MUMBAI, India, July 25 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517066345 A) filed by Borealis Ag, Vienna, on July 11, for 'plastic treatment process.'
Inventor(s) include Martinez Joaristi, Alberto; Mota Salinas, Ana Lilia; Ouni, Tuomas; Reguillo Carmona, Rebeca; Vavizos, Nikolaos; Vaskikari, Elisa; Dingwell, Kristofer; Huizinga, Tom; and Luciani, Tommaso.
The application for the patent was published on July 25, under issue no. 30/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The invention provides a process for the treatment of mixed plastic waste, said process comprising the following steps, in sequential order: a) converting a mixed plastic waste to a pyoil in a pyrolysis reactor; b) contacting at least a portion of the pyoil with a catalyst in the presence of hydrogen in a hydrotreatment unit to produce a hydrotreated pyoil; c) separating the hydrotreated pyoil into at least two fractions, wherein one of said fractions is a heavy fraction, preferably at least three fractions: a light fraction, a medium fraction and a heavy fraction, in a separating unit; and d) feeding the heavy fraction to a catalytic cracking reactor to produce a cracked heavy fraction."
The patent application was internationally filed on Dec. 22, 2023, under International application No.PCT/EP2023/087754.
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