WO1990012103A1 - Way and plant for producing alcohol for motor fuel from cellulose bearing waste and rest materials - Google Patents

Way and plant for producing alcohol for motor fuel from cellulose bearing waste and rest materials Download PDF

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WO1990012103A1
WO1990012103A1 PCT/SE1990/000248 SE9000248W WO9012103A1 WO 1990012103 A1 WO1990012103 A1 WO 1990012103A1 SE 9000248 W SE9000248 W SE 9000248W WO 9012103 A1 WO9012103 A1 WO 9012103A1
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cellulose
alcohol
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Carl-Olof RANZÉN
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Erecta Ag
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    • CCHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C12BIOCHEMISTRY; BEER; SPIRITS; WINE; VINEGAR; MICROBIOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING
    • C12PFERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIRED CHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERS FROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE
    • C12P7/00Preparation of oxygen-containing organic compounds
    • C12P7/02Preparation of oxygen-containing organic compounds containing a hydroxy group
    • C12P7/04Preparation of oxygen-containing organic compounds containing a hydroxy group acyclic
    • C12P7/06Ethanol, i.e. non-beverage
    • C12P7/08Ethanol, i.e. non-beverage produced as by-product or from waste or cellulosic material substrate
    • C12P7/10Ethanol, i.e. non-beverage produced as by-product or from waste or cellulosic material substrate substrate containing cellulosic material
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B03SEPARATION OF SOLID MATERIALS USING LIQUIDS OR USING PNEUMATIC TABLES OR JIGS; MAGNETIC OR ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATION OF SOLID MATERIALS FROM SOLID MATERIALS OR FLUIDS; SEPARATION BY HIGH-VOLTAGE ELECTRIC FIELDS
    • B03BSEPARATING SOLID MATERIALS USING LIQUIDS OR USING PNEUMATIC TABLES OR JIGS
    • B03B9/00General arrangement of separating plant, e.g. flow sheets
    • B03B9/06General arrangement of separating plant, e.g. flow sheets specially adapted for refuse
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02EREDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
    • Y02E50/00Technologies for the production of fuel of non-fossil origin
    • Y02E50/10Biofuels, e.g. bio-diesel
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02WCLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO WASTEWATER TREATMENT OR WASTE MANAGEMENT
    • Y02W30/00Technologies for solid waste management
    • Y02W30/50Reuse, recycling or recovery technologies
    • Y02W30/62Plastics recycling; Rubber recycling

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  • waste paper A part of the large amounts of waste which must be disposed of in one way or another is recycled, for instance certain types of waste paper, which can be used for recovering fibres for the cellulose industry.
  • waste paper is preferably newsprint, most of which consists of ground pulp or some other mechanical or chemo-mechanical pulp, i.e. with a high content of lignin and a smaller proportion of cellulose, whereas the present invention is in particular designed for such waste as cannot be used owing to its contents of other materials such as paper and cardboard lined or laminated with plastics, waxed paper, printed matter sized with glue not soluble in water, metallised paper, carbon paper, vegetable matter, food residues etc. emanating largely from domestic refuse.
  • Domestic refuse contains iron and other metals, stony material, glass, plastic, wood, paper, cardboard, corrugated cardboard, vegetable matter, food residues etc. and could in the past not be used in any other way but by combustion.
  • the waste is first finely broken down in a disintegrator 1 of any type whatsoever such as a hammer mill etc.
  • Office paper which for reasons of security has been passed through a paper shredder can also be used with advantage, even if it includes carbonless copy paper and carbon paper.
  • the mass is conveyed to a tank 6 prior to possible screening at 7.
  • relatively large particles, some plastic fragments etc. are removed, and these can, together with the residues of the mash, be passed on for briquet- making or possibly returned to the defibration stage.
  • a hydrolysis stage 9 where the cellulose and other polysaccharides are broken down to simpler types of sugar.
  • the hydrolysis can be brought about with the aid of some acid, sulphuric acid, hydrochloric acid, formic acid, sulphur dioxide etc. or also by enzymatic means. Enzymatic decomposition with the aid of immobilised enzymes has proved to be advantageous both as regards the result and in economic respects.
  • the pH-value is adjusted to a value suitable for fermentation by neutralising with, for instance, lime.
  • Fermentation is carried out in large fermentation vats 11, where the given types of sugar are fermented to ethanol.
  • the impurities contained in the mash such as the lignin, paper fillers, kaolin, titanium white, baryta white etc., waxes, plastics and other substances, do not interfere with the fermentation since under the prevailing conditions they are largely inert. Certain plastics can indeed dissolve to some extent in the alcohols formed, but this does not affect the distillation in any way.
  • the mash residues from purification are conveyed to a briquetting press 14, where, possibly together with the solid components from bins 7, they are pressed to briquets, which after drying can be used as fuel.
  • the amount of non-combustible filling matter in the briquets depends on the raw materials used and may vary between a few and several times ten per cent, but in general the briquets will have a good combustion value. It may also be possible to recover yeast from the mash residues.
  • the ethanol which has been distilled off contains, in addition to a few per cent of water, also methanol, higher alcohols and esters, and it can, possibly after drying in order to reduce the water content, be used directly in motors.
  • At least a part of the residues after distillation may be returned to fermentation stage 11 for further fermentation or it may separately be subjected to refermentation and then purified and discharged to the drain.

