Process for producing liquid fuel from waste hydrocarbon and/or organic material, reactor, apparatus, uses and managing system thereof

A process for producing liquid fuels from solid organic starting material comprising municipal solid waste and/or plastic waste, said process includes:

• a) an optional preliminary step wherein water content of the starting material is reduced to a value lower than 55% wt. and/or wherein particulate size has been mechanically reduced to a size ranging from 3 mm to 0.1 mm;
• b) a thermal step wherein at least partial liquifying and at least partial dewatering of the starting material, eventually obtained in previous steps a) occurs, wherein starting material is heated under:
• a pressure that is ranging from 0,3 to 2 atmosphere, and
• at a temperature that is lower than 250 degrees Celsius;
• c) recovering of a liquid fraction from the at least partial liquifying resulting from step b), said liquid fraction may contain solid matters in suspension;
• d) a pyrolysis step wherein:
• the liquid fraction obtained in step b) or c), is flash cracked on a heated reaction's support that is in at least one mobile equipment or in at least one stationary equipment under positive pressure and/or in the presence of a sweep gas, and
• reaction and straight run products are recovered from the at least one mobile equipment or in at least one stationary equipment as solids and as a solid-gas mixture;
• e) a post treatment step wherein solid-gas mixture exiting the at least one mobile equipment or in at least one stationary equipment is submitted to a solid-gas separation by mechanical separation of the solids allowing the recovering of substantially clean gas portion and solids;
• and
• f) a condensation and/or fractionation step of the qas portion to obtain liquid fuel and gas.

A rotating kiln, comprising:

• a. a heating system;
• b. at least one plate supporting device that is a shelf or series of stoppers or any device keeping the plates on parallel to the reactor wall;
• c. a charge of plates of consistent shapes;
• d. means for bringing a mixture of liquefied and entrained solids to be thermally processed on the surface of at least part of the plates at a temperature above 250° C. and a pressure between 2 psia and 29 psia;
• e. a sweep gas is infected in the rotating kiln or in a feed stream entering the rotating kiln,
• f. guides for removing solids from the reactor in through entrainment with exiting vapours, or mechanically through a separate solids exit, or both;
• g. means for recovering the reaction and straight run products
• wherein the rotating kiln is obtained by modification of a rotating kiln
• in such a way to have the following features:
• the plate's width representing from 5 to 30% of the kiln's inner diameter;
• the plate thickness being at most 2 cm;
• and
• the plate's length ranging from 100 to 400%.