Jingxiu Xie awarded ChemistryNL-subsidy for PRIME-GAS project with BioBTX

How can effluent gases from plastic recycling be better managed to produce more valuable chemicals? The PRIME-GAS project (Plastic Recycling with Integrated Management of Effluent Gas) brings together Jingxiu Xie of the Engineering and Technology institute Groningen (ENTEG) and BioBTX to address this challenge. The project will develop an integrated effluent gas management strategy for BioBTX’s Integrated Cascading Catalytic Pyrolysis (ICCP) technology.

PRIME-GAS will pursue two complementary research lines to increase BTX yield by 10 wt.% compared with the baseline process. The first focuses on suppressing methane formation, as methane cannot be upgraded to BTX (benzene, toluene and xylenes). The second aims to introduce additional catalytic functions to convert other gaseous products into BTX. Together, these approaches are expected to enable cleaner operations and more sustainable plastic recycling.

The project has a total budget of €730,000 and receives €499,000 in subsidies from ChemistryNL. The funding was awarded under the PPS-I 2026 call of TKI Green Chemistry and Circularity, within the theme Transforming the Dutch Chemical Industry towards Sustainable Production.

For more information, see the PPS-I 2026 announcement of awarded projects and the overview of funded projects.