Southwest Research Institute

Monica R Medrano

Jimell Erwin

Matthew S Blais

Darrel W Johnston

Michael G MacNaughton

Michael P Hartmann

Daniel Moreland

Eloy Flores, Iii

Hsiang Y Lai

Technologies for combusting hazardous compounds such as chemical warfare agents and related compounds are disclosed. In embodiments, the technologies include systems and methods for combusting such compounds in an internal combustion engine, such as a spark ignition internal combustion engine, a diesel engine, or the like. The technologies described herein further include components for treating an exhaust gas stream produced by combustion of hazardous compounds. In embodiments such components include a scrubber that utilizes a scrubbing media such as soil to removing acid gases from the exhaust stream.

Chemical warfare agents and related compounds as fuel for internal combustion engines

There is provided a process and systems for producing fuels via pyrolysis of carbonaceous feedstock under pressure and temperature in an efficient manner using a circulating fluidized bed with catalyst(s). The pressure and temperature are selected to provoke supercritical conditions, and pyrolysis, hydropyrolysis, hydrotreating, and optionally reforming treatment of the carbonaceous feedstock is carried out simultaneously in one reactor on a recirculating fluidized bed containing catalysts.

Feedstock conversion to fuel on high pressure circulating fluidized bed

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San Antonio, TX, United States of America

Monica R Medrano