Farrel Pomini to work with Lummus for pyrolysis process
Mixing systems supplier Farrel Pomini, a part of the HF Mixing Group, recently announced a partnership with Lummus Technology in developing a plastic pyrolysis process.
Farrel Pomini’s continuous mixing technology (FCM/Farrel Continuous Mixer) plays an essential role in a pyrolysis process for plastics 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 FCM melts feedstock resins and homogenizes them under specific temperature and pressure parameters.
This process starts with the Farrel continuous mixer, which mixes plastic waste before entering the pyrolysis section of the process. The resulting pyrolysis oil products can be further processed in traditional refining and petrochemical assets and turned into monomers for new plastics production.
The process’ unique vertical reactor design creates a continuous process that ensures 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.
Lummus is a licensor of process technologies in clean fuels, renewables, petrochemicals, polymers, gas processing and supplies lifecycle services, catalysts, proprietary equipment and digitalisation to customers worldwide.
“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.”
In 2010, Germany’s Harburg-Freudenberger Maschinenbau GmbH, Farrel Corporation and Italy’s Pomini Rubber & Plastics integrated to form HF Mixing Group.
Farrel Pomini was established in 2011 to focus expertise in the continuous mixing equipment sector of the HF Mixing Group member companies.
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