Municipal solid waste (PVC,PP,PE based plastic waste) for non-incineration recovery, R&D project and related patent!
Research and development and a detailed description of the patents involved can be found at the links below:
- Research and development project on thermolithic degradation of plastic waste, pyrolysis oil (diesel oil), pyrolytic coke, pyrolytic gas production, recovery
- Call for information and information on patent exploitation
Proposing the use of a significant technological innovation with a high innovation content as a fuel in the recycling processes of plastic waste generated in their interest
Summary:
Demonstration of an innovative technology solution to facilitate processes for the integration of PE-PP based plastic waste from your waste management and collection into the circular treatment process and to contribute to the recycling rate of 55% by 2030
Dear Sir/Association!....
Waste management is a public issue and it is important for all of us that the very slow-degrading chemical waste generated in our daily lives, mainly from the mass use of packaging and other polyethylene and polypropylene-based, mostly single-use oil solutions, is properly managed and that its environmental footprint is significantly reduced in the future.
In line with with Directive (EU) 904/2019, the objectives of the Climate and Nature Action Plan, the European Union Directive 2008/98/EC and the national regulations based on it, the National Waste Management Plan, version III in force, the National Prevention Programme and other legislation, regulations and, in particular, the National Waste Management Plan 2015. On 2 December 2009, the Commission adopted the "Circular Economy Action Plan" and the climate targets and recycling efficiency provisions of the "Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive 94/62/EC", which commit/prescribe a high recycling rate of plastic waste (more than 60% by 2030), we would like to inform you about the next breakthrough:
Our company, Relabor Employment Rehabilitation Ltd., under my management, carried out basic R&D research based on our own idea in a consortium with Károly Róbert College, Gyöngyös Higher Education Institution, in which a new and significant breakthrough prototype equipment and technology solution was successfully developed and tested.
After establishing the evaluation and efficiency, and conducting cost-effectiveness and usability analyses, we have successfully registered a patent for the solution described in detail below.
The focus of the research is on the thermal (heating) decomposition of solid PVC, PP, PE-based municipal and institutional plastic waste, which otherwise (naturally) degrades only over extremely long periods of time, over centuries, and the production of end products that can be used as fuel or feedstock in the economy.
The aim for the installation of small-scale technical stations in small-scale industrial environments, small municipalities, local industrial plants, incinerators and waste yards, as described in the patent, in a manner suitable for the present form. It is also possible to use the equipment as a mobile unit mounted on a suitable carrier vehicle. In this context, the use of coherent islands of bottles at sea on a cruise ship could be envisaged.
The basis of our request is utility model No 4646 and patent No 230 966 registered under file number P 16 00067, with the following address:
Switching arrangement and method for the dismantling of municipal solid waste and/or plastic waste thermowells.
The patent was granted industrial property protection by the National Office of Intellectual Property on 09 February 2016, jointly by Gábor Sándor Tasnádi, Esztergom, and Veronika Hajduné Nagy, Esztergom. This protection was extended for another 10 years by the right holders in January 2025.
The new technology: the project has developed a technology for the thermal recovery of municipal waste containing plastic. Once developed and tested, it will be able to compete on a world scale with current high temperature incineration processes. The process could generate extra added value in waste management. The equipment will produce limited recyclable, non-degradable up to 2nd-3rd round instead of worthless waste mountains that are withdrawn from further reuse, mainly energy carriers, diesel clean oil, end product (soot) that can be used as fuel and heating fuel at the end of the process with high efficiency.
There are many advantages to this advanced and pioneering green, circular technology, as the process can not only contribute to the successful achievement of climate targets, the much talked about green transition, but is also in line with your mission, the Government's objectives and the relevant EU directives.
It can provide an effective and controlled solution to the management of "excess" modern plastic waste that accumulates in landfills and yards and is otherwise difficult to reintegrate into the value chain. The process can reduce the additional impact of resources that would otherwise be disposed of, which are harmful to the biosphere and the ozone layer, and which are by-products of industrial incineration, reducing the secondary environmental burden of warming, contributing to further reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere.
In contrast to incineration, our process can be effectively integrated as an alternative to current industrial incineration processes in a closed system, without any particular sensitivity to the type of waste.
