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Level International
Plastic types Mixed Plastics Recycled Plastics
Funding source European Union INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Advanced manufacturing and processing
Project Website https://www.icareplast.eu/
Project cost 7.919.307,50 EUR
Period October 2018 - October 2022
Geographical area Europe
Categories Environment and Climate Change Climate Change Raw Materials
Tags recycling sustainability AI sorting
Project partners
  • Universitat Politecnica de Valencia - Spain,
  • Technische Universität Braunschweig - Germany,
  • Ipoint-systems Gmbh,
  • Laboratorio Nacional de Energia e Geologia I.P.,
  • Biobtx Bv,
  • Imperial College Of Science Technology And Medicine - United Kingdom,
  • Universiteit Twente - Netherlands,
  • Kerionics S.l.,
  • Urbaser SA - Spain
Description

iCAREPLAST addresses the cost and energy-efficient recycling of a large fraction of today’s non-recyclable plastics and composites from urban waste. Heterogeneous plastic mixtures will be converted into valuable chemicals (alkylaromatic) via chemical routes comprising sequential catalytic and separation steps. This multistage process will also yield carbon char and a pure CO2 stream as products, whilst it will present improved economic sustainability, operational flexibility and lower CO2 footprint thanks to (i) the energetic valorisation of gas by-products through innovative oxycombustion units integrated with efficient heat recovery; and (ii) the use of AI predictive control and real time optimisation. iCAREPLAST aims to demonstrate (TRL-7) the whole technology for plastic waste valorisation in a pilot plant able to process >100 kg/h of plastic. Advanced upstream waste sorting, pre-treatment and pyrolysis is strongly backed by previous demonstration activities and knowhow of the consortium, with profound knowledge of waste management and recycling market.

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