Necessary INFORMATION
Before beginning a project, there are several questions to answer:
(Done by Rohrer International GmbH, Partner of Alphakat – the Inventor)
INVENTOR-Producer-Seller:
Alphakat - Company
Alphakat GmbH focuses on:
• engineering, production, development, R+D, electric and electronic technologies
• plants featuring the use of an advanced catalyst
Our main product is a plant that converts waste to fuel with a process copied from the natural process of crude oil production
• the plant uses a catalyst with the same structure, outputs the same product and the same environmentally benign process
• the plant executes this process much faster since the structure of the catalyst is advanced (fine-molecule, ion-exchange and 100% crystallized) and the process takes place in an oil cycle instead of a water cycle, with a turbine rather than in a sediment.
• the result is that a conversion that took 300.000.000 years in nature happens in just 3 minutes.
Alphakat is also active in other sectors of the energy and environmental fields, working with catalytic processes for cleaning combustion, isothermic heat-pipe reactors, low pressure hydrogenation, ash-recycling and development engineering.
Alphakat partners on projects that can provide a comprehensive solution to the environmental problems of waste recycling. Replacing exhaust gas with fuel produced by our plant also provides a solution to the problem of energy shortage. No other fuel has such a high calorific value and is so easy to store than the clean diesel generated by our plant. We offer a solution to environmental problems that is also an excellent means of generating fuel that is readily stored and distributed.
Nature is showing us the way to solve our energy and environmental issues at once.
History
• After long term research in the field of catalytic reaction in hot oil atmosphere the break trough of the synthetic production of diesel from waste in 3 minutes reaction time in a high speed turbulence system.
• Production of high quality diesel for nearly all organic residue in quality level higher than the available quality.
• Production costs of 0,23 €/l (catalyst cost of 0,03 €/l) in the small size reactor KDV 500 and lower in a bigger size.
• No environmental impact with the ion-exchange catalyst with separation of the poison substances in form of salt and crystallized adsorber.
• Environmental protection as a basis for fuel production and creation of employment.
Milestones in the Development of the Process by the Inventor
1971
Invention of special catalytic converters (cracking carburettors)
1972
New environmental-friendly fuels and conversion process (Mobil Oil process)
1981
Start of oil conversion development (Orinoco)
1998/ 1999
Test plant in Puchan / Korea
2000
Plant at Neuensalz
2004
KDV 500 Monterrey / Mexico
2005
KDV with turbine
2006
Spain / Italy
2007
Bulgaria
2008
Hoyerswerda KDV 500
2009
Tarragona KDV 1.000
2009
Start to produce KDV 5.000 (5 t/h)
Vision
The main purpose of the KDV [Katalytische Drucklose Verölung – catalytic low pressure depolymerisation] process is to protect the atmosphere. Rather than gases, the process produces a liquid that can be stored without contact with the atmosphere. This was achieved when oil was created in nature, and it seems to be the only way to keep CO2 separate from the atmosphere. The direct sequestration of CO2 underground is not only limited with respect to the amount that can be stored but also presents a deadly hazard, as CO2 escaping in an uncontrolled way could then spread over the planet like a deadly pall.
The potential applications of this KDV process in environmental technology include:
- Waste disposal technology
- Use of agricultural waste
- Reduction of CO2 when planting steppes and, later on, deserts
- Industrial waste disposal
- Better use of oil, oil sands, tar oilfields, peat, heavy oil sources and lignite
and
- the elimination of refuse storage sites, including bitumen lakes and industrial and commercial refuse landfills.
It is difficult to accurately estimate the full potential of this technology , but already today steps can be taken to realize that potential, overcoming other agendas.
Examples:
The company Covanta has ordered within the framework of a long-term contract 1,350 KDV 500 plants This will enable the company to produce 5.4 million t/a diesel oil from approximately 8% of the total US American waste.
Malaysia produces 17 million t/a palm oil. The 100 million t/a residual material generated by the 1,200 oil presses can produce via 1,200 KDV plants approx. 23 million t/a diesel oil.
