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The situation World supplies of crude oil are running out and their cost is spiraling upward. The future of civilization and the security of our societies depend on the production of affordable fuels that can substitute for natural crude oil. New approaches using renewable biomass and organic waste are an attractive alternative, especially when fuel can be produced through a low cost zero-emissions process. And when the process is capable of converting huge volumes of biomass and organic wastes which may include toxins, including plastics, municipal waste, sewage, used oils into diesel. Such a process is even more attractive when the conversion process can be used on site where organic wastes are produced and the diesel produced can be used on site to substitute diesel fuel, for process or building heating or to power truck fleets, company cars and industrial equipment.Consider the huge volumes of biomass and organic wastes generated every day around the world — wastes which cause so much damage, degradation and cost to the environment in their disposal. Consider what it might mean if there were a process capable of cleanly converting all these organic wastes into diesel without any toxic airborne emissions or solid toxic residues? Well, it has now been proven possible to do this and at a cost considerably cheaper than extracting and converting crude oil to petrol or diesel. This new patented process uses a purpose-designed reactor to simulate, within minutes, the natural production of oil / hydrocarbons that otherwise has to take place below earth's surface over millions of years. This process can be scaled from small mobile units to large scale refinery-size designs. The process mimics the natural crude oil production in the earth and then mimics the oil refinery process to produce diesel – all in one convenient contained reactor / refinery. Waste in – diesel out! It sounds to good to be true, but after 25 years of R&D beginning in Siemens laboratories followed by a buy-out of the rights to the technology by the inventor Dr Christian Koch, units are now in operation worldwide and have proven successful producing diesel at a cost as low as € 0.23 per liter! Basic process parameters: Key to this process is the catalyst developed over decades of intense research and optimized for minimal catalyst consumption, resulting in low operational costs. The process unit is very low maintenance, reliable and safe. Energy demand, heat and power, for processing is supplied by a combined heat and power (CHP) plant, consuming only about 10% of the diesel produced. Apart from the organic waste material there is no need of any other input.  In a closed loop the organic waste / raw materials, mixed with the purpose-designed catalysts, produce the following catalytic reaction: Depolymerization of long hydrocarbons at low temperature (290 °C – 350 °C) and low pressure ( 0.9 bara) unique high output of more than 80% of the input hydrocarbons fixation of hazardous halogens into salts output of standard diesel fuel
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