SBIR Phase II: Clean, Inexpensive, and Carbon-free Energy from a Toxic Waste

这个小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第二阶段项目建议将一种新的工艺商业化，将石油有毒废物回收利用，以获得清洁和廉价的能源。这个二期项目将通过对公司的S中试装置进行改造，将第一阶段小试装置实现的改进纳入其中，从而扩大改进流程的规模。基本的SuperATR是一种非催化过程，它使用一个充满惰性填充床的循环流反应器。在循环流反应器中，氧化剂/燃料混合物的方向周期性地颠倒，产生高温体积。一期工程的改装有效地提高了温度，使反应堆的效率更高。这项研究的更广泛影响是，石油和天然气质量的恶化正迫使石油部门承担非常高的能源和废物处理成本。例如，良性处理硫化氢每年要花费炼油厂和天然气加工厂50亿美元。目前的技术只允许提取硫含量，而浪费了更有价值的氢部分。将这项技术商业化，其价值主张是但不限于：以低廉的价格获得90亿千瓦时的免费碳电力和蒸汽。汽油和柴油价格降低，即使每加仑降低1美分，也会让美国人手中拿到20亿美元。通过帮助炼油厂和天然气工厂超过环保标准，减少500万吨温室气体和150万吨酸雨污染物。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project proposes tocommercialize a new process to recycle petroleum toxic wastes to clean and inexpensiveenergy. This Phase II project will scale the improved process by modifying the company?s pilotunit to incorporate the enhancements realized with the bench scale unit in Phase I. The basicSuperATR is a non‐catalytic process that employs a cyclic flow reactor filled with an inert packedbed. In the cyclic flow reactor, the direction of oxidizer/fuel mixture is periodically reversedproducing a high temperature volume. The modifications in the Phase I project effectivelyraised the temperature even higher to make the reactor even more efficient.The broader impacts of this research are that deteriorating qualities of oils and gases is forcingthe petroleum sector to incur very high cost for energy and waste disposal. For example, thebenign disposal of hydrogen sulfide costs oil refineries and natural gas processing plants $5billion a year. Present technologies only permit extracting the sulfur content while wasting themuch more valuable hydrogen portion. In commercializing this technology, the valuepropositions are but not limited to: Obtain 9 billion kilowatt hours of carbon‐free electricity and steam inexpensively. Lowering gasoline and diesel prices, even by 1 cent per gallon, would leave $2 billion inthe hands of Americans. Eliminate 5 million tons of greenhouse gas along with 1.5 million tons of acid rainpollutants by helping refineries and natural gas plants exceed environmental standards.