Circular Solutions/Recycling > Technologies

CELLiCON G2 Technology for polycotton recycling and green cellulose fiber production

Room Bira
Thursday, 09/12/2024, 09:50 - 10:15

- CELLiCON has developed a technology platform based on molten salt hydrates to isolate cellulose from waste streams - The solvent used can also be applied to process recovered cellulose into new fibers via wet spinning - Combined it allows for mixed textile-to-textile recycling, and many other interesting applications

Speakers
Jorrit de Jong (CELLiCON)
Co-Author
Simone Basha Beshai (CELLiCON)
- Current emerging extraction technologies of cellulose from mixed textile waste streams are based on complex, time consuming, energy and water intensive processes. - CELLiCON has developed a unique, cost effective, proprietary technology platform to isolate high-quality cellulose from cellulose-based feedstocks: G2 Technology, based on molten salt hydrates. - Due to its simplicity and mild operating conditions, CELLiCON’s G2 technology offers high quality products with a low environmental footprint at low CAPEX/OPEX. - The recovered cellulose has many promising outlets: next to dissolving pulp for fibers, it can be used for performance enhancement in foams, coatings and composites. - Crucially, the solvent used for fractionation is also suitable for direct wet spinning of fibers, enabling textile-to-textile recycling within the same technology platform. - In our presentation, we will dive into the broad range of exciting opportunities that CELLiCON’s G2 technology platform offers, with a focus on latest results in polycotton recycling and fiber spinning.