Projektbeschreibung
Neuartige Recycling-Technologie für Kunststoffabfälle
Der Klimawandel zwingt Menschen und Regierungen dazu, neue umweltfreundliche Lösungen für ein besseres Recycling zu finden. Derzeit werden etwa 70 % der Kunststoffabfälle in Europa entweder aus wirtschaftlichen oder technischen Gründen nicht recycelt. Die Folge ist, dass große Mengen an Abfällen auf Deponien abgelagert oder verbrannt werden – beides mit negativen Auswirkungen auf die Umwelt. Das EU-finanzierte Projekt iCAREPLAST wird diesen Trend umkehren, indem es eine neue Methode zur Steigerung des Recyclings von Kunststoffabfällen und zur Förderung einer Kreislaufwirtschaft einführt. Mit dieser neuen Methode können nicht recycelte Kunststoffabfälle mithilfe eines Verfahrens recycelt werden, das die Energiekosten senkt und gleichzeitig die Erzeugung von Produkten wie Kohle und CO2-Strömen ermöglicht.
Ziel
Approximately 70% of European plastic waste (18.5 mt/year) is not being recycled due to technical or economic reasons and are thus sent to landfill (27%) or incinerated (42%). This situation affects negatively the environment in terms of pollution and greenhouse gases emissions, as well as social perception regarding waste management, consumer’s products industry and policy makers.
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.
iCAREPLAST solution will enforce circular economy by substantially increasing the amount of recycled plastics to produce commodity products that can be used for virgin-quality polymers production or as raw materials for other processes in petrochemicals, fine chemicals, automotive and detergent/surfactants industries. As a result of its initial exploitation we will treat 250,000t of plastic waste which otherwise would have become landfill, converting it into 1,500t of alkylaromatics and 1,000t of aromatics.
Wissenschaftliches Gebiet
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processesrecycling
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcomposites
- natural scienceschemical sciencespolymer sciences
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
Schlüsselbegriffe
Programm/Programme
Aufforderung zur Vorschlagseinreichung
Andere Projekte für diesen Aufruf anzeigenUnterauftrag
H2020-NMBP-SPIRE-2018
Finanzierungsplan
IA - Innovation actionKoordinator
28006 Madrid
Spanien