Advanced Hydroprocessing: The Cornerstone of FlexOnyx’s Waste Plastic Refining

The huge (and growing) challenge of managing waste plastics calls for transformative solutions that are both innovative and practical. An integral part of FlexOnyx’s FlexFeed™ is Advanced Hydroprocessing, a sophisticated combination of technologies that transforms waste plastics into valuable, market-ready fuels and chemicals. Let’s dive into the fascinating world of Advanced Hydroprocessing and explore how FlexOnyx will revolutionize waste management and fuel a cleaner, economically sustainable future.

What is Advanced Hydroprocessing?

Advanced Hydroprocessing is a next-generation refining approach that leverages proven principles to efficiently convert complex feedstocks into high-value products like ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD), SAF and naphtha. By integrating advanced chemical processes, it delivers a clean and flexible solution for transforming waste streams into market-ready fuels.

1. Breaking Down Complex Feedstocks: Advanced Hydroprocessing is optimized to simplify diverse materials into lighter, more usable components, enabling the conversion of challenging inputs into valuable outputs.
2. Purifying and Stabilizing: The process incorporates hydrogen to enhance product stability and remove unwanted elements, ensuring high-quality results that meet strict environmental and performance standards.

This comprehensive system is designed to handle the variability of real-world waste streams while minimizing byproducts and maximizing output efficiency. Advanced Hydroprocessing offers a scalable, reliable foundation for FlexFeed™, aligning with our mission to drive sustainability and resource recovery.

The FlexFeed™ Advantage: Unlocking the Potential of Waste Plastics

At the heart of FlexOnyx’s mission, the FlexFeed™ process is designed to convert waste plastics into valuable resources in a way that is both efficient and environmentally responsible. Advanced Hydroprocessing plays a crucial role in making this possible by addressing key challenges in waste plastic refining.

1. Adaptable to Diverse Feedstocks

Waste plastics come in many forms, often with varying compositions and contaminants. Advanced Hydroprocessing offers a versatile solution, capable of refining diverse inputs (including but not limited to waste plastics), making it well-suited for real-world waste streams.

2. High-Value Transformation

Advanced Hydroprocessing achieves exceptional conversion efficiency, ensuring that the majority of the input is transformed into clean, market-ready products. For FlexFeed™, this results in the production of ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD), Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), and naphtha, an essential component in plastics circularity.

3. Clean Outputs

Thanks to hydrogen, the process removes unwanted impurities, delivering outputs that meet or exceed global environmental standards. The resulting fuels, like ULSD, are clean-burning and contribute to reducing emissions.

4. Proven Foundations, Tailored for Innovation

Built on established refining principles, Advanced Hydroprocessing has been carefully adapted for the unique challenges of today’s economy. FlexOnyx capitalizes on FlexFeed’s™  adaptability to ensure consistent performance and high-quality outputs, combining economic performance with environmental goals.

By combining versatility, efficiency, and cleanliness, Advanced Hydroprocessing empowers FlexFeed™ to drive meaningful change in waste management and resource recovery, paving the way for a sustainable future.

Why Advanced Hydroprocessing is Clean and Sustainable

FlexOnyx’s FlexFeed™ process isn’t just about producing fuels; it’s about doing so in a way that achieves economic sustainability. Here’s why:

– Hydrogen Utilization: Hydrogen is integral to the process, helping to reduce impurities and improve the quality of outputs, ensuring compliance with environmental standards.

– Circular Economy Integration: Naphtha, one of the primary outputs, can be used to create new plastics, creating a closed-loop system that reduces reliance on virgin materials.

– Nothing goes to waste: All products are marketable!

– Controlled Emissions: FlexFeed™ operates within a closed system, ensuring that environmental impact is minimized.

Why Advanced Hydroprocessing (FlexFeed™) is the Future of Waste Plastic Refining

For FlexOnyx, Advanced Hydroprocessing represents more than just a technology; it’s a strategic enabler of our vision for a sustainable future. By integrating flexibility, efficiency, and cleanliness, it allows the FlexFeed™ system to address one of the world’s most pressing problems—waste plastic—while producing valuable resources that meet the needs of today’s world.

FlexFeed™’s ability to process up to 1.6 million tons of waste plastics per year, generate high-value outputs like ULSD, SAF, and naphtha, and operate using proven, off-the-shelf processes tailored for waste plastic streams—turns the plastic waste problem into a scalable opportunity that will redefine how we think about waste.