The overall scenery shows three critically growing tendencies:
- increasing energetic costs, combined with prospective risks related to the lack of hydrocarbon based fuels;
- increasing waste volumes and related management costs;
- growing environment contamination, due to both the emissions from the fossil fuel cycle and to the thermal elimination of wastes.
These problems lead to a growing demand for a greater quantity of cleaner energy at lower costs, for which we can offer two types of alternative energy:
- solar, eolic, hydroelectric, etc.;
- new fuels achieved from the transformation of biomasses and/or wastes.
The “Vuzeta Technology” allows to transform a wide variety of organic materials (wastes and/or raw materials) into a liquid fuel, through a process with a low temperature and pressure with control of the environmental emissions.
In short, the technological innovation is composed by a system which simultaneously:
- eliminates organic wastes
- produces electric energy
- without an environmental impact
The catalytic molecular rearrangement process carried out on different materials, can be described as follows. A given material with a generic formula CxHyNzOwSvCln, characterized by a specific high heating value, the process is able to produce a synthetic fuel liquid having a C(x+n)H(x+n1) formula, with a higher high heating value if compared to the material being introduced. Moreover, as resulting from the catalytic process, Vuzeta technology provides to remove the heteroatoms (oxygen, nitrogen, sulphur and possibly chlorine) from a given material.
The molecular rearrangement, is ensured by an appropriate catalyst and a suitable neutralizing agents that ensures transformation of the heteroatoms in the corresponding alkali and/or alkaline-earth metal salts. Molecular rearrangement, the key feature of the Vuzeta process, is based on cracking reactions followed by reforming, radicalic quenching and chain termination reactions, possibly by Diels-Adler cycloaddition reactions. In detail, thermal cracking and catalytic cracking processes can occur.
The first process is mediated by free radicals produced by homolitic scissions of C-H, C-C, C-O, C-N and O-H bonds, and the involved chemistry is the typical one with carbon, oxygen and hydrogen radicals. In the catalytic cracking event, there are two different mechanisms, one involves the carbocations and the second one, radical species. Carbocations are mainly generated form the Brønsted acid sites which are present in the silicate aluminum catalyst framework. The formation of radicals is favored by the Lewis acid electron acceptor sites, found in different forms of amorphous alumina.
Different reaction mechanisms which operate in holistic manner during the process, are triggered by heating, which has been achieved by material friction at approximately 350°C.The presence of a suitable catalyst, a mixed aluminum silicates zeolitic, allow the process to be carried out at low temperature. The system’s core is represented by the diathermic fluid centrifugal reactor, which has the function of favoring the conversion of kinetic energy into thermal energy, achieving a corresponding temperature increase of the fluid.
CIRCULAR SEPARATOR
MANUAL PRESET
BUNKER
BREAKER
SHED FOR A MODULE
TURBINE GROUP
MIXERS
TANKS
COGENERATION GROUP
CONTROL ROOM