Solution
FRE turns Europe’s waste plastic into sustainable petrochemical feedstocks
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Feedstock
Plastic waste that cannot be recycled mechanically is cleaned and shredded in FRE’s pretreatment process
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Pre-treatment
The plastic is melted and mixed with FRE’s proprietary catalyst and solvent in an extruder, this inexpensively removes the majority of contamination from the feed
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Reactor design
The melted plastic is sent to FRE’s scalable catalytic reactor which cracks the plastic into shorter chain hydrocarbon molecules in vapor form
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End product
The hydrocarbon vapor is subsequently condensed and separated into different products by a distillation column. The syngas exiting the top of the column is compressed and the valuable monomers such as ethylene and propylene used in plastic manufacturing are separated
