High-Quality Hydrocarbon Recovery
Extracts pure naphtha, diesel, aromatics, and waxes from plastic waste
Efficient Impurity Removal
Effectively removes contaminants like sulfur, nitrogen, and chlorine for clean oil
Modular and Flexible Solutions
Skid-mounted, adaptable units for rapid, easy integration and operation
PyroCare™ mixed plastics pyrolysis
Sulzer’s advanced purification technologies transform mixed plastic waste into premium hydrocarbon feedstocks.
By efficiently removing contaminants like sulfur, nitrogen, chlorine, and oxygenates, we enable pyrolysis oils to be used as high-quality fuels and chemical building blocks supporting true circularity in the plastics industry.
Main benefits
High-quality hydrocarbon recovery: Extracts pure naphtha, diesel, aromatics (BTX), and waxes from plastic pyrolysis oil, suitable for fuel and chemical use standards
Efficient impurity removal: Removes contaminants such as sulfur, nitrogen, chlorine, and oxygenates, ensuring clean oil for downstream processing
Modular and flexible solutions: Skid-mounted, adaptable units allow for rapid deployment and easy integration into various plant configurations
Key characteristics
Quenching technology: Rapidly cools pyrolysis gases to prevent unwanted reactions and improve product quality
Hydrotreating technology: Removes heteroatoms (sulfur, chlorine, nitrogen) and saturates olefins for stable, high-purity oil
Fractionation & distillation: Separates purified oil into valuable hydrocarbon fractions using advanced distillation
BTX recovery: Recovers benzene, toluene, and xylene for use in the petrochemical industry petrochemical use
Wax and Oil recovery: Extracts waxes and oils for use in various industrial applications
Performance guarantees: Ensures reliable, consistent results with proven technology
Simulation and testing capabilities: Offers in-house simulation and technical-scale testing for process optimization
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Upgrading plastic pyrolysis oils with targeted polishing
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PyroCare™ upgrading plastic pyrolysis oils with targeted polishing
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Discover how PyroCare transforms unstable, contaminant‑heavy pyrolysis oil into cleaner, more predictable feedstock, unlocking higher efficiency and reliability across the entire chemical recycling chain.
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Pyrolysis oil is a crude oil-like product obtained by chemically decomposing mixed plastic waste at high temperatures in the absence of oxygen. It contains a mix of hydrocarbons and impurities that require purification.
Pyrolysis oil contains impurities such as sulfur, nitrogen, chlorine, oxygenates, and halogens, which must be removed before the oil can be used as fuel or chemical feedstock in downstream processes.
Sulzer provides modular solutions including quenching, hydrotreating, fractionation, BTX recovery, and wax/oil separation all designed to turn mixed plastic pyrolysis oil into high-quality, purified hydrocarbon streams.
Sulzer’s technologies can recover naphtha, diesel, aromatics (BTX), waxes, and other valuable hydrocarbons each suitable for use as fuel or as feedstock for new plastics and chemicals.
By transforming mixed plastic waste into high-purity hydrocarbons, Sulzer enables true closed-loop recycling, where waste plastics are turned back into high-quality products equivalent to virgin materials.
Sulzer’s modular and skid-mounted units offer flexibility, fast deployment, and proven performance, allowing customers to adapt to different feedstocks and maximize the value recovered from plastic waste.
