Press release -
Update on Quantafuel’s Skive plant
With reference to the notice on 6th of February regarding the temporary shutdown of Skive production, our inspection has revealed damage on the steel cone connecting the burner chamber with the flue gas heating box of the reactor. We have now initiated repair work and target to be back in production within mid-March.
In close cooperation with third party experts, Quantafuel has now concluded on replacing the damaged steel cone with an improved solution. One burner chamber has already been transported to the selected subcontractor, and the next chamber will follow shortly.
“We’ve had a period with high production and uptime, so the timing of this temporary shut-down is very unfortunate. On the other hand, I am pleased that the issue can be resolved without significant costs. I would like to underline that this issue is not related to Quantafuel’s pyrolysis process or technology,” says Quantafuel’s CEO Lars Rosenløv.
“Our team in Skive has handled this issue very well and I am pleased that we, together with third party experts, have initiated the repair work so quickly. We will use the downtime to perform preventive maintenance requiring a cold process,” says Rosenløv.
Additional technical information:
The burner chamber and the connected flue gas system form the main heating elements for the process. The rotating pyrolysis reactor is surrounded and heated by the hot flue gas. There is no direct contact between the hydrocarbon gases formed in the reactors’ pyrolysis process and the flue gas.
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Quantafuel is a Norwegian technology-based recycling company with the purpose of ending wasteful and unsustainable handling of our planet's resources. Drawing on more than ten years of development, Quantafuel converts waste plastics back into low-carbon synthetic oil products replacing virgin oil products. Quantafuel aims to rapidly build up production capacity on a global scale and to have a meaningful impact on one of our time's most pressing environmental challenges.
