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 starting material, that are waste hydrocarbons and/or organics material or a mixture of the two, said process includes:

• a) an optional preliminary step wherein water content of the starting material is reduced preferably to a value lower than 55% wt. and/or wherein particulate size has been 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 preferably ranging from 0.3 to 1 atmosphere and more preferably this pressure is about 0.5 atmosphere, and
• at a temperature that is lower than 250 degrees Celsius;
• c) recovering of the liquid fraction resulting from step b), said liquid fraction may contain solid matters in suspension;
• d) a pyrolysis step wherein:
• liquid fraction obtained in step b) or c), is flash cracked on a heated reaction's support that is preferably in at least one mobile equipment or in at least one stationary equipment of the rotating kiln type, preferably under positive pressure and/or, preferably in the presence of a sweep gas, that is preferably an inert gas, and
• reaction and straight run products are recovered from the rotating kiln as solids and as a solid-gas mixture;
• e) a post treatment step wherein solid-gas mixture exiting the rotating kiln is submitted to a solid-gas separation allowing the recovering of substantially clean vapours and solids;
• and
• f) a condensation and/or fractionation step to obtain liquid fuel and gas, and
• wherein part of the heavy bio-oil and/or heavy hydrocarbon fraction recovered from pyrolysis step can be incorporated in liquid fraction resulting from step c), preferably in order to adjust solid liquid ratio in the liquid feed stream entering the reactor.