QM Recycled Energy (QMRE) has taken a further step towards the realisation of its ambition to develop a national network of plastic waste-2-oil systems. QMRE is one of the four members of the G4 consortium that entered into a partnership agreement with Norway-based Eagle Technology AS, under which the consortium will sell, distribute and deploy of Eagle Technology’s pyrolysis-based recycling technology. Also participating are Plast 2 Circular, who will be active in Spain & Portugal; CosaREC, who will cover Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland & France; and Blue Cycle, who will handle Nigeria & South Africa. QMRE’s territory is the UK and Northern Ireland.
Eagle Technology has developed a containerised system called Vixla that uses pyrolysis technology to transform waste plastic into arenewable resource with minimal emissions and energy consumption.
QMRE will be Eagle’s first commercial site.
However, prior to the installation of the Vixla, QMRE has now installed a comprehensive pre-treatment system – necessary to help ensure the oil created from the plastic waste provides the required level of purity.
The Q20 QMRE Pre-treatment system is a modular, automated system designed to extract the required relevant polymers. It comprises a bale shredder, friction cleaner and fines segregation, wet shredder to size reduce the plastic waste to the optimum for the Vixla, and a sink float tank to further segregate the specific polymers. These are then compressed and dried in a cyclone before entering the storage silo, after which they are ready for loading into the Vixla plastic waste-2-oil system.
The Q20, constructed in Europe to QMRE’s specifications, is a design exclusive to QMRE and integrates with the Vixla V5 modular plastic waste-2-oil system. The system has the capacity to process 20 tonnes per day.
The Q20 is currently being prepared for commissioning trials.
“The delivery of the Q20 pre-treatment system is an important stage in QMRE’s development,” Tim StClair-Pearce, QMRE CEO said. “We now look forward to receiving the Vixla system very shortly.”