Process for converting oxygenated hydrocarbons into hydrocarbons

A process for converting solid waste into hydrocarbons, wherein said solid waste includes an organic fraction and an inorganic fraction, which comprises the steps of:

• (a) separating said solid waste into an inorganic fraction and an organic fraction comprising entrained particulate inorganic constituents;
• (b) comminuting and drying said separated organic fraction;
• (c) pyrolyzing said comminuted and dried organic fraction in the presence of a carrier gas which is nondeleteriously reactive with the pyrolysis products, and a solid heat source selected from the group consisting of a carbon-containing residue of pyrolysis and a particulate inorganic solid heat source derived from the decarbonization of the carbon-containing residue of pyrolysis, under transport turbulent flow conditions in a pyrolysis zone maintained at a temperature from about 300.degree. C. to less than the sintering temperature of the particulate inorganic solid heat source for a residence time sufficient to form from the comminuted and dried organic fraction a carbon-containing solid residue of pyrolysis and condensable pyrolytic oils and gases;
• said condensable pyrolytic oils and gases including oxygenated hydrocarbons;
• (d) separating the carbon containing solid residue of pyrolysis from the condensable pyrolytic oils and gases;
• and
• (e) deoxygenating said oxygenated hydrocarbons by contacting said separated condensable pyrolytic oils and gases with a catalyst comprising a crystalline aluminosilicate zeolite at conditions sufficient to convert said oxygenated hydrocarbons into hydrocarbons.