US Patent Issued to BLUEALP INNOVATIONS on Oct. 21 for "Method and system for transferring plastic waste into a fuel having properties of diesel/heating oil" (Dutch, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,573, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to BLUEALP INNOVATIONS B.V. (Groot-Ammers, Netherlands).

"Method and system for transferring plastic waste into a fuel having properties of diesel/heating oil" was invented by Teunis Christiaan Van Der Ree (Groot-Ammers, Netherlands) and Gerold Weser (Rutihof/Baden, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for recovering hydrocarbons from plastic wastes, in particular polyolefin-rich waste, by means of purely thermolytic cracking without the use of catalysts, comprising melting the plastic waste in two heating devices (3) and (4), wherein a recycle stream derive...