The company NandanAlphakat of Hyderabad plans to plant approximately 5 areas, each of one million ha, with Jatropha on infertile steppes with the aim of reducing desert areas as well. 6 million t/a diesel oil will be produced per million ha. After deducting energy use this yields five million t/a per million ha.
Various heavy oil sources shall be used directly with 2,000 KDV and 5,000 KDV type plants, with the "refinery" producing diesel oil directly at the mineral oil sources.
Instead of gas burners and pyrolysis new refineries will be planned to use reaction turbines and catalytic depolymerisation and to apply organic additives. The gain in additional diesel oil via this technology without increasing mineral oil production has been estimated at over 700 million t/a.
From these examples, which only cover some of the applications, the considerable potential can be recognised. Moreover the fact that the plant is not only flexible, i.e. it can work today with Jatropha and tomorrow with household waste, but is independent of external energy sources and water and can be operated decentrally wherever it is needed, is a strong argument for using KDV technology.
The decentral operation yields moreover significant reductions in energy and burden on the environment as a result of the reduction in transport and transport losses.
The responsibility for the realisation of the KDV technology should be transferred to a non-profit making organisation that is in a position to tackle problems using the financial surplus arising from the use of the technology:
1. Removal of the dioxin sources by use of the waste as material and by depolymerisation.
2. Planting the steppes with the aim of planting the deserts and
hence.
3. creating the possibility of providing satisfactory living conditions outside towns and cities.
4. Equitable distribution of the many million jobs created in this way via an equitable distribution of the profits.
5. Increasing social harmony by providing employment with a sales guarantee.
At the end of the day, depolymerisation technology should also be an alternative to the shortage of resources experienced today. Why should a vehicle only use 1 l/100 km fuel if a higher consumption yields work and harmony outside the cities for the workforce of the diesel oil manufacturer?
Solutions
Producing diesel from renewable biomass and waste using a new crystalline catalyst
The situation
World supplies of crude oil are running out and their cost is spiraling upward. The future of civilization and the security of our societies depend on the production of affordable fuels that can substitute for natural crude oil. New approaches using renewable biomass and organic waste are an attractive alternative, especially when fuel can be produced through a low cost zero-emissions process. And when the process is capable of converting huge volumes of biomass and organic wastes which may include toxins, including plastics, municipal waste, sewage, used oils into diesel. Such a process is even more attractive when the conversion process can be used on site where organic wastes are produced and the diesel produced can be used on site to substitute diesel fuel, for process or building heating or to power truck fleets, company cars and industrial equipment.
Consider the huge volumes of biomass and organic wastes generated every day around the world — wastes which cause so much damage, degradation and cost to the environment in their disposal.
Consider what it might mean if there were a process capable of cleanly converting all these organic wastes into diesel without any toxic airborne emissions or solid toxic residues?
Well, it has now been proven possible to do this and at a cost considerably cheaper than extracting and converting crude oil to petrol or diesel.
This new patented process uses a purpose-designed reactor to simulate, within minutes, the natural production of oil / hydrocarbons that otherwise has to take place below earth's surface over millions of years. This process can be scaled from small mobile units to large scale refinery-size designs. The process mimics the natural crude oil production in the earth and then mimics the oil refinery process to produce diesel – all in one convenient contained reactor / refinery.
Waste in – Diesel out!
It sounds to good to be true, but after 25 years of R&D beginning in Siemens laboratories followed by a buy-out of the rights to the technology by the inventor Dr Christian Koch, units are now in operation worldwide and have proven successful producing diesel at a cost as low as € 0.23 per liter!
Basic process parameters:
• Temperature of 270 °C to 350 °C
• ion exchanging catalysts
• 100% crystalline and extreme active y-catalysts
Key to this process is the catalyst developed over decades of intense research and optimized for minimal catalyst consumption, resulting in low operational costs.
The process unit is very low maintenance, reliable and safe. Energy demand, heat and power, for processing is supplied by a combined heat and power (CHP) plant, consuming only about 10% of the diesel produced. Apart from the organic waste material there is no need of any other input.
