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The system uses liquefaction, pyrolysis and distillation of plastics. The system can handle almost all
the End of Life Plastic that is currently being sent to landfills. A major advantage of the process is
its high efficiency. Each plant can produce up to 19k litres of fuel from 20 tonnes of End of Life
Plastic.

Current Situation of Recycling of Plastics

Various methodologies have been tried and tested to
process waste or end of life plastics for many years, with
recycling becoming the most common method reflecting the
needs of today. Plastics that cannot be processed are
handled by waste management companies mainly through
land-filling or incineration.

The building or expanding of incinerators has become

difficult due to opposition from governments and community
groups with environmental concerns, most notably the levels
of emissions.

Liquefaction of plastic is a superior method of reusing this

resource. These distillate products are excellent fuels and
make the C ynar Technology one of the best, economically
feasible and environmentally sensitive recycling systems in
the world today.

The synthetic fuels produced, given their low sulphur and high cetane qualities, will most likely be
utilised by the recycling organisations on-site for use in the vehicle fleet as SITA plan to do or
heavy equipment and generators.

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Pyrolysis
Pyrolysis is a process of thermal degradation of a material in the absence of oxygen. Plastic is
continuously treated in a cylindrical chamber and the pyrolytic gases condensed in a specially-
designed condenser system to yield a hydrocarbon distillate comprising straight and branched
chain aliphatics, cyclic aliphatics and aromatic hydrocarbons. The resulting mixture is essentially
equivalent to petroleum distillate. The plastic is pyrolised at 370ºC -420ºC and the pyrolysis gases
are condensed and liquid separated using fractional distillation to produce the liquid fuel products.

The essential steps in the pyrolysis of plastics

involves:

1. evenly heating the plastic to a narrow temperature

range without excessive temperature variations
2. purging oxygen from pyrolysis chamber,
3. managing the carbonaceous char by-product before
it acts as a thermal insulator and lowers the heat
transfer to the plastic
4. careful condensation and fractionation of the
pyrolysis vapours to produce distillate of good quality
and consistency

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Structure of the System

The system consists of stock in-feed system, pyrolysis chambers, contactors, distillation, oil
recovery line and syn-gas..

End of Life Plastics are loaded via a hot-melt infeed system directly into main pyrolysis chamber.

Agitation commences to even the temperature and homogenise the feedstocks. Pyrolysis then
commences and the plastic becomes a vapour. Non-plastic materials fall to the bottom of the
chamber.

The vapour is converted into the various fractions in the distillation column, the distillates then pass
into the recovery tanks.

The System diverts the Syn Gas through a Scrubber and then back into the furnaces to heat the
pyrolysis chambers.

The cleaned distillates are then pumped to the storage tanks.

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Operations
The heart of the pyrolysis system is the prime chamber,
which performs the essential functions of homogenisation
and controlled decomposition in a single process. The
process requires minimal maintenance and produces a
consistent quality distillate from End of Life Plastic..

The key to an efficient pyrolysis process is to ensure the

plastic is heated uniformly and rapidly. If temperature
gradients develop in the molten plastic mass then different
degrees of cracking will occur and products with a wide
distribution of chain lengths will be formed.
Cynar has signed an Agreement with Loughborough
University in the UK to Partner in the further
advancement/optimisation of the Cynar Technolgy
and is also looking at converting 'other' End of Life
Plastic feedstocks. This strategic partnership will
assist in ensuring that the Cynar Technology will
remain the world leader in the Pyrolysis of End of Life Plastics to Liquid Fuel.

Cynar ELP Technology - Process Flow Diagram

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CYNAR PLC
Unit 601, C apital Tower, 91 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8RT
Tel: +353 (0) 57 868 0660 • Fax:+353 (0) 57 868 0640 • Email: info@cynarplc.com

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