CircuPlast - A novel SCW technology for the circular management of non-recyclable plastics packaging waste.

该项目旨在评估和验证一种新的工艺技术，该技术将能够无差别地回收目前不可回收的混合塑料包装废物，并增加塑料包装的回收含量，同时防止塑料废物释放到环境中。我们的超临界水（SCW）技术CircuPlast使用水作为绿色溶剂，旨在实现塑料的无差别回收通过设计、开发和测试一个实验室规模的试验台，该项目将寻求评估CircuPlast在将不可回收的废塑料包装转化为适用于塑料制造的化学品方面的适用性。通过钻机的操作，与过程建模并行，该项目将使CircuPlast的操作性能得到优化和验证，所得数据用于通知商业规模设施的规模扩大和经济性能。此外，该项目还将寻求确定如何在废塑料包装供应链中部署CircuPlast，实现塑料的高效回收，同时为初级塑料制造提供可持续的化学原料来源。除了帮助解决与环境中的塑料有关的有据可查的问题外，该项目还将寻求采用真正的循环经济方法来管理不可回收的废塑料包装。

This project will seek to assess and validate a novel process technology that will enable the indiscriminate recycling of currently non-recyclable mixed plastics packaging waste and increase the recycled content of plastics packaging, whilst preventing the release of plastics waste into the environment.Using water as a green solvent, CircuPlast, our super critical water (SCW) technology seeks to enable the indiscriminate recycling of plastics (PP, PE, LDPE, HDPE and laminates) into a chemical feedstock for plastics manufacture, offsetting the requirement for fossil-oil derivatives for plastics production.Through the design, development and testing of a laboratory-scale test rig, this project will therefore seek to assess the applicability of CircuPlast for the conversion of non-recyclable waste plastics packaging into chemicals suitable for the manufacture of plastics. Through operation of the rig, in parallel with process modelling, this project will enable the operational performance of CircuPlast to be optimised and verified, with the resultant data being used to inform the scale-up and economic performance of a commercial scale facility. Furthermore, this project will also seek to identify how CircuPlast can be deployed within the waste plastics packaging supply chain, enabling highly efficient recycling of plastics whilst providing a sustainable source of chemical feedstock for primary plastics manufacture. As well as helping to address the well documented issues relating to plastics in the environment, this project will also seek to enable a truly circular economy approach to the management of non-recyclable waste plastics packaging.