Process and apparatus for producing hydrocarbons from city garbage and/or organic waste materials

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Weight: 181 KB
• Volume: 43
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0140-6701
• DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6701(02)80195-3

✦ Synopsis

In Japanese) The title method comprises decomposing heavy oil with water and alkali in a supercritical reactor maintaining the supercritical state of water to form light oil, hydrocarbon-series gas, metal oxide, alkali salts and supercritical water, extracting the decomposition product by maintaining the subcritical state of water or a temperature and pressure below that to extract the hydrocarbon-series gas, light oil and water, separating the extracts to a hydrocarbon gas, light oil and water by gas-liquid separation, and separating the light oil and water by an oil-water separator.