ReNew Wilton Hydrothermal Upgrading Demonstration Plant

对Resilience Fund Strand 2的申请是为了在2020年2月基准材料价格上涨后，为该项目提供额外的财务支持。这是最初的智能可持续塑料包装示范第一轮拨款提交的时间，新冠肺炎之前的混乱。该项目包括在蒂赛德的威尔顿国际工厂建立和优化第一个20,000 TPA水热升级示范工厂(HHPRS)，该工厂将把使用寿命结束的塑料转化为碳氢化合物原料(蜡、油、石脑油)，用于生产新的塑料和其他化学品，回收塑料中包含的化学分子。塑料废物的化学回收有望创建下一代后处理工厂。传统的塑料机械回收在可回收塑料的类型、可回收的次数(变色)、机械回收塑料的允许用途、对多层塑料的厌恶等方面受到限制。与传统的再处理机相比，化学回收方法容忍更广泛的塑料的异质性。因此，水热升级是对机械回收的补充，通过处理这些生命周期结束时可能被焚烧或填埋的塑料，使化学物质可用于生产新塑料，包括食品级和其他成品。该过程使用超临界水加热，并在催化剂的存在下，将塑料聚合物分解为较短的链分子。水在提供氢气以完成断裂的化学键方面起到了重要作用，降低了复杂性和成本。这是由RENEW ELP有限公司拥有和运营的第一个类型项目，其目的是展示用于hyprs技术平台的商业规模设施的可靠运行，为不同的原料建立最佳的反应堆条件，并确认产品质量和为产品建立市场。该工厂的设计包括预制部件(如挤出机、锅炉)和一系列钢制部件。预制组件和制造组件的原材料成本都出现了显著增长。拨款申请是为了支持RENEW ELP团队按时和高质量地交付该项目，并帮助对该化学加工演示设备的关键部件的不可预见和具有财务挑战性的成本上升具有弹性。

The Application to the Resilience Fund Strand 2 is to provide additional financial support to the project, following increases to material prices benchmarked in February 2020\. This was the time of the original Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Demonstrator Round 1 grant submission, pre-COVID-19 pandemic.The project comprises building and optimising a first-of-its kind 20,000 tpa hydrothermal upgrading demonstration plant (HydroPRS) at the Wilton International site, Teesside, that will convert end of life plastic in to hydrocarbon feedstock (waxes, oils, naphtha) to be used for the production of new plastic and other chemicals, recycling the chemical molecules contained within plastic.Chemical recycling of plastic waste promises to create the next generation of reprocessing plants. Traditional mechanical recycling of plastic is limited in respect of the types of plastic that can be recycled, number of times it can be recycled (discolouration), the allowable uses of mechanical recycled plastic, the dislike of multi layered plastics, etc. Chemical recycling methodologies tolerate a wider range of non-homogeneity of plastics, relative to traditional re-processors. Hydrothermal upgrading therefore complements mechanical recycling by processing these other end of life plastics that might otherwise be incinerated or landfilled, making the chemical available for the production of new plastic, including to food grade, and other finished goods.The process employs supercritical water to heat, and in the presence of a catalyst, to break the plastic polymer into shorter chain molecules. The water plays an important part in providing hydrogen to complete the broken chemical bonds, reducing complexity and cost.The purpose of this first of a type project, owned and operated by Renew ELP Ltd, is to demonstrate the reliable operation of a commercial-scale facility for the HydroPRS technology platform, establish the optimum reactor conditions for different feedstocks, and confirm product quality and establish markets for the products.The Plant's design includes pre-manufactured components (such as an extruder, boilers) and an array of steel fabricated parts. The raw material costs for both pre-manufactured components and those for fabrication have seen significant increases. The grant application is to support the ReNew ELP team to deliver this project to time and quality, and help be resilient to the unforeseen, and financially challenging cost rises in critical components for this chemical processing demonstrator.