{"id":167358,"date":"2025-09-09T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=167358"},"modified":"2025-09-09T10:33:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T08:33:47","slug":"redefining-fuels-and-chemicals-tcat-8-begins-delivering-low-carbon-aromatics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/redefining-fuels-and-chemicals-tcat-8-begins-delivering-low-carbon-aromatics\/","title":{"rendered":"Redefining Fuels and Chemicals: TCat-8 Begins Delivering Low-Carbon Aromatics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"657\" src=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2025\/09\/68a43ec3030e330feefd49c3_1-1024x657.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-167375\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5585996955859969;width:721px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2025\/09\/68a43ec3030e330feefd49c3_1-1024x657.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2025\/09\/68a43ec3030e330feefd49c3_1-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2025\/09\/68a43ec3030e330feefd49c3_1-150x96.jpg 150w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2025\/09\/68a43ec3030e330feefd49c3_1-768x493.jpg 768w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2025\/09\/68a43ec3030e330feefd49c3_1-400x257.jpg 400w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2025\/09\/68a43ec3030e330feefd49c3_1-380x245.jpg 380w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2025\/09\/68a43ec3030e330feefd49c3_1.jpg 1439w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u00a9 Anelllotech<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Following the successful completion of 2,000+ hours of Plas-TCat\u00ae process development trials, our Texas team is off to the races, converting Green Circle Certified post-consumer plastic waste into toluene-rich aromatic hydrocarbons for low-carbon intensity, high octane fuel blendstocks used in motorsports and aviation applications.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TCat-8 is now on track to produce:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83e\uddea\ud83e\uddea 4,000 liters\/month of toluene and mixed xylenes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83e\uddea\ud83e\uddea 2,000 liters\/month of benzene for conversion to cyclohexane<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When blended with other 2nd generation products, these fuels deliver &gt;65% greenhouse gas emissions reduction compared to fossil-based counterparts, a major step forward in redefining what\u2019s possible in sustainable chemicals and fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This milestone brings us closer to delivering sustainable performance at scale. Stay tuned as we continue to ramp up and innovate the world of renewable aromatics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u267b Here\u2019s to the first of many successful weeks \u2013 and to a cleaner, greener tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the successful completion of 2,000+ hours of Plas-TCat\u00ae process development trials, our Texas team is off to the races, converting Green Circle Certified post-consumer plastic waste into toluene-rich aromatic hydrocarbons for low-carbon intensity, high octane fuel blendstocks used in motorsports and aviation applications. TCat-8 is now on track to produce: \ud83e\uddea\ud83e\uddea 4,000 liters\/month of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":167375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"We\u2019re thrilled to announce that our TCAT-8\u00ae facility has officially entered its first week of commercial production!","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[13912,6843,5714,10416],"supplier":[2188],"class_list":["post-167358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-bioaromatics","tag-biochemicals","tag-biofuels","tag-circulareconomy","supplier-anellotech-corp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167358"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=167358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}