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US 9,040,761 B2Granted
Co-processing of biomass and synthetic polymer based materials in a pyrolysis conversion process
AssigneeKiOR, Inc.
InventorsRobert Bartek, Steve Yanik
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Abstract
Disclosed is a process for biomass conversion which includes co-processing the biomass with thermoplastic and non-thermoplastic polymer based materials in a catalytic pyrolysis reactor to convert such to liquid hydrocarbons; wherein hydrogen atoms originating with the polymer materials can remove oxygen from oxygenated hydrocarbons produced in the conversion of the biomass in the reactor.
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A process, comprising:
- i) charging a feed to a first reactor for contact with a heat carrier material and conversion of the feed to a product comprising oxygenated hydrocarbons, wherein the feed comprises at least one of (a) a biomass, and (b) a biomass and a synthetic polymer;
- ii) charging at least a portion of said product to a second reactor along with a synthetic thermoplastic polymer based material for contact with a second reactor catalyst and conversion of said synthetic thermoplastic polymer based material to liquid hydrocarbons;
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- iii) removing a second reactor bio-oil from said second reactor.
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