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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 1982
Filed:
Apr. 09, 1980
Thomas A Weil, Naperville, IL (US);
Peter M Dzadzic, Lisle, IL (US);
Chien-Cheng J Shih, Naperville, IL (US);
Michael C Price, West Chicago, IL (US);
Standard Oil Company (Indiana), Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A process for production and recovery of hydrocarbons from hydrocarbon-containing whole plants in a form suitable for use as chemical feedstocks or as hydrocarbon energy sources which process comprises: (a) pulverizing by grinding or chopping hydrocarbon-containing whole plants selected from the group consisting of Euphorbiaceae, Apocynaceae, Asclepiadaceae, Compositae, Cactaceae and Pinaceae families to a suitable particle size, (b) drying and preheating said particles in a reducing atmosphere under positive pressure (c) passing said particles through a thermal conversion zone containing a reducing atmosphere and with a residence time of 1 second to about 30 minutes at a temperature within the range of from about 200.degree. C. to about 1000.degree. C., (d) separately recovering the condensable vapors as liquids and the noncondensable gases in a condition suitable for use as chemical feedstocks or as hydrocarbon fuels.