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	Thermal depolymerization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thermal depolymerization can change many carbon-based materials into crude oil and methane, and is not limited to manure or vegetable waste.
		Thermal depolymerization is similar to the geological processes that produced the fossil fuels used today, except that the technological process occurs in a timeframe measured in hours.
		The company said it has finished installation of a thermal oxidizer and upgraded odor scrubber system that were ordered as part of a consent agreement with the city and the Missouri attorney general's office.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thermal_depolymerization (1819 words)

	AR-News: (US) Anything into Oil
		Thermal depolymerization machines turbocharge the process by precisely raising heat and pressure to levels that break the feedstock's long molecular bonds.
		Thermal depolymerization, Appel says, has proved to be 85 percent energy efficient for complex feedstocks, such as turkey offal: "That means for every 100 Btus in the feedstock, we use only 15 Btus to run the process." He contends the efficiency is even better for relatively dry raw materials, such as plastics.
		At the end of their useful lives, they would be converted in thermal depolymerization machines into short-chain fuels, fertilizers, and industrial raw materials, ready for plants or people to convert them back into long chains again.
	lists.envirolink.org /pipermail/ar-news/Week-of-Mon-20030804/004435.html (3464 words)

	THERMAL DEPOLYMERIZATION
		Thermal Depolymerization plants are now in test production in various locations around the United States.
		The Thermal Depolymerization process is potentially better than the production of ethanol because it accepts more inputs than just corn.
		Many Thermal Depolymerization plants will have to be constructed and brought on-line for the production of a substantial amount of petroleum.
	members.cox.net /gillow/gillow/Future/thermal_depolymerization.htm (603 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Thermal depolymerization: is it is, or is it ain't?
		In fact, to this layperson, it seems that thermal depolymerization, or "thermochemical conversion of biomass", is essentially the same geological process used by the earth for millions of years to do exactly the same thing, except with TDP it is run by humans at a much faster rate of conversion.
		Seems to me that the main enemies of thermal depolymerization are the professional prophets of doom and their friends, the social sculptors.
		Thermal depolyermization is certainly not the total answer to the worlds's need for liquid hydrocarbon fuel, but it is yet another potential contributor.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2003/05/08/140006.php (8669 words)

	Vicki's Notepad - Slightly Off Kilter: Garbage In, Oil Out
		The process, thermal depolymerization, can convert a wide variety of waste products, from plastic bottles to municipal sewage to food wastes to those heaps of tires that traditionally dot the landscape.
		Thermal depolymerization has proven to be at least 85 percent energy efficient (that remaining 15% is used to run the process as the gases are burned on-site to make heat for power).
		Even the Oil companies seem to be taking a favorable stance; thermal depolymerization can make the current petroleum industry itself cleaner and more profitable.
	www.cfcl.com /vlb/weblog/archives/000037.html (333 words)

	Anything into Oil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Once the organic soup is heated and partially depolymerized in the reactor vessel, phase two begins.
		Because depolymerization takes apart materials at the molecular level, Appel says, it is "the perfect process for destroying pathogens." On a wet afternoon in Carthage, he smiles at the new plant—an artless assemblage of gray and dun-colored buildings—as if it were his favorite child.
		Appel says a modified version of thermal depolymerization could be used to inject steam into underground tar-sand deposits and then refine them into light oils at the surface, making this abundant, difficult-to-access resource far more available.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/j/m/jmr250/anything_into_oil.htm (3457 words)

	Kesher Talk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		At this point in the US it is more profitable for livestock operations to sell their wastes to make livestock feed, but fear of disease could change that as it already has in Europe.
		Although no testing has been done on the effect of the thermal conversion process on prions, the rogue proteins that are thought to cause BSE, [MIT chemical engineering professor Jefferson] Tester is confident that the high pressures and temperatures it uses would be more than sufficient to dismantle those pathogens.
		Experiments at the Philadelphia thermal depolymerization plant have converted heavy crude oil, shale, and tar sands into light oils, gases, and graphite-type carbon.
	www.hfienberg.com /kesher/2005/04/thermal-depolymerization.html (1739 words)

	Peak Oil News and Message Boards >> Production; Extraction; Exploration >> Does Thermal Depolymerization Solve the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Thermal Depolymerization is a process that breaks down polymers into simpler compounds, much of which can be used for fuel.
		After all, eating itself is largely a way to harvest energy from other biomass, and eating is a sustainable project in the ecosystem (though not, perhaps, for a human population of its current size).
		Depolymerization could enable us to capture this some of this energy in a sustainable way (attention Changing World: I expect a ten percent royalty on this idea!).
	www.peakoil.com /article21.html (1692 words)

	Oil from Anything
		A Google search on "thermal depolymerization" will bring up a lot of interesting discussions by people with more extensive science backgrounds that mine.
		Thermodepolymerization -- or "thermal depolymerization" -- is a process that converts stuff into oil.
		Essentially, thermal depolymerization or TDP mimics a process the earth itself uses to 'process' what gets buried and break it down.
	www.kantor.com /useful/thermo.shtml (395 words)

