New Pyrum Innovations reactor already at 75%

Pyrum Innovations is working to bring two new reactors into operation at its main Dillingen plant in Germany’s Saarland, trebling the facility’s capacity. It began a second test run of the first of these, reactor 2 (TAD 2), on 30 January and reports “initial successes” towards the reactor’s commissioning.

Within a week, Pyrum gradually increased the reactor’s throughout to 75 per cent of the throughout it anticipates during future series production. This means that TAD2 can already process industrial quantities of end-of-life tyres. It has already produced more than 30,000 litres of oil and this is now being sampled in the laboratory before being delivered to BASF within the next two weeks.

“We are all incredibly proud of this result,” states Pascal Klein, chief executive officer of Pyrum Innovations AG. “Thanks to the perfect preparation of our team, we managed to bring the reactor to a stable throughput of 75 per cent within a very short time – instead of within three months as planned. If there were any doubts about our technology, we can now dispel them: from a technical point of view, nothing stands in the way of our rollout. The technology worked straight away. And thanks to the loan from BASF, we have also overcome the biggest obstacles from a financial perspective.”

The plan is now to maintain the throughput in TAD 2 at 75 to 80 per cent over the next few weeks and to optimise the processes between the individual parts of the plant. TAD 3 is also to be ramped up to 80 per cent by the end of March 2024.