planning to venture into the generation of low-sulfur drop-in fuels made from waste tires using pyrolysis technology from a Danish surface sciences company.
Greenergy has secured a site east of London for a processing plant that will convert waste tires into low-carbon, low-sulfur drop-in fuels that can be blended into diesel and gasoline, the London-based companyy said, using
The project s initial phase will focus on setting up capacity to produce up to 300 metric tons of shredded tires per day that will then be processed into fuels. The plant still requires planning approval. Greenergy hopes to commercialize the site in 2025.
Boost for freeport bid as Thames Enterprise Park joins London Gateway, Port of Tilbury and Ford
THE bid for a freeport on the Thames is now even stronger. Thames Enterprise Park – a 669-acre former oil refinery development site shortly to become a manufacturing, logistics and clean energy hub – is joining the bid.
Located directly next to DP World London Gateway, Thames Enterprise Park will bring additional development and expansion land to the bid, as well as add to its vision for a clean fuel hydrogen network that aligns closely with the UK’s net zero carbon agenda.
Thames Enterprise Park is one of the largest regeneration projects in the UK and bringing it into the bid as a customs sub-zone means that the transformative impact of freeport status will be even greater – a key objective of the Government’s freeport policy.
(Greenergy) Greenergy announces its continued commitment to renewables through an investment in advanced biofuels. Utilising a combination of existing technologies, the project will create low carbon fuels from waste tyre feedstock.
The project will utilise pyrolysis and hydrotreating technologies to convert waste tyres into renewable drop-in advanced biofuels that can be used in diesel and petrol and qualify as development fuels under the UK’s Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation. The plant will also have the capability to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
Processing up to 300 tonnes of shredded tyres each day in the first phase, the manufacturing process also creates recovered carbon black, a product that can be used in the circular economy to produce new tyres and other industrial rubber products.
Greenergy opts for Haldor Topsoe’s HydroFlex technology to produce low-carbon fuels from waste tires
Greenergy will invest in Front End Engineering Design (FEED) of a project to produce low-carbon transportation fuels from waste tires. In the first phase, the planned facility will process up to 300 tons of shredded tires each day to produce low-carbon, low-sulfur drop-in fuels that can be blended into diesel and gasoline. A second hydrotreating unit will have the capacity to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
Topsoe’s proven HydroFlex technology has been chosen for hydroprocessing in both units.
An estimated 1.5 billion tires are discarded each year worldwide, creating significant waste. This project will be the first of its kind to use waste tires as feedstock for low-carbon, low-sulfur fuel production. The tires will be pyrolyzed to produce pyrolysis oil that can be catalytically converted into fuel using Topsoe’s HydroFlex technology.
17:07 PM | January 18, 2021 | Mark Thomas
Project, currently at FEED stage, scheduled for production start-up in 2025; will use hydroprocessing technology from Haldor Topsoe.
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