Abstract

The way and arrangement for manufacturing alcohol, specially for motor fuel, is based upon the use of unsorted cellulose bearing waste as starting material. Household waste consists largely of packages of plastic laminated cardboard and other products of mixed materials, where the cellulose material cannot be extracted through assorting. According to the invention such unsorted cellulose bearing mixture, specially household waste is decomposed (1), cleared (2) of iron, other metals, glass etc. and screened. Thereafter the cellulose and other polysaccarides are hydrolysed (9) to simpler sugar sorts which after being pH-adjusted (10) are fermented (11) to alcohol. The mash residuum is separated (12) and compressed (14) to briquettes. From the purified solution the alcohol is distilled (13). It can be used as motor fuel.

Description

Way and plant for producing alcohol for motor fuel from cellulose bearing waste and rest materials.
A part of the large amounts of waste which must be disposed of in one way or another is recycled, for instance certain types of waste paper, which can be used for recovering fibres for the cellulose industry. Such waste paper is preferably newsprint, most of which consists of ground pulp or some other mechanical or chemo-mechanical pulp, i.e. with a high content of lignin and a smaller proportion of cellulose, whereas the present invention is in particular designed for such waste as cannot be used owing to its contents of other materials such as paper and cardboard lined or laminated with plastics, waxed paper, printed matter sized with glue not soluble in water, metallised paper, carbon paper, vegetable matter, food residues etc. emanating largely from domestic refuse.
Domestic refuse contains iron and other metals, stony material, glass, plastic, wood, paper, cardboard, corrugated cardboard, vegetable matter, food residues etc. and could in the past not be used in any other way but by combustion.
The invention will now be described in greater detail with reference to the accompanying block diagrams, figs. 1 and 2.
The waste is first finely broken down in a disintegrator 1 of any type whatsoever such as a hammer mill etc. Office paper which for reasons of security has been passed through a paper shredder can also be used with advantage, even if it includes carbonless copy paper and carbon paper.
In a plant 2 iron is removed from the fragmented waste by means of a magnetic separator, and other metals are removed by means of a metal detector. Finally the fragmented waste is wind-sifted in order to remove bits of glass, small stones and other impurities, and it is collected in a bin 3 from where it is fed, on a conveyor belt 4, to hydrolysis stage 9, see fig. 1.
Depending on the composition of the waste further defibration in a mill or refiner 5 may be necessary, see fig. 2.
In certain cases it may be advantageous to make a slurry of the disintegrated paper sc as to obtain a mass suitable for pumping, which is then pumped to the defibration stage, but in general this step is not necessary.
As regards defibration, an ordinary disc refiner will yield a good result, but a turbo refiner such as Asplund has proved to be particularly suitable and to produce very good defibration.
From the defibrator the mass is conveyed to a tank 6 prior to possible screening at 7. In the course of screening relatively large particles, some plastic fragments etc. are removed, and these can, together with the residues of the mash, be passed on for briquet- making or possibly returned to the defibration stage.
Following concentration in a thickener 6 the mass is conveyed to a hydrolysis stage 9, where the cellulose and other polysaccharides are broken down to simpler types of sugar. The hydrolysis can be brought about with the aid of some acid, sulphuric acid, hydrochloric acid, formic acid, sulphur dioxide etc. or also by enzymatic means. Enzymatic decomposition with the aid of immobilised enzymes has proved to be advantageous both as regards the result and in economic respects.
In a storage tank 10 the pH-value is adjusted to a value suitable for fermentation by neutralising with, for instance, lime.
Fermentation is carried out in large fermentation vats 11, where the given types of sugar are fermented to ethanol.
In 12 solid components are removed from the mash using sieves, filters, centrifuges or cyclones, ana the purified solution is conveyed to distillation stage 13.
The impurities contained in the mash such as the lignin, paper fillers, kaolin, titanium white, baryta white etc., waxes, plastics and other substances, do not interfere with the fermentation since under the prevailing conditions they are largely inert. Certain plastics can indeed dissolve to some extent in the alcohols formed, but this does not affect the distillation in any way.
The mash residues from purification are conveyed to a briquetting press 14, where, possibly together with the solid components from bins 7, they are pressed to briquets, which after drying can be used as fuel. The amount of non-combustible filling matter in the briquets depends on the raw materials used and may vary between a few and several times ten per cent, but in general the briquets will have a good combustion value. It may also be possible to recover yeast from the mash residues.
The ethanol which has been distilled off contains, in addition to a few per cent of water, also methanol, higher alcohols and esters, and it can, possibly after drying in order to reduce the water content, be used directly in motors.
At least a part of the residues after distillation may be returned to fermentation stage 11 for further fermentation or it may separately be subjected to refermentation and then purified and discharged to the drain.

