Patent CA-2973210-A1 (CA)
Title: Process for producing liquid fuel from waste hydrocarbon and/or organic material, managing system thereof
Inventor: BERTRAND LOUIS
IPC: F23G5/027
Filed: 2017-07-13
Abstract: Process for producing liquid fuels from starting material, that is organic material, preferably in a form of agglomerates, said starting material, preferably with a reduced content in water, metal, glass and/or rocks, being thermally liquified and further dewatered; the thereby obtained liquid fraction being thereafter submitted to a pyrolysis treatment, performed preferably in a rotating kiln and resulting in a solid gas fraction exiting the rotating kiln, said solid gas fraction allowing the recovering of a liquid fuels after a controlled vapours solid separation treatment. Rotating kilns, for use in the processes, having, at one end of the reactor, an extension that is configured to be at least partially heated and to constitutes the exit of the solid-gas mixtures produced in the rotating reactor. Uses of the processes for treating municipal waste material (MSW) and/or biomass and/or plastic and/or tires and use for treating MSW and/or organic matter and/or used oils and to prepare: a fuel, or a component in a blended fuel, such as a home heating oil, a low sulphur marine fuel, a diesel engine fuel, a static diesel engine fuel, power generation fuel, farm machinery fuel, off road and on road diesel fuel; and/or a cetane index enhancer; and/or a drilling mud base oil or component; and/or a solvent or component of a solvent; and/or a diluent for heavy fuels, bunker or bitumen; and/or a light lubricant or component of a lubricating oil; and/or a cleaner or a component in oil base cleaners; and/or a flotation oil component; and/or a wide range diesel; and/or a clarified oil; and/or a component in asphalt blends; and/or a soil amendment; and/or an additive to animal feed; and/or an insulator; and/or a humidity regulator; and/or an air decontaminator; and/or a protective element against electromagnetic radiation; and/or an element to decontaminate soil and/or water; and/or a biomass additive; and/or a biogas slurry treatment; and/or an element for paints and/or food colorants; and/or a detoxification agent; and/or a carrier for active pharmaceutical ingredients; and/or an exhaust filter; and/or a semiconductor; and/or a therapeutic bath additive; and/or a skin cream additive; and/or a soap additive; and/or a substitute for lignite; and/or a filling for mattresses and/or pillows; and/or an ingredient in food; and/or a bio-oil for combustion; and/or chemicals such as acids, alcohols, aromatics, aldehydes, esters, ketones, sugars, phenols, guaiacols, syringols, furans, alkenes; and/or emulsification agent for fuels; and/or a feed for steam reforming. Managing system allowing continuous optimisation of a process for producing fuel from waste hydrocarbon and/or organic material, said system comprising at least one captor for measuring a process parameter that is preferably at least representative of the content of the feed stock entering the pyrolysis zone, that is preferably at least one of the following parameters : humidity in the agglomerates; rate of cellulosic material present in the feed stream before entering the rotating kiln; brix index and/or temperature of the feeding stream in a liquid or in a semi liquid stage and or heterogeneous state before entering the rotating kiln; temperature and/or pressure in the vessel and/or in the rotating kiln; a storage unit for storing data collected by sensors of the system; and a calculation unit configured to adjust solid content present in the feed stream to the vessel, and/or to adjust solid content in the feed stream to the rotating kiln.