Direct Liquefaction
Documents about direct liquefaction (waste-to-oil or chemical recycling) technologies.
Relevant stories
KDV / AlphaKat technology
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Direktverflüssigung von Biomasse (2006, Frank Behrendt, TU Berlin) / Direct liquefaction of biomass (English, autotranslated with Google Translate) - Report comissioned by the German Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung).
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Gutachten zur Katalytischen Drucklosen Verölung (KDV-Verfahren) der Firma Alphakat (2009, Thomas Willner, HAW Hamburg) / Expert opinion on the catalytic pressureless oil conversion process (KDV process) developed by Alphakat (English, autotranslated with Google Translate) - Report commissioned by the city of Hamburg.
Dieselwest / Carboliq technology
- Wie man Kreislaufwirtschaft erreichen kann / How to REACH Circular Economy (Recenso, 2019) - Publication at Waste-to-Resources 2019 conference in Hannover (German, with English abstract).
External Sources
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Evaluation neuer Entwicklungen bei alternativen thermischen Abfallbehandlungsanlagen mit dem Schwerpunkt Verölungsverfahren (2018, Martin Pohl, Peter Quicker) - Report by the German Environmental Agency (Umweltbundesamt), contains detailed data and mass balances about the Dieselwest (later Carboliq) and Logoil technologies.
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Abschätzung der Potenziale und Bewertung der Techniken des thermochemischen Kunststoffrecyclings (2024, Peter Quicker, Mathias Seitz) - Report by the German Environmental Agency (Umweltbundesamt), contains "anonymized" data about two liquefaction technologies. "Verölung I" refers to OMV's ReOil, "Verölung II" refers to Carboliq.
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Roh- und werkstoffliche Kreislaufführung bisher nur thermisch verwerteter Abfallfraktionen in Baden-Württemberg (RohWerKBaWü, German, 2025)) - Project report for a research project funded by the state of Baden-Württemberg, contains data about trial runs with RDF (refuse-derived fuels) in Carboliq's pilot plant.