据烃加工网9月10日报道，Shell Ventures BV 和 BlueAlp Holding BV 建立了战略合作伙伴关系，以开发、扩展和部署BlueAlp的塑料废物转化为化工原料的技术。该技术将难以回收的塑料废物转化为可用于制造可持续化学品的回收原料（即热解油）。 作为协议的一部分，壳牌收购了BlueAlp 21.25%的股权。
壳牌化工与产品执行副总裁Robin Mooldijk表示，凭借BlueAlp的创新技术和壳牌的规模和经验，我们可以推进塑料垃圾回收技术，以满足客户对可持续化学品日益增长的需求。这一合作伙伴关系是壳牌为实现到2025年在全球化工厂每年回收100万吨塑料垃圾的目标所采取的重要步骤之一。我们还在整个价值链中努力为我们的客户提供高质量循环产品的安全供应，包括与行业合作伙伴合作推动收集和分类塑料废物所需的基础设施的发展。
根据协议，壳牌和BlueAlp将成立一家合资公司，在荷兰新建两个转化装置，预计每年转化超过3万吨塑料废物。这些装置计划于2023年投入运营，并将100%的裂解油作为原料供应给壳牌的Moerdijk和Rhineland裂解装置。壳牌正在探索在亚洲部署另外两个装置的授权，以供应新加坡壳牌能源和化工园区。
BlueAlp首席技术官克里斯·范德雷（Chris van der Ree）表示，BlueAlp的目标是将塑料废料有效地转化为一种可用且经济的产品，我们开发了一种令人振奋的创新技术。有壳牌作为战略合作伙伴，相信BlueAlp有很大的机会成长为热解市场的全球领导者。我们当前的重点是提高技术的当前加工能力，然后将我们的技术授权给第三方。我希望这将有助于世界各地的社区将难以回收的塑料废物更好地利用。
BlueAlp的技术已经发展到商业规模。壳牌位于阿姆斯特丹的技术团队现在将与BlueAlp合作，进一步提高和扩大该技术的回收能力，以回收更多的塑料垃圾。原料纯度不一致也阻碍了大量热解油的生产。壳牌计划部署自己的技术，以提高其资产中热解油的纯度。这些技术的发展对于通过将难以回收的塑料废物转化为可持续的化学品来实现循环至关重要。
此前，该公司于2021年8月在Moerdijk石化工厂成功进行了使用裂解油试验；自2019年11月以来，壳牌在美国的Norco石化总厂增加了回收原料的使用。
BlueAlp的其他股东包括荷兰家族拥有的Mourik、Rumali和Den Hartog公司，以及比利时Renasci公司。
郝芬 译自 烃加工网
原文如下：
Shell invests in plastic waste-to-chemicals technology company
Shell Ventures BV and BlueAlp Holding BV formed a strategic partnership to develop, scale and deploy BlueAlp’s plastic waste to chemical feedstock technology. The technology transforms plastic waste which is tough to recycle into a recycled feedstock (i.e. pyrolysis oil) that can be used to make sustainable chemicals. Shell has taken a 21.25% equity stake in BlueAlp as part of the agreement.
“With BlueAlp’s innovative technology and Shell’s size and experience we can advance the plastic waste recycling technology needed to meet growing customer demand for sustainable chemicals. This partnership is align="justify"> “We are also working across the value chain to provide our customers with a secure supply of high-quality circular products including collaborating with industry partners to drive the development of the infrastructure needed to collect and sort plastic waste.”
Under the agreement, Shell and BlueAlp will form a joint-venture company to build two new conversion units in The Netherlands, which are forecast to convert more than 30 KT of plastic waste per year. The units are planned to be operational in 2023 and will supply 100% of their pyrolysis oil as feedstock to Shell’s Moerdijk and Rhineland crackers. Shell is exploring licensing a further two units for deployment within Asia to supply the Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Singapore.
“BlueAlp’s aim is to efficiently transform plastic waste into a useable and economic product, and we have developed an exciting and innovative technology. With Shell as a strategic partner, I believe BlueAlp has a great opportunity to grow into a global leader in the pyrolysis market” said Chris van der Ree, CTO of BlueAlp. “Our immediate focus is to increase the technology’s current processing capacity and then license our technology to third-parties. This I expect will help communities worldwide put hard to recycle plastic waste to better use.”
BlueAlp’s technology has already been developed to a commercial scale. Shell’s technology team, based in Amsterdam, will now work with BlueAlp to further improve and scale-up the technology’s capacity to recycle larger volumes of plastic waste. Production of larger volumes of pyrolysis oil are also hindered by inconsistent purity of feedstocks. Shell plans to deploy its own technology to upgrade the purity of pyrolysis oil at its assets. These technology developments are pivotal to achieving circularity by turning hard to recycle plastic waste into sustainable chemicals.
With today’s announcement Shell will be able to support more of its customers achieve their sustainability goals. It follows a successful pilot using pyrolysis oil at Moerdijk petrochemicals plant in August 2021; and the increased use of recycled feed at Shell’s Norco petrochemical complex in the U.S. since November 2019.
BlueAlp’s other shareholders include Dutch family owned Mourik, Rumali and Den Hartog companies and the Belgium Renasci company.
