Farrel Pomini Continuous Mixer A Key Ingredient In Pyrolysis Success

November 14, 2024

Ansonia, CT (November 4, 2024) … FARREL POMINI, a leader in continuous mixing systems for the polymer processing industry, announced a key partnership with Lummus Technology in developing a state-of-the-art plastic pyrolysis process.

FARREL POMINI’s Continuous Mixing Technology (FCM™, Farrel Continuous Mixer) plays an essential role in a pyrolysis process for plastics developed by Lummus. The process takes streams of post-industrial and post-consumer waste and converts them into gas, pyrolysis oil and pitch product. The FCM™ melts feedstock resins and homogenizes them under specific temperature and pressure parameters.

This innovative process starts with the Farrel Continuous Mixer, which mixes plastic waste before entering the pyrolysis section of the process. The resulting pyrolysis oil products can be further processed in traditional refining and petrochemical assets and turned into monomers for new plastics production.

The process’ unique vertical reactor design creates a continuous process that ensures the highest-quality pyrolysis with the widest range of post-use feedstocks. With no exotic metallurgy required or solid waste to manage, the process is flexible, efficient and cost-effective.

Lummus is a leading licensor of process technologies in clean fuels, renewables, petrochemicals, polymers, gas processing and supplies lifecycle services, catalysts, proprietary equipment and digitalization to customers worldwide.

Through its Green Circle business unit, Lummus provides economically and technically sound solutions to:

- process solid wastes containing plastics
- process various renewable bio-based feedstocks to value-added chemicals, polymers and fuels
- decarbonize refinery and petrochemicals assets, and
- expand production of blue hydrogen and biofuels.

“Our Continuous Mixing Technology enables this partnership to succeed thanks to the FCM™’s two non-intermeshing rotors and novel features specific to a pyrolysis process,” explained Farrel Corporation President Paul Lloyd. “The mixer can intake low bulk density feedstock, melt it with energy efficiency, and is also built robustly to handle recycled streams with contamination.”

“Our equipment is ideal for processing a wide variety of chemical and mechanical recycling applications,” he said. “We are proud to be working with companies like Lummus, who are dedicated to developing real-world solutions to solving the plastic waste problem.”

Learn more about FARREL POMINI’s Continuous Mixing Technology by visiting our FCM™ product page.

About FARREL POMINI

In 2010, Harburg-Freudenberger Maschinenbau GmbH, Farrel Corporation and Pomini Rubber & Plastics Srl integrated to form HF MIXING GROUP. A year later, FARREL POMINI was established to focus expertise in the continuous mixing equipment sector. As separate companies, Farrel Corporation and Pomini Rubber & Plastics Srl possess over 100 years of collective experience in the polymer processing industry. Today, FARREL POMINI is a global leader in the research, design and manufacture of polymer compounding equipment.

In 2024, HF MIXING GROUP and HF TireTech Group merged to form HF GROUP. For more information on FARREL POMINI visit the company’s website at www.farrel-pomini.com.