	Thermal Depolymerization: Get Gummint Out of the Way \| End the War on Freedom
		Probably the most important thing to understand about current events is that this is not--and never was--a war about oil itself, but a war about oil from particular sources, the sources controlled by the Bush family's cronies.
		The trouble, of course, from the viewpoint of George Bush, Dick Cheney, and the petrogangsters in this administration, is that they don't own and can't control the revolution represented by the process of thermal depolymerization.
		The state can only survive as long as a majority is programmed to believe that theft isn't wrong if it's called taxation or asset forfeiture or eminent domain, that assault and kidnapping isn't wrong if it's called arrest, that mass murder isn't wrong if it's called war.
	billstclair.com /blog/050828.html (689 words)

	Anything Into Oil
		With a new technology, called Thermal Depolymerization, we may soon be able to do just that.
		The first industrial-scale Thermal Depolymerization plant was built in Carthage, Missouri, adjacent to a Butterball Turkey processing plant.
		Thermal Depolymerization, according to Appel, has proved to be 85% energy efficient for complex feed stocks such as turkey remains.
	www.spiritofmaat.com /announce/newoil.htm (923 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Through a chemical process called thermal depolymerization, CWT says it can convert practically any carbon-containing waste into a fuel similar to biodiesel or heating oil.
		A host of independent chemists and alternative energy experts concur that CWT’s thermal depolymerization process is technically feasible, and that the byproducts are indeed negligible.
		Thermal depolymerization, which involves subjecting a water-saturated material the consistency of pudding to substantial pressure and heat, is often likened to an accelerated version of the geological forces that converted plant and animal matter into the energy-rich deposits we call fossil fuels.
	www.dfire.org /x511.xml?ss=print (2371 words)

	Anything Into Oil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Because depolymerization takes apart materials at the molecular level, Appel says, it is "the perfect process for destroying pathogens." On a wet afternoon in Carthage, he smiles at the new plant an artless assemblage of gray and dun-colored buildings as if it were his favorite child.
		The thermal depolymerization process can convert a wide range of waste materials into oil and other useful by-products, In proportions That vary according to the specific type of feedstock run through the works:
		According to global-warming theory, as carbon in the form of carbon dioxide accumulates in the atmosphere, it traps solar radiation, which warms the atmosphere and, some say, disrupts the planet's ecosystems.
	www.eroei.com /articles/anything_oil.html (3791 words)

	BioDieselNow Forums - thermal depolymerization plant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Assuming the energy in the feedstock is "free", the efficiency defined as usable energy output divided by energy input to run the process would be 85 divided by 15, or 560%.
		The Thermal Depolymerization company's website states 85% energy efficient - so, I'm inclined to think that that is correct, and that this Brian Appel doesn't know what "energy efficiency" means.
		In comparison to the thermal depolymerization process energy use, the biodiesel plant uses one fifth of the energy, taking 2.75 gallons of fuel to make 100 gallons of biodiesel.
	forums.biodieselnow.com /topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=829 (5307 words)

	Biodegradable Films of Partly Branched Poly(L-lactide)-co-poly(-caprolactone) Copolymer: Modulation of Phase ...
		The PLLA-co-PCL/polyether films showed significant stability against thermal depolymerization, high film flexibility, and good plasticizing properties, probably due to cross-linking and chain branching formation between diepoxy groups with both the end carboxyl and hydroxyl groups of the PLLA copolymer (initially present or generated during the degradation process) to produce primary ester and ether bonds, respectively.
		Diethyl phthalate and triethyl citrate ester were found to be efficient plasticizers for PLLA copolymer in terms of glass transition and mechanical properties, but the more water-soluble plasticizer triethyl citrate induced a dramatic loss in the molecular weight of the copolymer.
		Although ESO cannot play the role of a plasticizer, it substantially stabilizes and retards thermal depolymerization of the PLLA copolymer matrix, possibly because of a reaction between epoxy groups with the end carboxyl and hydroxyl groups of the PLLA copolymer.
	pubs.acs.org /cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/bomaf6/2004/5/i03/abs/bm049920q.html (415 words)

	Thermal Depolymerization is the Energy Crisis Solution by Turning Trash into Treasure - Above Top Secret Conspiracy ...
		Thermal Depolymerization is the Energy Crisis Solution by Turning Trash into Treasure
		Thermal Depolymerisation offers a good solution to oil shortage and waste management in theory.
		The process is called thermal depolymerization or TDP, and the company that's doing it is West Hempstead, N.Y.-based Changing World Technologies.
	www.abovetopsecret.com /forum/thread134491/pg (4684 words)

	TCP - TheBestLinks.com - Transmission Control Protocol, Thermal depolymerization, Disambig, Fungicide, ...
		TCP - TheBestLinks.com - Transmission Control Protocol, Thermal depolymerization, Disambig, Fungicide,...
		Thermal conversion process, another name for thermal depolymerization
		This is a disambiguation page, i.e., a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
	www.thebestlinks.com /TCP.html (109 words)

