20% of landfill volume taken up by mixed waste plastic
26 million tons of plastic landfilled annually in the US
73 million tons of plastic landfilled annually in Europe
24.5 billion gallons of petroleum products could be converted annually with Agilyx's technology given the US and European volumes of mixed waste plastic
50% projected increase in global demand for oil in the next 20 years
Our process is relatively simple. Forced air, heated by a gas burner, is used to indirectly heat the feedstock inside the process vessel. The air is continually recycled in a loop to minimize heat loss.
The process vessel is isolated from oxygen and is exposed to a negative pressure (vacuum) environment. The energy transferred to the plastic feedstock from the burner is used to depolymerize, or "crack", the plastic into synthetic crude oil.
Oil is chromatographically removed from the waste plastic and aggregated from several vessels for on-site micro-refinement or sent to existing commercial refinement facilities.
Waste products are recycled for energy usage (gases), treated and reused or disposed (liquids), or made available for commercial use (solids).