Japan Energy to produce petchems from plastics

03 July 2008 12:50  [Source: ICIS news]

TOKYO (ICIS news)--Japan Energy has become the country's first refiner to use processed waste plastic as a thermal cracking fuel at its Mizushima refinery, the company said.

The nation’s sixth largest refiner planned to convert around 1,000 kilolitres/year of liquefied waste plastic to petrochemical products, mainly naphtha, by using the hydrogenation refining unit at Mizushima, the company added in a statement on Wednesday.

The refiner had been testing the process since 2004, and had implemented the practice this month, it added.

Japan Energy planned to increase the processing amount in the future, but did not elaborate.

Japan generated 10m tonnes of waste plastic in 2006 of which 10,000 tonnes were processed at plants around the country, and 5,000 kilolitres of liquefied plastic was produced, the firm said.

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