Recycling Waste Solvents: a need for the industry and the environment

The treatment and recycling of organic solvents is an important topic in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry as large amounts of solvents are generated annually. In most cases, solvents require strict hazardous waste management. High-quality solvents are valuable and in most cases, is suited for material recycling applications. Low-quality solvents on the other hand have no added value as material but can be recovered to use as an alternative fuel for thermal treatment so these are suited for energy recovery application.
Recycling and recovering solvents have large ecological benefits. So for both types of solvents, high and low quality ones, Indaver has the right solution and installations.

Indaver Solvents: focus on recycling & manufacturing

With Indaver Solvents and its different technologies such as pervaporation, fractionation, and distillation, Indaver provides large-scale solutions for solvent recycling. 

Indaver Solvents can rely on several own recycling facilities across Europe which provide a recycling alternative for solvent waste that today is being used and/or exported for thermal treatment. With Indaver Solvents, we are investing signifcantly to raise the efficiency, capacity and sustainability of the recycling plants in Middlewich (UK) and Antwerp (BE) to an even higher level. The optimizations are focused on performance, quality and safety so we can manage, handle and process more complex flows.

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Key benefits of solvent recycling

  • reclamation and return of treated solvent (Toll Manufacture)
  • alternative supply from the virgin solvent market for the supply of solvent
  • some waste previously sent for incineration can now be recycled
  • CO2 avoidance and overall lower environmental impact
  • recycled solvents are valuable raw materials for industry
  • direct contribution to the circular economy
  • lower costs

Our Solvent Recycling locations: centralised solutions

Solvent recycling in UK

This site, based in Middlewich, 50 km from Manchester, consists of a solvent recovery plant of 30,000 tonnes per annum. 

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Solvent recycling in Belgium

Valuable solvents processed at Indaver's facility in Antwerp to extract precious metals from liquids, can be further purified and reused for industry.

On-site, dedicated solvent recycling facilities: decentralised (BOO) solutions

Indaver Solvents is well aware that the development of dedicated solvent recycling facilities on the customer’s site can be justifiable depending on the volume and value of the recoverable solvent(s).

On-site facilities have several advantages on top of the benefits of solvent recycling in general such as:

  • reduction in transport as no more trucks entering and leaving the customer’s site
  • improved safety as no more connecting & disconnecting trucks to tank farms
  • cost reduction because of fewer transport costs
  • less waste being sent off-site

Indaver Solvents is able to support and advise in all areas related to the development of such new, dedicated facilities:

FINANCE  -  DESIGN  -  BUILDING  -  OPERATIONS  -  MAINTENANCE

Our solvent recovery installations

Low-quality solvents that are not fit for solvent recycling, can be pre-treated to be used as a substitute fuel in cement kilns. These solvent recovery facilities (SRF) are located in Dublin (IRE) and Terneuzen (NL).

Solvent recovery in Ireland

The 20,000 tonnes per annum Solvent Recovery Facility in Dublin port is part of Indaver's Dublin Port Hazardous Waste Facility. 

Solvent recovery in The Netherlands

The Solvent Recovery Facility in the port of Terneuzen in The Netherlands is part of Indaver's Industrial Hazardous Waste Transfer station.