HOW TO TURN CAR FLUFF PROBLEM INTO AN OPPORTUNITY

Car fluff is an important problem for the industrial compartment, especially for Italy, considering the huge amount of waste produced by the automotive sector, approx. 180.000 ton/year. Although car fluff (CER 191004) is suitable for CSS-Combustible production, with destination to cement factories, a very low amount of it reaches this destination. An alternative way to transform this problem into an opportunity consists into the transformation of bioliquid after its thermochemical transformation (Reach qualified), applicable to the advanced fuel market as well as for the green bio-chemistry plants, transforming a typical destruction cost in the range of 150-200 (sic)/TON (Lombardy region, Italy, internal market data) into an income of 700(sic)/TON (internal market data), as well as the closing of the circular economy cycle. A typical car fluff quality range will be defined in order to select only suitable car fluff for the process transformation; a mass balance and a treatment scheme will demonstrate the proposed solution. A case study with economical information and basic BP completes the presentation.