Pyrum completes first ‘maxcap’ trial at new tire recycling line

Dillingen/Saar, Germany – Waste tire pyrolysis company Pyrum Innovations AG has completed the first so-called ‘maxcap’ test, a trial run at 100% capacity, at a new recycling line at its facility in Dillingen/Saar.

During the week ended 4 Oct, the solids throughput of the third and most recently installed line (TAD 3) was slowly increased to full capacity and maintained for one week, Pyrum reported 10 Oct.

This marked the conclusion of four weeks of continuous operation, with maximum throughput at the end, followed by a scheduled maintenance shutdown.

During the first maximum capacity test, the solid part of the plant reached 100% of the designed maximum output.

Oil and gas production reached 95% as a blockage in the quench pump, which transports the oil and gas vapour from the reactor to the condensers, held production at 95%.

Pyrum went on to point out that in normal operation, a reserve pump is available for such cases, which was not used for the first maxcap test operation.

With the trial run completed, the tire recycler is a step closer to the full ramp-up of the facility, which has been expanded with the installation of two news lines (TAD 2 & 3), to process 20 kilotonnes per annum of end-of-life tires.

The next maxcap test is planned for the TAD 2 line in the next two weeks, continuing for a period of three to four weeks.

Full capacity is then to be achieved in both rCB production and oil and gas production, while TAD 1 and TAD 3 will continue to operate, Pyrum said.

The aim, said the company, is to operate both new lines stably at 100% capacity by the end of 2024.