Report 2/2: Refinery integration and treatment routes for tire pyrolysis oil

Report Contents

This report contains the following items:

• How tire pyrolysis oil (TPO) can be integrated into conventional refinery and petrochemical operations, including cut-based routing, pretreatment requirements, upgrading steps, and practical co-processing concepts.
• What defines refinery-ready TPO: feedstock characterization, impurity and contaminant risks (such as sulfur, nitrogen, halogens, silicon, metals, solids, and instability), and the analytical parameters needed for acceptance.
• Which refinery and petrochemical units are most suitable for TPO integration, including distillation/fractionation, hydrotreating, mild hydrocracking, FCC co-processing, steam cracker interfaces, and marine fuel blending routes.
• What upgrading and treatment routes are the most credible for value creation, including filtration, adsorbents and guard beds, stabilization hydrotreatment, deep hydrotreating, hydrocracking, decontamination, and chemicals-first BTX recovery strategies.
• How product quality, certification, and market access shape the most realistic end-use pathways for TPO, including diesel blend components, marine fuels, petrochemical feedstocks, carbon black oil substitutes, and SAF-related refinery pathways.

Who Benefits

• Refineries and petrochemical operators evaluating whether and how TPO can be accepted into existing process units without compromising catalyst life, operability, or product pool quality.
• TPO suppliers, pyrolysis project developers, and technology providers needing refinery-relevant guidance on feed quality, conditioning steps, upgrading needs, and realistic downstream offtake routes.
• Commercial, technical, and strategy teams assessing where TPO creates the highest value: fuels, chemicals, marine fuel applications, or integrated refinery-petrochemical concepts.
• Sustainability, certification, and regulatory stakeholders working on circular feedstock positioning, mass-balance systems, SAF relevance, and the commercial implications of RFS, LCFS, RED III, RTFO, and related frameworks.

Why This Report Matters

TPO is not a drop-in refinery feed. Its successful integration depends on understanding contaminants, boiling range, stability, hydrogen demand, and the practical limits of refinery and petrochemical units. This report gives stakeholders a structured, decision-oriented view of where TPO fits, what treatment it needs, and which end-use routes are technically credible and commercially defensible.

Price

For pricing, delivery details, or to discuss a custom advisory scope based on your specific TPO quality, asset configuration, or target market, please contact Weibold.