Polyflow, Ohio School to Build Waste-to-Fuel Processor (with video)

Allan Gerlat, News Editor

February 21, 2012

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Polyflow LLC and Youngstown State University (YSU) are developing a waste-to-fuel processor project.

Akron-based Polyflow will build a 2.5-ton capacity semiwork processor, initially to demonstrate the consistency of Polyflow’s new process, the Ohio university said on its website. The construction will take 18 months.

The Ohio state controlling board has approved the release of  $1 million in Third Frontier money to Polyflow and $600,000 to YSU for the project.

Polyflow developed a technology that allows recycling of mixed dirty plastics and rubber waste. The technology is able to produce gasoline and diesel fuel.

 YSU is collaborating on the project and will use its funding to establish a fuel analysis and testing laboratory.

About the Author

Allan Gerlat

News Editor, Waste360

Allan Gerlat joined the Waste360 staff in September 2011 as news editor. He was the editor of Waste & Recycling News for the first 16 years of its history, and under his guidance the publication won 27 national and regional awards.

Before Waste & Recycling News, Allan worked at another Crain Communications publication, Rubber & Plastics News, which covers rubber product manufacturing. He began with the publication as associate editor and eventually became managing editor, a position he held for nine years.

Allan is a graduate of Ohio University, where he earned a BS in journalism. He is based in Sagamore Hills, in northeast Ohio.

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