Anellotech plans to get started innovative lab screening and scale-up for Tex-TCat. The Tex-TCat fluid bed catalytic pyrolysis technological innovation recycles combined waste textiles straight into the identical chemical feedstocks (such as benzene, toluene, and xylenes) that are applied right now to make virgin synthetics like polyester and nylon – delivering a closed-loop, fibre-to-fibre alternative a textile recycling dilemma.
Tex-TCat produces a path to convert mixed textile waste into secondary resources (BTX) as a substitute of intermediates like pyrolysis oil. The technological know-how requires no incineration or burning of squander feedstock. Lab-scale scientific studies have demonstrated that Tex-TCat can process a selection of frequent textile components that are incinerated or landfilled – which include cotton, polyester, nylon, elastane, acrylic, and polyurethane as perfectly as blends of these and other generally utilised textile resources.
The style sector provides 100 billion clothes every single 12 months. Whilst the connect with for circular vogue is progressively urgent, 92 million tonnes of squander still conclusion up in landfills. This waste is thanks to the deficiency of commercially viable recycling systems for minimal-high quality and blended textiles as very well as textile blends. While garments like 100 per cent cotton or polyester are recyclable with legacy systems, Tex-TCat complements mono-fibre garments as properly as all non-recyclable blends and functional textiles.
Characteristics of Tex-TCat
- Recycles synthetic and natural fibres as perfectly as blends into useful chemicals, properly strengthening circular economics and lowering international greenhouse gasoline emissions.
- Designs to work at scale with the very first plant ready to method ~200,000 tonnes for each year, and subsequent crops as huge as a single million tonnes, depending on feedstock availability.
“Tex-TCat has the possible to divert huge portions of formerly unrecyclable textiles from landfills and give main manufacturers, as a result of their present suppliers, with recycled content,” claims David Sudolsky, president and CEO of Anellotech. “The technology guarantees to be a critical enabler of the textile industry’s perform to develop into far more sustainable.”
The enhancement program’s subsequent steps include optimizing the feedstock preparing for productive reactor feeding as properly as extra lab scientific studies that will direct to very long-phrase trials in Anellotech’s absolutely automated .5-tonne-per-working day method demonstration plant.