After the final product, pre-sorted plastic waste is fed into the reactor: liquefied pyrolysis oil (diesel) or pyrolysis gas (which can be recycled during the heating process to power the system, thus improving the efficiency of the overall material recovery process, essentially making the process almost self-sustaining or significantly reducing the amount of external energy added).
The process also produces pyrolysis coke (soot), which can later be mixed with biomass and converted into briquette-type fuel pastilles at low cost to feed solid fuel heating systems.
The resulting pyrolysis oil can be used in a similar way to diesel, in engines, aggregators or otherwise as an additive in the economy, even in the production processes of new plastics materials.
The technology has numerous advantages, with a monitoring and control system developed on an experimental basis in a small-scale environment. The concrete thermolysis and condensation separation system for filtering the resulting final product is reliable, inexpensive to use and, due to the nature of the technology, has low environmental sensitivity (low or limited sensitivity to site specificities in terms of installation and operation).
Easy to maintain, they can be developed from small plants to industrial-scale solutions in a relatively simple way. It can add an active support solution to the existing toolbox to meet modern national waste management challenges.
Our calculations, based on our facts from previous years, suggested significant energy recovery potential as part of the process. Based on annual periods, the system could be suitable for heating public buildings, swimming pools, schools, local village public buildings. Its environmental impact can be reduced to negligible, depending on the contamination of the waste entering the reactor, due to the high efficiency of the process. Our station, which is based on a patent, is a prototype in a small-scale environment with a footprint of a few 10 sqm, and is located at the premises of Relabor Ltd. in Fehérgyarmat.
Under experimental, test-factory conditions, the following parameters were obtained:
30kg of plastic waste:
- 24 litres of about 20kg of pyrolysis oil (diesel fuel)
- 3 m3 of gas (5kg fill weight) can be used within the system to support the demolition process, no special treatment required
- 5kg of pulverised coal 5kg of carbon black (mixed with biomass, pressed for commercial use as solid fuel)
during a heating process of about 10 hours.
Based on the above, it can be seen that the R&D activities carried out by Relabor Ltd. have achieved their objective and have developed a green technology that can be used in practice and that generates value in a market environment, together with the consortium members.
Our claim above is not an exaggeration, with global patent protection and lower costs, this technology can indeed bring a global change towards a more complete recycling of plastic waste, currently identified as end-products, in the value chain. The process will pave the way for a wider application of circular technologies that promote "zero waste".
It provides the basis for a technology solution that is easy and widely applicable, and therefore marketable and, once implemented, easily licensed internationally.
At the moment, our Company has no plans to further deepen or exploit the R&D activity on its own. At present, the only challenge for us in the established waste collection system would be the widespread introduction and dissemination of the heated plastic disintegration technology.
Thus, the decision was taken to market the patented technical process that we, as inventors, have registered and to look for potential interested parties willing and able to take the necessary steps to design, implement, test and other related work.
We would like to be compensated for the intellectual and material work invested in the process of establishing and building the solution by working in partnership.
Please consider how significant an innovation this could be for you, and consider whether it fits your strategic project in the light of the laws, regulations, action plans and action plans indicated in the introduction to technology adoption.
Taking into account the financial and human resources required for implementation and the costs of other necessary steps, the possibilities of creating the necessary legal environment, the conditions, the potential risks and dangers, please consider the financial and moral rewards of the potential for future resale, technology transfer and transfer. Consider the implications for the perception of Hungarian waste management, the industry's cooperative system, the benefits that can be achieved, the secondary value that can be generated from the yields of the resulting diesel and heating briquettes.
If your internal projections, strategy and models confirm the usability vectors we have envisaged, please contact us to develop the final framework for the commercialisation of the process.
Think about what this could mean for Hungary as a whole, for Central and Eastern Europe, or on a larger global scale. How much potential for value creation to stabilise living conditions for future generations and for natural habitats.
Done at Esztergom, 17.01.2025.
In the hope of further cooperation,
Sincerely:
Sándor Gábor Tasnádi
Managing Director, Inventor
Relabor Ltd.
Contact details:
Sándor Gábor Tasnádi
e-mail: sandotasnadi@relabor.hu
phone: +3630 948 2338
Veronika Hajduné Nagy
e-mail: summaxkft@gmail.com
telephone: +3620 926 52 80