Waste to X
Transforming waste into valuable fuels, chemicals and materials
How Can Waste Become a Resource?
- Turns non-recyclable waste and residual biomass into valuable syngas
- Enables multiple pathways to circular fuels, chemicals and materials
- Flexible and modular configuration across feedstocks and capacities
- Integrates with multiple downstream conversion technologies
- Connects waste management with low-carbon industrial production
- Compatible with carbon capture and hydrogen integration
A significant share of urban and industrial waste cannot be effectively recycled through conventional mechanical or chemical processes due to contamination, mixed composition or material degradation. These residual streams are often sent to landfill or incineration, resulting in lost resources and additional emissions.
Waste-to-X creates a different pathway: transforming non-recyclable waste and residual biomass into valuable feedstocks for the production of fuels, chemicals and materials.
By connecting waste management with industrial production, Nextchem helps turn challenging waste streams into new resources while supporting the transition towards more circular and lower-carbon value chains.
From Waste to New Value Chains
Different industries require different products, but they can start from the same versatile intermediate: syngas.
Nextchem's Waste-to-X solution converts non-recyclable waste and residual biomass into clean syngas, which can be integrated with downstream processes to produce products including methanol, ethanol, hydrogen, ammonia and sustainable fuels.
This flexibility enables Waste-to-X configurations to address different feedstocks, plant capacities and final products, creating a bridge between waste management and the fuels, chemicals and materials industries.
Applications can include:
- Circular methanol
- Sustainable Aviation Fuel
- Hydrogen
- Ethanol
- Ammonia
- Circular chemicals and materials
Nextchem Circular Technologies
At the core of our Waste-to-X solutions is NX Circular™, Nextchem's proprietary gasification platform designed to convert non-recyclable waste and residual biomass into clean syngas.
Through high-temperature oxygen-blown gasification followed by advanced syngas cleaning and conditioning, NX Circular™ creates a versatile intermediate that can be integrated with multiple downstream conversion routes.
Its modular and flexible design enables different plant configurations according to available feedstocks, capacity and target products, providing an industrial pathway to unlock value from waste that cannot otherwise be recycled.
NX Circular™ can also be integrated with carbon capture or hydrogen co-feeding, further expanding the opportunities to reduce the carbon intensity of downstream products.
Waste-to-X producing RCF and/or RFNBO certified Methanol, Ethanol and SAF trough waste and biomass gasification
Whether your goal is to improve recycling performance, comply with EU waste regulations, or decarbonize your polymer value chain, Nextchem provides:
- Technology licensing
- Process design packages (PDP)
- Proprietary equipment
- Digital solutions
- Post-PDP services
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