MUMBAI, India, July 25 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517066280 A) filed by Borealis Ag, Vienna, on July 11, for 'plastic recycling process.'

Inventor(s) include Martinez Joaristi, Alberto; Mota Salinas, Ana Lilia; and Vaskikari, Elisa.

The application for the patent was published on July 25, under issue no. 30/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A process for the treatment of a mixed plastic waste comprising: (I) pyrolyzing a mixed plastic waste in a pyrolysis reactor at a temperature of 250 to 700 C and a pressure of 1.0 to 100 bar to form a pyoil; (II) directly transferring the pyoil to a hydrotreatment unit, optionally via a filter, and subjecting said pyoil to hydrotreatment with a catalyst in the presence of hydrogen at a temperature of 250 to 700 C and a pressure of 1.0 to 100 bar to form a hydrotreated pyoil; (III) recycling a portion of the hydrotreated pyoil directly from the hydrotreatment unit to the pyrolysis reactor."

The patent application was internationally filed on Dec. 22, 2023, under International application No.PCT/EP2023/087752.

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