In a closed loop the organic waste / raw materials, mixed with the purpose-designed catalysts, produce the following catalytic reaction:
• Depolymerization of long hydrocarbons at low temperature (290 °C – 350 °C) and low pressure ( 0.9 bara)
• unique high output of more than 80% of the input hydrocarbons
• fixation of hazardous halogens into salts
• output of standard diesel fuel
Reaction process
What takes place in the KDV [Katalytische Drucklose Verölung – catalytic low pressure depolymerisation] reaction? What material conversion occurs in the reaction turbine?
The test plant in Eppendorf [Germany], run by the Institut für Neuwertwirtschaft IFN [Institute for Industrial Sustainability], was recently used for a week-long test on graded waste from Leipzig. The following results were obtained:
• The reaction temperature at the hottest point in reaction turbine was 282 °C (without any further energy input in the form of heating, microwave energy or flame)
• 89% yield of the hydrocarbons (introduced into the process) in the final product
• Calorific value of the final product 12,000 kcal/kg (alkanes in the C16 group)
• CN number of the product was 63.6
• Approx. 90% degree of desulphurisation compared to the input material
• Density, viscosity, water content and residual material content within the tolerances specified in EN 590.
These are not the results of pyrolysis, or thermal disaggregation set off by the application of external heat, as is repeatedly and mistakenly asserted by Professor Behrendt in Berlin.
These are the results of the catalytic diffusion reaction (at 282 °C), analogous to the reaction of the original creation of Earth's oil.
The increase of the conversion temperature from 15 to 282 °C and the change of the reaction process from water to oil, i.e. the differences from Earth's oil creation process, have almost no influence here.
What really takes place in the turbine? The input residual materials, a mixture of
• biomass such as paper, cellulose, constant, fats, wood and organic squeezing residues and
• mineral-based materials, e.g. plastics, oils, bitumen and rubber
come into close contact with the reaction carrier (80% oil, 20% catalyst). In the process of mixing, adsorption of the catalyst by the input material, the reaction, the desorption of the reaction products formed and the evaporation of the reaction products take place in a cycle of approximately three minutes at approx. 280 °C in the reaction turbine. The individual reactions are significant as they explain how it is that product is high-quality diesel oil.
Reaction process
There are two different reactions, which to all intents and purposes are as follows:
1. CO2 extraction, which reduces the oxygen content of the organic components to zero, and thereby produces a hydrogen surplus; and
2. depolymerisation, i.e. molecular cracking, which continues until the molecule chains are so short that the reaction temperature enables evaporation.
This is the reason why only hydrocarbons with an evaporation temperature of approximately 280 °C are generated — and that is diesel oil. Apart from diesel oil only two further materials are generated:
• CO2 resulting from the catalytic extraction reaction,
• water if there is any residual moisture in the input material or
• if the surplus hydrogen reacts with oxygen (reaction water) when pure organic material is input.
Hence it is incorrect to assume that products containing oxygen as created in pyrolysis should result from this reaction. It is not a reaction involving thermal disaggregation with the extraction of oxygen in the form of H2O but rather a catalytic diffusion reaction with the extraction of oxygen in the form of CO2.
This has of course a very significant effect on the H:C relationship of the product. In the case of pyrolysis, unsaturated hydrocarbons, steam and coke are generated in addition to methane. In the case of KDV, saturated hydrocarbons and CO2 are generated.
Thus we see that the KDV process is quite different from thermal processes and cannot accurately be characterised as pyrolysis.
One the most important points, however, is not covered in the foregoing description of the reaction process:
- Binding of acids via the ion-exchange catalysts
The most important task in waste disposal is preventing the formation of dioxins, i.e. aromatic compounds containing acids — in particular halogens. KDV ensures by the combination of cation catalysts (crystalline natrium/calcium-aluminium silicates) and their regeneration with added lime that the acid components (PVC, insecticide, bromide) bound in the input materials cannot react with the product (diesel oil) as they are bound as salts (cooking salt, calcium chloride).
