Interesting artical sent to me by a friend. it sounds an expensive process
not as good as bio
Oily
POINT ROBERTS, Washington -- Clyvia Inc. (OTC BB:CLYV.OB - News) announced
that its wholly owned subsidiary, Clyvia Technology GmbH ("Clyvia
Technology"), successfully converted 3 metric tons (approximately 3.3 US
tons) of plastics into 2,000 liters (approximately 528 US gal.) of diesel
fuel. These test results are in addition to the results announced yesterday
by Clyvia with respect to Clyvia Technology's successful large scale trial
run for manufacturing diesel out of waste oils. In this latest test run, a
mixture of three kinds of plastics were used: plastic sheeting used for
agricultural purposes, industrial waste plastics produced during the
manufacture of electric fencing, and plastic materials sorted from domestic
waste collection. These materials were first heated to a temperature of 270
degreesC and then fed into Clyvia Technology's pilot plant reactor. Once
inside the reactor, the plastics were subjected to the fractional
depolymerization process developed by Clyvia Technology, a process that is
similar in operation to the cracking of crude oil. Initial
gas-chromatographic analysis of the resulting product has shown that the
fuel produced meets the quality requirements for diesel and heating fuel. A
sample batch has been submitted to an independent accredited research
laboratory in order to confirm that the resulting product conforms with DIN
(German standardization) norms. Although the test run was conducted using a
mixture of different types of plastics, Clyvia Technology expects that, once
the plant begins permanent operations, the various types of plastics will be
processed individually. Isolating the different types of plastics will allow
Clyvia Technology greater control over the quality of the output product
produced. Once Clyvia Technology's large scale waste oil and plastics trial
runs were completed, the pilot plant's reactor was dismantled in order to
conduct a functional diagnostic of the reactor parts. In addition, Clyvia
Technology will conduct tests on the individual residues inside the reactor
and will check for deposits that may have formed on the interior of the
reactor. Once these diagnostics have been completed, Clyvia Technology will
attempt to determine if the production process can be even further refined
before the plant is once again put into operation. Clyvia Technology GmbH is
a subsidiary of Clyvia Inc., a Nevada, USA corporation. Clyvia's shares are
traded on over-the-counter market in the United States (OTC BB:CLYV.OB -
News) as well as on the stock market in Frankfurt. This Press Release may
contain, in addition to historical information, forward-looking statements.
These forward looking statements are based on management's expectations and
beliefs, and may involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties and other
factors that may cause the actual results to be materially different from
the results implied herein. In particular, readers are cautioned that Clyvia
Technology is still in the process of developing recycling/processing
systems based on its fractional depolymerization technology. Clyvia
Technology has not yet developed any commercially marketable
recycling/processing systems and there are no assurances that it will be
able to do so in the future. Furthermore, there are no assurances that
independent laboratory tests will confirm that the fuel produced during the
above trial run will comply with standardized requirements for diesel fuel.
Source: Clyvia Inc.

Hi Oily and Everyone else,
Reconversion of plastic to oil has been a subject that was being researched for the last two decades.Many technologies with partial sucess has been developed so far.
Including stuff from Ozmetech a home grown oz mob who have developed a fairly functional commercial module.A few german mob have done similar work.CWT technologies Inc has developed something very interesting in the states.
Of all of these the most cost effective small scale model which is commercial feasable has been recently patented By Dr.Mrs.Alka Razdoankar in India.She has been on it since 1992 and in 2003 developed the first pilot scale model which uses a propiatary catalyst.The key to the whole process.
In 2005 a 5TPD plant was commissioned in Nagpur.
It was only in April this year that after the govt of Netherlands looked at the whole thing and wanted to buy out the whole technology that she started getting attention.
I was only talking about it yesterday to Robert.
I will be talking to her sometime this week.As I am very interested to see wether she would be willing to share the home brew version.From which she built the scaleable version.
As this could mean that a lot of recycling of the plastics can be done in our own backyard.And to give her credit and acknowledgement home recyclers buys the propitoray chemicals from her.
Or even the home model plant if she is willing to look into the segment.

More as we progress.

We can only build it together.

Cheers
Sauman

It is an interesting concept ,I look forward to the latest info.
Thanks Oily

There was an interesting article in Virgin Blue's in-flight magazine in October re Biofuel and Ozmotech. The conversation above seems the only one re using plastic waste and now it sems Omotech doing very well... any updates or info anyone..? Cheers! James

It is interesting that they are able to do this with domestic plastics waste, which contains a lot of PVC. PVC, because it contains chlorine is hard to burn, no details in the report of whether there was much PVC in the mixture or whether chlorine was removed from the gas that the plastic produced.