Lummus opts for Farrel Pomini’s continuous mixer for pyrolysis facility | Sustainable Plastics

Farrel Pomini, a supplier of continuous mixing systems for the polymer processing industry, has partnered with Lummus, a licensor of various process technologies, on the supply of the mixing equipment for a waste plastics pyrolysis process developed by Lummus. The process takes streams of post-industrial and post-consumer waste and converts them into gas, pyrolysis oil and pitch product. The resulting pyrolysis oil products can be further processed in traditional refining and petrochemical assets and turned into monomers for new plastics production or blended into fuels.

Farrel Pomini’s continuous mixing technology is based on the Farrel Continuous Mixer -FCM - and plays an key role in this process The FCM mixes plastic waste melts feedstock resins and homogenises them under specific temperature and pressure parameters before the feedstock proceeds to the pyrolysis section of the process.

The process’ vertical reactor design creates a continuous process that ensures the highest-quality pyrolysis with the widest range of post-use feedstocks. With no exotic metallurgy required or solid waste to manage, the process is flexible, efficient and cost-effective.

“Our Continuous Mixing Technology enables this partnership to succeed thanks to the FCM’s two non-intermeshing rotors and novel features specific to a pyrolysis process,” explained Farrel Corporation President Paul Lloyd. “The mixer can intake low bulk density feedstock, melt it with energy efficiency, and is also built robustly to handle recycled streams with contamination.”

“Our equipment is ideal for processing a wide variety of chemical and mechanical recycling applications,” he said. “We are proud to be working with companies like Lummus, who are dedicated to developing real-world solutions to solving the plastic waste problem.”

Lummus licenses process technologies in clean fuels, renewables, petrochemicals, polymers, gas processing and supplies lifecycle services, catalysts, proprietary equipment and digitalisation to customers worldwide. Its Green Circle business unit boast a technology portfolio of solutions to process solid wastes containing plastics; process various renewable bio-based feedstocks to value-added chemicals, polymers and fuels; decarbonise refinery and petrochemicals assets, and expand production of blue hydrogen and biofuels.

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