The critical value of dioxin is 0.000 000 0001. Dioxin formation bears part of the responsibility for the carcinogenous deterioration of the environment. For this reason the critical value has to be kept as low as possible as halogen aromatics are extremely toxic. Halogens in cooking salts on the other hand are non-toxic. If we want to ensure that our descendants do not die more and more of cancer, then we must desist now with the dioxin production arising from pyrolysis, gasification and incineration. Over a period of 1 billion years Earth has not produced any dioxin.
Dioxin is generated upon prior aromatisation, i.e. the thermal treatment of residual materials. This does not occur with KDV.
This means that the KDV technology allows a an environmentally responsible treatment of residual material. No carcinogenous toxic waste is produced, and a material is produced that can be directly used as a fuel that, because of the mineral oil substances contained, is comparable to diesel oil. The KDV technology comprises the following elements:
• Energy technology for pre-treatment and the KDV reaction turbines with approx 10% of the diesel oil produced (efficiency of 90%)
• Pre-process technology for breaking up and drying the input materials and producing a slurry for continuing, non-hazardous input
• Ash plant for the inorganic materials separated from the slurry
• KDV plant for producing diesel oil (alkane) and
• Hydrofiner for subsequent desulphurisation in order to meet EN 590 requirements for sulphur content.
The KDV technology condenses all condensable input materials to form diesel oil and water and during the reaction does not yield any combustible gases or other by-products. There is no chimney on the plant, so the pollution protection ordinances do not apply to this process but are restricted to the input materials and product storage.
Areas of application
The standard plant, the KDV 500 (catalytic pressure-free oiling for at least 500 l/h of diesel) is economically optimized for the most diverse biological and mineral materials feedstocks. The following are areas of application results, where technologically efficient waste and residual substances in solid and liquid form can be processed and decentralized:
• Plastics of all kinds, including the PVC portion
• Rubber and automobile tires
• Waste oils, waxes and fats of all kinds including the oil of the electrical changing of currency and hydraulic oils
• Agricultural wastes, animal waste products and spoiled food
• Hospital wastes, sterilized once drained and dried, as well as
• all refinery residues, bitumen, tars, etc..
Further, poisonous materials contained in the raw materials (chlorine and metals) are bound reliably by the catalyst and neutralize harmful gases. Due to the low processing temperatures developed, no dioxins or furan is emitted so environmental burden is avoided.
Apart from valuable material, the refuse economy is now regenerating raw materials (wood, raps and other vegetable products)in the same way biologically.
The small size of the plant has also makes decentralized processing of valuable materials possible. Expensive and polluting transportation can be reduced or eliminated.
Efficiency
The efficient cleansing of the earth of dead organic material was the original crude oil production. This catalytic process was so effective that Earth could reduce CO2-content from 200,000 ppm to more or less than 250 ppm. It took the intensive industrial use of mineral energy resources like crude oil and coal along with a consequent burning or biological destruction (landfill, composting) of all residues, to increase the CO2-content in the last years to 380 ppm.
We can stop the increase of CO2 if we follow the example of Mother Nature and how she makes crude oil from all residues. This is the efficiency of the KDV-process (CDP-process, catalytic, pressureless process). Earth creates the highest efficiency and when we follow this example we reach an efficiency of about 80 - 90 % of the hydrocarbon content of the waste material.
Efficiency in the waste recycling is combined with efficiency in the environmental protection when we take two steps in recycling:
- the conversion of the waste with low calorific value and high contamination to
fuel with high calorific value and low contamination and
- in the second step using the fuel in an environmental responsible manner in a
catalytic combustion (ICR)
Catalytic processes for the preservation of our environment was formerly the aim of an R&D project conducted by Siemens in Germany. When this project was terminated, former employees began work with Alphakat and shortly thereafter bought patents from Siemens.
Benefit
Economic view
The procedure of catalytic oiling of valuable material described here is highly flexible, including among other feedstocks waste oils and waxes, and organic materials (raps, wood, organic waste from food industry amd from the meat industry), is economically beneficial because it costs only a fraction of the cost of crude oil and is relatively free of emissions.
