Patent ID: 9040271
Filing Date: 2015-05-26
Classification: C01B,C07C,C10G,C10L,C12P,G06Q,Y02E,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A method of transforming waste organic material to produce a liquid transportation or heating fuel comprising: (a) subjecting waste organic material to anaerobic digestion by microorganisms in a biogas production facility that incorporates apparatus to collect the microbially generated biogas; (b) collecting an amount of crude biogas from the biogas production facility; (c) removing impurities from the crude biogas to yield a combustible fluid feedstock; (d) introducing a first amount of combustible fluid feedstock from step (b) or (c) to apparatus for delivering a combustible fluid feedstock to a fuel production facility; (e) withdrawing for use at a fuel production facility a second amount of combustible fluid feedstock; (f) processing at the fuel production facility the second amount of combustible fluid feedstock to produce renewable hydrogen; (g) producing a third amount of liquid transportation or heating fuel by a process that comprises combining renewable hydrogen derived from the second amount of combustible fluid feedstock with a desulfurized, crude oil derived liquid hydrocarbon in a reactor under conditions to hydrogenate the liquid hydrocarbon with the renewable hydrogen; and (h) generating or causing generation of a renewable fuel credit.