Method And Device For Producing Operating Materials Or Fuels

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and to devices for producing operating materials or fuels, humus, Maillard or similar reaction products from a solid-liquid mixture of water and a carbonaceous component and for treating said mixture, wherein the solid-liquid mixture is treated at a temperature of over 100° C. and a pressure of over 5 bar.

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         21 . Method for the production of fuels from a solid-fluid mixture of water and a carbon-containing component, wherein the solid-fluid mixture is treated at a temperature of over 100-300° C. and a pressure of over 5 bar,
 characterized in that 
 non-pumpable starting substances are conveyed in the reactor via a first conveyor line, and, parallel or offset therefrom, pumpable heated starting substances are conveyed in at least a first reactor via a second conveyor line. 
 
     
     
         22 . Method according to  claim 21 , wherein non-pumpable starting substances with a solid content of 25 to 97 percent related to the total volume are conveyed in the reactor via a first conveyor line and, parallel or offset therefrom, pumpable heated starting substances with a solid content of 3 to 50 percent related to the total volume are directed via a second conveyor line. 
     
     
         23 . Method according to  claim 21 , wherein the ratio of the mass throughput of non-pumpable to pumpable starting substances is 1:20 to 10:1. 
     
     
         24 . Method according to  claim 21 , wherein the non-pumpable starting substances are conveyed to the reactor from the first conveyor line under a pressure above the vapor pressure of the process water and are coated with pumpable starting substances from the second conveyor line. 
     
     
         25 . Method according to  claim 24 , wherein the conveyor device for adding the non-pumpable starting substances from the first conveyor line into the reactor under pressure above the vapor pressure of the process water is an injector, a double screw extruder, an eccentric spiral pump, a piston pump which are respectively equipped with or without a spiral compressor, or a double spiral compressor. 
     
     
         26 . Method according  claim 21 , wherein the ratio of the mass throughput of provided to added starting substances is 1:20 to 10:1, or 1:5 to 1:1. 
     
     
         27 . Device for treating a solid-fluid mixture of water and a carbon-containing component at a temperature of over 100-300° C. and a pressure of over 5 bar, comprising a reactor,
 characterized in that 
 the device comprises a feeding apparatus with the following devices:
 a. a first conveyor line conveying pumpable starting substances solid-liquid mixtures with a solid content of 3 to 50 percent related to the total volume, and 
 b. a second conveyor line conveying for conveying non-pumpable starting substances with a solid content of 25 to 97 percent related to the total volume. 
 
 
     
     
         28 . Method for the production of materials or fuels, humus, Maillard or similar reaction products from a solid-fluid mixture of water and a carbon-containing component, wherein the solid-fluid mixture is treated at a temperature of 100 -300° C. and a pressure of over 5 bar,
 characterized in that 
 enriched process water is used for preincubation, preheating of starting substances, production of the pumpability of a solid-fluid mixture, for take-over into the reaction mixture, for coating or admixing to provided starting substance in a reactor of the plant, for returning into the running process, as heat carrier medium, for further processes within or outside a plant or as a fertilizer component. 
 
     
     
         29 . Use of enriched process water from a method for the production fuels from a solid-fluid mixture of water and a carbon-containing component, wherein the solid-fluid mixture is treated at a temperature of 100-300° C., a pressure of over 5 bar and a treatment time of at least 1 hour,
 for 
 preincubation, preheating of starting substances, production of a pumpable solid-fluid mixture, for the takeover into the reaction mixture, for coating of or mixing to the given starting substance in a reactor of the plant, for returning into the running process, as heat carrier medium or as fertilizer component. 
 
     
     
         30 . Apparatus for the production of fuels from a solid-fluid mixture of water and a carbon-containing component and for treating the same, wherein the solid-fluid mixture is treated at a temperature of 100-300° C., a pressure of over 5 bar and a treatment time of at least 1 hour,
 characterized by 
 an apparatus for the enrichment of withdrawn process water and for returning the enriched process water to the solid-fluid mixture.