	Interesting Thing of the Day: Oil from Garbage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		What many investors are hoping will be the Next Big Thing is a technology called the thermal depolymerization process, or TDP for short.
		Thermal depolymerization is just now coming into commercial use, though similar processes have been known for decades.
		The problem was that they were always too expensive to operate; it cost more for the fuel to decompose the garbage than the resulting materials were worth.
	itotd.com /index.alt?ArticleID=205 (1120 words)

	Anything Into Oil - - science news articles online technology magazine articles Anything Into Oil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		One major development since the original Discover article is the discovery last December of a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, in Washington State.
		Since then, interest in using thermal conversion to control the disease has skyrocketed, say company officials.
		Although no testing has been done on the effect of the thermal conversion process on prions, the rogue proteins that are thought to cause BSE, Tester is confident that the high pressures and temperatures it uses would be more than sufficient to dismantle those pathogens.
	www.discover.com /issues/jul-04/features/anything-into-oil (864 words)

	Turkey Trash
		The technique, which is called thermal depolymerization (TDP), is not completely new; but the CWT processing plant is the first commercially viable application.
		Thermal Depolymerization is essentially an accelerated version of the process that the Earth used when it put buried vegetation and dinosaur parts under pressure over long periods of time to form petroleum deposits.
		The TDP process reduces the time it takes to break down the molecular bonds that allows the waste to be turned into fuel and other by- products.
	www.acfnewsource.org /science/turkey_trash.html (724 words)

	Environmental Update / New Recycling Technology
		This is a big, new step," agrees Alf Andreassen, a venture capitalist with the Paladin Capital Group and a former Bell Laboratories director.
		However, Earth takes its own sweet time doing this-generally thousands or millions of years-because subterranean heat and pressure changes are chaotic.
		Because depolymerization takes apart materials at the molecular level, Appel says, it is "the perfect process for destroying pathogens." On a wet afternoon in Carthage, he smiles at the new Plant -- an artless assemblage of gray and dun-colored buildings -- as if it were his favorite child.
	www.cooperativeindividualism.org /environment_new_recycling_process_2003.html (2541 words)

	a - glossary/faqs - plastics resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		ART includes such processes as methanolysis, glycolysis, hydrolysis, and thermal depolymerization.
		These technologies augment existing mechanical systems as part of an integrated approach to plastics recycling designed to increase the volume of post-consumer plastic plastics diverted from the waste stream and expand the variety of plastics that are recycled into new and useful products.
		A complete depolymerization process that breaks nylon into its building blocks or monomers that can then be repolymerized to make nylon in any form and for any market.
	www.plasticsinfo.org /top_level/glossary/glossary_a.html (331 words)

	Tests for the Depolymerization of Polyacrylamides as a Potential Source of Acrylamide in Heated Foods (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This study was conducted to test the possibility that polyacrylamides used in agriculture may contribute to acrylamide formation in heated foods by thermal depolymerization.
		They were added as aqueous solutions to filter paper for heating in a drying/dry environment and added to a cooking oil for heating in a fatty environment.
		Consequently, it is concluded that even if polyacrylamides were to contaminate agricultural crops and foods derived therefrom (which itself is an unproven suggestion), there is no evidence that the polymers would depolymerize on heating of the food to form acrylamide in any significant amount.
	pubs.acs.org /cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/jafcau/2003/51/i23/abs/jf0302308.html (255 words)

	LewRockwell.com Blog: Re: Nuclear Spring -- Thermal Depolymerization?
		CWT’s thermal process utilizes organic waste materials such as tires, plastics, municipal sewage sludge, paper, animal and agricultural refuse to produce a ready supply of high-value oil and other fungible energy products.
		The thermal technology works by breaking down long chains of organic polymers into their smallest units, and reforming them into new combinations to produce clean solid, liquid and gaseous alternative fuels and specialty chemicals.
		The ability to have a positive impact on reducing environmental degradation while creating an independent, economically viable source of high quality energy is an extremely exciting and rewarding opportunity.
	blog.lewrockwell.com /lewrw/archives/007839.html (563 words)

	Waste Into Oil
		If you burn PVC in a municipal-waste incinerator, you get dioxin very toxic." Brian Appel, CEO of Changing World Technologies, strolls through a thermal depolymerization plant in Philadelphia.
		Experiments at the pilot facility revealed that the process is scalable, plants can sprawl over acres and handle 4,000 tons of waste a day or be "small enough to go on the back of a flatbed truck" and handle just one ton daily, says Appel.
		Because depolymerization takes apart materials at the molecular level, Appel says, it is "the perfect process for destroying pathogens." On a wet afternoon in Carthage, he smiles at the new plantand#8212;an artless assemblage of gray and dun-colored buildingsand#8212;as if it were his favorite child.
	www.ecologicinvestor.com /news/readfullnews.asp?NewsID=344 (2684 words)

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