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C l a i m s
1. Method for producing alcohol from cellulose-containing waste and residue material, characterised in that the material is disintegrated and freed from the major part of the relatively heavy impurities contained therein, such as iron scrap, other metallic objects, glass, stones etc., whereupon cellulose and other polysaccharides contained in the waste are hydrolysed to produce simpler types of sugar, which are fermented, the alcohol formed being distilled off.
2. Method according to claim 1, characterised in that the
cellulose-containing waste and residue material includes paper,
cardboard, carton and/or corrugated cardboard, laminated or lined with plastic and/or wax, carbon paper, publicity material of various types, vegetable matter, food residues and other materials containing
polysaccharides.
3. Method according to claim 1 or 2, characterised in that after disintegration and purification, the material is, prior to hydrolysis, finely dispersed.
4. Method according to claim 3, characterised in that after fine dispersal the material is screened and then hydrolysed.
5. Method according to any of the preceding claims, characterised in that, after hydrolysis and/or after fermentation, solid material is separated.
6. Method according to any of the preceding claims, characterised in that after pressing to e.g. briquets the separated, solid material is used by way of fuel.
7. Method according to any of the preceding claims, characterised in that alcohol distilled off is treated further for drying and/or removal of other substances.
8. Arrangement for producing alcohol from cellulose-containing waste and residue material, characterised by device (1) for
disintegrating the material, device (2) for removing the major part of relatively heavy impurities contained therein, such as iron scrap, other metallic objects, glass, stone, etc., hydrolyser (9) for breaking down cellulose and other polysaccharides to simpler types of sugar, fermenter (11) for fermenting the simpler types of sugar to alcohol and distillation plant (13) for distilling off the alcohol.
9. Arrangement according to claim 8, characterised by refiner (5) for fine dispersal of the material after disintegration and purification.
10. Arrangement according to claim 9, characterised by sieve (7) or another separator downstream of refiner (5).
11. Arrangement according to any of claims 8, 9 or 10,
characterised by separator(s) (12) for separating solid material after hydrolyser (9) and/or after fermenter (11).
12. Arrangement according to any of claims 8 to 11, characterised by a press such as briquet press (14) for the material separated from sieve (7) and/or separator or separators (12).
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