AFRICA AGROBIO

Africa Agrobio Diesel

Liquid fuel of synthesis

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From Solid Fuel of Normalized Recovery (CSR-N) into liquid hydrocarbons.

This technology, through a process of cracking of the organic material and its subsequent distillation, is able to transform the Solid Waste from Normalised Recovery (SWR-N) into liquid hydrocarbons with characteristics similar to those of diesel fuel.

The fuel produced by Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) has the same density and calorific value as fossil fuels with a sulfur content generally below 0.5%.

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Overview

Hydrocarbons, the result of the natural degradation of organic materials in oxygen-free environments, generally available in nature in the form of petroleum, represent the energy vector par excellence in addition to being the basic raw material for the realization of a plurality of different products of the chemical industry.

The Africa Agrobio Diesel technology is capable of transforming organic materials of various origins into hydrocarbons, such as organic waste from the agricultural, forestry and industrial sectors and the organic fraction of municipal solid waste.

In particular, the Africa Agrobio Diesel technology is able to produce hydrocarbons of constant quality, regardless of the quality of the incoming material, thanks to the technology applied to the cracking of the organic matter which tends to dissociate completely the complex organic molecules and then to favor their reformation in more stable forms such as carbon dioxide, water and hydrocarbons.

The process, which reduces the time needed to produce hydrocarbons from millions of years to a few minutes, requires a large amount of energy.

The energy required by the Africa Agrobio Diesel plant is generated through the use of by-products of the process, sufficient to provide all the energy necessary for the operation of the system both in terms of thermal and electrical needs.

Description

The Africa Agrobio Diesel technology, through the integration of different physical processes, converts organic based materials into a plurality of hydrocarbons.

The non-hydrocarbons fractions of the organic materials are fed into a cogeneration system that produces the thermal and electrical energy required for the entire process.

The gaseous effluents and ashes produced by the cogeneration plant, essentially consisting of carbon dioxide, water and mineral salts, are essential elements for the needs of the greenhouses, which may be connected to the plant, intended for the production of vegetable substances in a controlled atmosphere.

The plant, dedicated to the transformation of organic matter into hydrocarbons, as well as its energy cogeneration system, fall into the plant engineering category called Bio Refinery.

Principles of operation

Africa Agrobio Diesel technology produces synthetic hydrocarbons by accelerating and reducing the process that led to the creation of fossil oil over millions of years to a few minutes.

The raw material, made of organic materials, as was the case for the process that led to the formation of fossil oil, is first degraded, then deprived of atmospheric oxygen and then mixed under pressure and temperature conditions that favor the cracking of the chemical bonds of carbon to favor their recomposition into simpler molecules such as carbon dioxide, water and paraffinic hydrocarbons.

Main operational steps :

1. The raw material, in its solid state, is loaded into the plant

2. A high-speed crusher (CONVERTER) crushes and partially dehydrates it, transforming it into Standard Solid Recovered Fuel (CSR-N), homogeneous in terms of density, humidity and calorific value

3. The SRF-N is mixed with a carrier oil that dehydrates it completely, deprives it of all contact with atmospheric oxygen and heats it until it is completely liquefied.

4. The CSR-N, now liquefied, by a cavitation mill develops a flash pyrolysis process which, by the contribution of a great quantity of energy during a time of a few fractions of second, favors the cracking of the organic molecules and their immediate reactivation in composition of simpler molecules

5. Under the temperature conditions that occur after the cracking phase, most of the molecules formed are in the vapor state, ready to be separated in a special fractional distillation tower according to their subsequent use.

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