Refinity
Ignasi Palou-Rivera currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Refinity since February 2025, with a focus on technology leadership and process technology scale-up. Alongside this role, Ignasi has been an Adjunct Faculty member at the Illinois Institute of Technology since January 2022 and previously held the positions of Executive Director and Chief Technology Officer at the RAPID Manufacturing Institute from April 2019 to February 2025, emphasizing decarbonization and petrochemicals. Ignasi's earlier experience includes serving as Chief Technology Officer and Technology Platform Director at the RAPID Manufacturing Institute, a Senior Process Engineer at LanzaTech, and a Principal Environmental Engineer at Argonne National Laboratory. Ignasi holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an Engineering degree in Chemical Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
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Refinity
We are transforming feel-good to real good With only a few exceptions, the process involved in recycling plastic waste has made economic viability simply unattainable... until now. At Refinity, we plan to commercialize a game-changing technology that converts minimally-sorted mixed plastic waste into drop-in, raw material feedstocks... at yield levels expected to not only enable broad economic viability, but also allow global scalability and true circularity. We have access to patented Fluidized Bed Process Technology that converts mixed plastic waste to hydrocarbon liquids and gases depending on the operating conditions selected. The process is proven at bench and pilot scales and operates at moderate temperatures and very short residence times. Waste plastics are uniformly and rapidly heated, allowing high yield of plastic waste to desired drop-in chemical products. ∞ Learn more at refinity.com