HydroPlas Tech
Many waste plastic items such as polythene bags are often not taken up by traditional recyclers due to low/non recyclability. Our approach is to target such end-of-life hydrocarbon products and recycle them on a molecular level where we can extract the hydrogen and carbon raw materials to form high value commodities and materials such as Graphene and Hydrogen.
New Industry And Energy
New materials and substances
1-2 years
India, Bangalore will be the initial focus.
Most plastic recycling occurs as it is. They take a PET bottle or some other form of plastics like HDPE and reduce them to pellets to make plastic forming raw materials. While this is viable for some kinds of homogenous plastics, it presents a huge challenge for ones that are not made for such kind of recycling like low density plastics and mixer plastic items. The traditional recycling approaches also create microplastics, which are practically intractable to recycle. Our approach is to create high value materials by confining a piece of municipal waste plastic (homogenous for POC phase) in a chamber and then altering its molecular structure using energy supplied from renewable sources such as solar to create high value carbon and hydrocarbon materials such as Graphene oxide powders, graphene composites and eventually Hydrogen gas. This gives us an advantage of bridging a gap in the plastic industry where mixed plastics often end up in dump yards polluting land and water, and in the context of India, gives us an advantage of being home grown sustainable providers of material crucial to aerospace, automotive and defense sector directly from low/free raw materials like municipal waste, thus helping tackle 2 problems at one shot.
Project Grant from BeVisioneers Fellowship, The Do School, Germany, sponsored by Mercedes-Benz
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