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House. Commenting on the facility, Dr Andrew
Odjo, Chief Executive Officer at Clean Planet
Technologies, said: “Our process first heats the
waste plastic with a chemical reaction to turn it
into a liquid, rather than burning it.”
“This is then treated with our patented process
to remove impurities and create SAF that meets
stringent commercial aviation specifications.” As all technologies which are currently used inde-
part of the process, waste plastics are pre-pro-
cessed and shredded to a uniform size before pendently at commercial scale. Dr Katerina Gar-
yfalou, Chief Operating Officer at Clean Planet
being fed into one of the centre’s two pyrolysis
units. Clean Planet Technologies says the larg- Technologies, commented: “The Sustainability
Innovation Centre is set up to demonstrate our
est unit is capable of processing up to one tonne
of plastic per day. patented waste-plastics-to-SAF process at pi-
lot scale, supporting fuel testing, validation and
The fundamentals of the process (pyrolysis, pu- progression.”
rification, distillation and hydroprocessing) are
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