Ocean Plastic Waste-to-Fuel System PlastiFuel Trials in Indonesia: Converting Ocean Garbage Directly to Ship Fuel
The Ocean Cleanup Foundation's ocean plastic-to-fuel system PlastiFuel trials in Jakarta Bay, Indonesia, pyrolyzing recovered ocean plastic waste into marine diesel at 10 tons per day processing capacity.
The Ocean Cleanup Foundation announced on December 24 that its ocean plastic waste-to-fuel system PlastiFuel has begun trial operations in Jakarta Bay, Indonesia. The system converts ocean-recovered plastic waste into ISO-standard marine diesel through catalytic pyrolysis, processing 10 tons of plastic waste daily and producing approximately 8 tons of ship fuel.
PlastiFuel's process includes four steps: plastic sorting, shredding, catalytic pyrolysis and refining. Pyrolysis temperature is controlled at 450°C using zeolite catalysts to break long-chain plastic polymers into diesel-range hydrocarbons.
Ocean Cleanup founder Boyan Slat said PlastiFuel achieves the dual goals of "ocean garbage cleanup" and "clean fuel production." Indonesia has the world's second-largest ocean plastic pollution, and PlastiFuel provides an economically viable plastic recycling pathway for the region.
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