Process for the production of liquid hydrocarbons

US4642401A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Fried Krupp · DE

Inventors

• Hubert Coenen · Essen, DE
• Rainer Hagen · Leverkusen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 16, 1984
• Grant date: Feb 10, 1987
• Expiry date: Jul 16, 2004

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C10G1/10
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A process for the production of liquid hydrocarbons from old tires, cable wastes, polyethylene wastes and/or polypropylene wastes, by which the waste products, in pulverized form, are treated at a temperature of 150.degree. to 500.degree. C. and a pressure 20 to 300 bar with a solvent which is liquid at 1 bar and 20.degree. C. to form a solvent phase charged with liquid hydrocarbons and a residue phase. The charged solvent phase is separated from the residue, and the separated charged solvent phase is resolved into its components by lowering of pressure and/or temperature, and by distillation.