Instead of burning waste materials by supplying energy (heat and fuel) to produce CO2 output or by means of complex technological measures, the procedure with the KDV is simple, and makes possible the efficient production of diesel.
The final diesel product if of excellent quality, has a cetane over 56 and is ready for sale as is.
Thanks to the high efficiency of the plant (approximately 80%) the procedure has a positive energy balance. It is to a large extent emission-free, and self-sustaining as it runs on the very fuel it generates.
In the burning and gasification, produced CO/CO2 does not even develop and will separate as a source of energy in the diesel stored and only with the use as fuel or fuel oil set free. The technological development is here and in demand to create a further reduction of the emissions with the use of fuels in combustion machines.
Even new technologies, like hydrogen gas cells, produce CO and CO2, during the hydrogen production as a waste product and consume limited natural occurrences such as precious metals like platinum as catalysts in application. These processes cannot achieve a positive energy balance, nor than they contribute to the removal of wastes.
The large-scale implementation KDV technology can result among other things in the following benefits:
• Job creation in mechanical engineering and chemical industry for the production of plants and catalyst
• Significant reduction of CO2 output and thus an effective contribution to the preservation of the environment along with qualification for carbon credits in the waste and energy industry
• Production of fuel by regenerating raw materials with superior efficiency and positive energy balance and with the generation of virtually no environmentally harmful residual substances
• Substantial reduction of crude oil imports through the inexpensive utilization of resources in regenerating raw materials and simultaneous leveraging of the energy trapped in wastes
• Long-term independence from the vagaries of international oil politics through use of local resources
Safety
Safety considerations
The plant is self-supportive in terms of fuel and completely standalone in all process-relevant parameters. Due to the closed-building design of the plant, gaseous emissions are controlled. The only emissions of the plant are the exhaust gases of the block heat and power plant (BHKW) of the diesel engine which produces hot water and heat for the enterprise, as well as the waste heat used in developing in the plant.
Although the plant is designe for safety, certain additional safety requirements are required. The requirement for the sealing of the plant is ensured by a permanent marginally negative pressure connected with a safety disconnection valve. Thanks to the tightness of supply and removal lines, there is a slight chance of a disturbance. For this reason, catch pans are provided to make sure no materials can reach the soil.
Unlike with other procedures, there is no danger of emergence of toxic gases such as dioxin or furans. Ion exchange catalysts bind the halogens as salts below the gaseous temperature so that these materials can form no more dioxins, since they are not converted into a gaseous state. Also, prionen from organic material is bound just like contained metals by the catalyst also reducing risk of pollution.
The process reaction takes place in a emulsion consisting of oil and the catalyst. The condition of the liquid and the circuits are to be constantly supervised so that when levels drop or or if there is an issue with the pumps or turbines the plant can be immediately shut down as a precaution.
The cut off process and associated cooling take place very quickly, with the energy entry elements switched off for rapid cooling.
When the block heat and power plant (BHKW) is shut down, the plant is automatically rinsed with oil, preventing blockage which could occur if plastic were to cool within the circuits. In addition, any emergency shutdown initiates an alarm in the central service center log files are simultaneously generated.
Once the problem is resolved, the plant can be restarted. Control errors and disturbances that might occur due to inappropriate repair procedures are minimizing, protecting the valuable constituents of the plant.
The restart of the plant takes approximately 45 minutes and is executed in accordance with pre-determined procedures and, whereby further sequence errors are minimized.
The measuring sensors are arranged in a redundant configuration. At least two measured values must correlate at all times, otherwise an emergency is automatically initiated.
It is Alphakat's philosophy to ensure safety precautions as the first priority. The KDV process is pressureless and runs at low temperatures, which is why neither the diesel nor any other byproduct of the KDV process is classified as a harmful substance. We are constantly striving to enhance the process and enhance its environmentally responsibility. Since the KDV process is harmless and easy to maintain, it does not require a large number of skilled technicians and so can be deployed even in remote regions.
