JFE Steel Corporation has put into commercial operation Japan's first system to recycle used vinyl chloride as a furnace material at its facility in the Tokyo-Yokohama area.
The system uses the technology that has been developed under a research project sponsored by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization and carried out in collaboration with the Vinyl Environmental the Japan PVC Environmental Affair Council, and the Plastic Waste Management Institute.
The system, which became operational in May, will have an annual processing capacity of approximately 3,000 tons by the end of this year. The commercial operation has been made possible as JFE is confident that it will be able to steadily procure used chloride from the market.
The system efficiently separates hydrogen chloride from vinyl chloride, and uses resulting solid hydrogen carbide as a coke substitute for use in a furnace, while hydrogen chloride is also collected as hydrochloric acid, which is used to wash steel plates.
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