Pyrum delivers first recovered oil to BASF from new plant

Dillingen, Germany – Pyrum Innovations AG said it has reached a new milestone in an ongoing expansion project at its flagship recycling plant in Dillingen, in the German state of Saarland.

The waste tire pyrolysis company has now delivered a ‘first truck-load’ of around 24,000 litres of pyrolysis oil to BASF, from the third commissioning run of reactor II (TAD 2) at the site.

The delivery was made following sampling of the oil, which Pyrum said confirmed that the new plant meets ‘all required specifications’.

So far, the TAD2 unit has produced 60,000 litres of oil and further deliveries are expected in the near future.

“After three weeks of continuous production, we have reached a new milestone with the first delivery of our pyrolysis oil from TAD 2 to BASF,” said CEO Pascal Klein.

Pyrum, he added, is now preparing to reach its intermediate goals, which include the in-house generation of electricity from TAD 2 and a first test run of reactor III (TAD 3) at Dillingen.

Meanwhile, TAD 2 is now undergoing a 'thermal-cleaning' phase before being shut down for scheduled testing, the company added.

The next operational run, it added, is planned for the coming weeks as part of the start of self-generation of electricity from the pyrolysis gas in the turbines.

Pyrum said it is now applying “the lessons learned from the TAD 2 test runs” to its third reactor in Dillingen.

Preparations for the first test run of TAD3 are expected to be completed by the end of March, with the aim of “rapidly ramping up this reactor to 80% of its nominal capacity.”

Once the two new lines (TAD 2 & 3) are operational, the Dillingen site is expected to triple its processing capacity to 20 kilotonnes per annum of end-of-life tires.