When KDV plant is to be installed in a remote location, it can be equipped with the latest satellite communications devices to facilitate direct monitoring anytime and from anywhere.
In the KDV process all metal substances are separated and all prions are destroyed.
The KDV process separates inorganic substances such as metal impurities from the feedstock. The catalysts adsorb those substances due to their crystalline structure. Together they agglomerate and can be safely removed from the process. This way they cannot eluate as they are bound into a crystalline structure.
The KDV engineering ensures that preprocessed metal compounds in the input materials are already bound during liquefaction. As the final product KDV diesel is being formed later during the evaporation phase, KDV diesel is free from any harmful substance.
As result, metals and other inorganic substances are disposed of in a controlled manner. Using electrolysis as a post-processing feature, these metals can be recovered and can create an additional revenue stream.
As the feedstock is stirred into the reaction oil at temperatures over 300 °C, no prions or other protein molecules can react with the KDV diesel without being decomposed. Thus there are no discharges such as those associated with combustion processes.
Permission documents
The manufacturer provides the necessary documentation to support the plant operator’s requests to the authorities in charge of building regulations, fire protection, explosion prevention, and occupational and health protection. No pollution prevention requirements normally pertain, since only diesel steam and no other gas is formed.
The plant does not emit gases. The feedstock hydrocarbons are split catalytically into diesel form. No gasification occurs, as the reaction is controlled by the plant’s turbines and pumps. No gas is formed and no catalytic coke crystals develop during the process. The maximum reaction temperature (350 °C) is more than 70 °C than the lowest coke crystallization temperature (420 °C).
Patents
The worldwide priority patent for a turbine-heated chemical plant - Production of diesel with the CDP-process, plant Canada.
Unfortunately, certain people and firms have falsely claimed to have the rights to sell KDV technology on the international market.
Please note that all rights regarding the KDV plant and the catalyst used in it reside exclusively with Alphakat GmbH.
The KDV process is thoroughly protected by international patents. Alphakat is ready to cooperate with all those sincerely interested in partnership. There is no reason to dispute. Together, we face so many serious environmental problems. We need to focus on taking full advantage of the opportunity this invention provides us to solve these problems.
References:
Some are in construction, some are small plants.
The most efficient plants are (there are others in Korea, Bulgaria, Finnland, Mexico, aso):
Germany:
Test and demonstration units of the KDV technique are installed in Eppendorf, Markt Bibart, Gommern and Pirmasens. The Eppendorf plant with the turbine with maximum 45 kW can produce more than 60 l/h diesel. Eppendorf is also the production facility and test location for ash-recovery, desulfuration and other components. The newest test facility is in Hoyerswerda (near Dresden) and is exactely a KDV 500. In this plant all test will be done. Test with technology, tests with individual waste. Any new machine will be tested here.
Spain
This picture shows the plant KDV 200 owned by Grupo Raga and used for the conversion of mineral and biological waste
A KDV 700 has been installed in Tarragona for the company Gridó Lleida.
The plant has been reconstructed into a KDV 2000 plant. This means that they can produce 2.000 liters Diesel per hour (KDV 2000).
This factory is an existing waste dump with all necessary struture especially with all machines – two seperating machines (1 fully automatic, 1 semi automatic), 1 slicing machine, excavators, bailing machine, etc, plus a fully operating waste dump.
The concept in Tarragona is due to the EC rules:
1. Separating and recycling (average 40%, but minimum 25%)
2. Recycling: Earth, metals, glas, plastic (could be used very well in the KDV process), paper/Cartons (could be used very well in the KDV process)
3. Bailing and storing if current price is not acceptable (can be sold later or used in the KDV process)
4. Using in the KDV machine
5. What cannot be used will be deposited (average 10-20% of the income of household waste)
Often asked Questions:
Which kind of waste can be used in the process (Catalytic pressureless depolimerization) and which cannot be used?
All kind of organic/vegetable substances, any kind of plastic, cellulose (paper, wood, etc).
Cannot be used: metal, ceramic, stones, Glas.
All kind of green plants, hospital waste, meat, any kind of waste can be used.
