Technip wins old tyres to jet fuel recycling plant

The Sunderland Waste Tyre Processing Facility improvement is located throughout the East Dock of the Port of Sunderland and is a former hydrocarbon tank farm.

Engineering building specialist Technip has secured the job to construct the brand new plant, which can have the capability to course of as much as 73,000 tonnes of end-of-life tyres a 12 months into round 24,000t of recovered carbon black (rCB) in addition to as much as 32,000t of liquid merchandise, together with liquid gas.

Operator Norwegian-firm Wastefront mentioned it will be the UK’s first “totally round tyre-to-fuel plant” because it is ready to refine used tyres into oil, after which sustainable aviation gas (SAF).

Amenities like Wastefront’s deliberate Sunderland plant are important to assembly the UK’s SAF mandate, which got here into impact on 1 January 2025, requiring not less than 10% of all jet gas utilized in flights departing the UK to come back from sustainable feedstocks by 2030, rising to 22% by 2040.

Vianney Valès, CEO of Wastefront, mentioned the plant will likely be inbuilt phases, beginning with one module producing 8,000 tonnes of oil yearly and ultimately increasing to 4 modules with a complete capability of 32,000 tonnes per 12 months.

By 2030, Wastefront plans to function 4 large-scale vegetation, collectively producing 128,000 tonnes of oil yearly.

This may feed right into a centralised SAF facility able to changing 70% of this oil into SAF, yielding roughly 90,000 tonnes of SAF per 12 months.