Patent ID: 8753854

Claim:
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 the combustible fluid feedstock from step (b) or (c) to apparatus for delivering a combustible fluid feedstock to fuel production facility; (e) generating numerical information relating to the first amount of combustible fluid feedstock or crude biogas comprising information representing at least 3 parameters selected from: (i) the type of renewable fuel that it is; (ii) year in which the combustible fluid feedstock was produced; (iii) a registration number associated with the producer or importer of the combustible fluid feedstock; and (iv) a serial number associated with a batch of the combustible fluid feedstock; and (f) withdrawing for use at a fuel production facility a second amount of combustible fluid feedstock approximately equal to the first amount of combustible fluid feedstock; (g) processing at the fuel production facility the second amount of combustible fluid feedstock to produce renewable hydrogen; and (h) 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.