How the sorting before the process starts?
Any type of modern sorting machine
The sorted waste must be sliced into small peaces (2- 3 cm³)
There is no need to separate anything else than metals, stones, glas and ceramic
Where is such a production to be seen?
Tarragona/Spain or the Test plant in Germany/near Dresden
How is the process running?
All parts which cannot be used must be separated before the process starts. The waste must be sliced into small peaces. There should not be a lot of negative influence.
Katalysators (different kind of cellulose and other organic or anorganic substances, calcium, aluminiumsilikat) will be added.
The substance will be heated in a turbine up to max. 280 degrees Celsius and split into the different substances where Diesel is the major part. Besides Diesel there will be water and approx. 4-10% ash which can be deposited because it is not polluted.
The sulfur will be reduced from the Diesel so that the Diesel can be used as produced.
The process is completely closed. The CO2 which is coming during the process will stay in the process because it is needed in the process.
There is no chimney where any substance can go out. There is absolutely no pollution of the air.
The water which is produced during the process is relatively clean and could be used as drinking water (after treating it a bit).
What are the output substances?
Depending on the consistence of the input material the output will be:
Diesel: 40-70% (if you use only plastic the output would be 80% Diesel)
The Diesel has approx. 54-55 Cetan (Standard Diesel has approx. 51
Cetans)
Water: 25-40%
Ash: 4-10%
Costs for this project?
The price for a production machine will be offered on damand
• Land (3-5 ha is needed – ideal would be an existing waste dump)
• Fixing the ground, buildings, Diesel tank (container)
• Separating machine
• Bailing press (so the waste can be deposited a long time without any problem
Production Costs?
We are talking about machines with a capacity of 500 liter/hour
Machine for 500 liters: 24-26 EURO Cent
Important Conditions president:
- Waste delivery contract for approx. 40.000 - 100.000 tons per year
- Definition of consistence of hoouseholdwaste and/or other biomass and organic wastes (is important to calculate the output of Diesel)
- Land with a size of 3-5 ha
- Investor
Comparison of different treatment of waste:
USE of WASTE: Comparison of the current systems in use
Emissions Waste Burning Waste into Gas PYROLYSE KDV process
CO2 100% Not possible 80% 10% - 20%
Remarks No additional burning Not possible 5-10% of the own production will be used
Dioxin At the limit Not possible Above the limit NO Dioxin
Resin No Not possible Big problems NO
The KDV machine has all certificates/licenses from EU
Summary:
Short personal statement:
Rohrer International has analysed different concepts in the last few years.
As you can see all concepts have benefits but also have their problems, especially environmental problems.
If you calculate a total energy balance, you will not find a more efficient system than the KDV System.
The most efficient systems is the KDV process where in a completely closed system absolutely no pollution will occur.
The KDV process does not need high energy to treat the waste. Only the starting process must be added. The rest of the used energy comes from the process itself.
The project is the most efficient and the most feasible process we can see current in the world.
Nothing can be explained in word better than to see a life operation which we can see any time in Spain.
Why it has not been published or installed earlier?
The KDV System has been developed over a period of approximately 20 years with different succes. The last big problem to overcome was the Coke problem which the Inventor Dr. Koch could solve recently.
The University of applied science in Hamburg, Germany released in July 2008 a new study exactely for this process of Catalytic pressureless depolimerization (German: Katalytische Drucklose Verölung – Therfore the short version of KDV).
The results are really convincing and promissing the future.
Please see the attached study.
What is our function?
We are interested to support the investors when they are implementing these concept wherever our clients/customers are.
After we have received more details about the waste and the consistence of the “input-material” together with the inventor/procucer we will be able to deliver a more detailled and special feasibility for exactely the wished case.
We naturally are prepared to support the operating period if this is wished.
Bussines plan:
The attached business plan is a forecast based on data which we got in other cases and which we have from the plant in Spain.
A big hype could be to include the treatment of the hospital waste what actual makes a lot of problems.
If this is needed we can make you an additional offer.
Juanuary 2010
Dr. Rohrer Harald (Director)
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