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TÜBİTAK Cat. Liq- Catalytic Hydrothermal Liquefaction Process from Pilot Scale to Demo Scale MEHMET UNSAL, HAYDAR LIVATYALI, PARVANA AKSOY, SERHAT GUL, ALPER ONOGLU International Congress and Expo on Biofuels & Bioenergy August 25 -27, 2015 Valencia, Spain 1

Our Team TÜBİTAK Altaca Energy is an alternative energy company who owns all the intellectual rights of the Cat. Liq® technology. TUBITAK Marmara Research Center Energy and Environment Institutes conduct the laboratory analyses and support the project as technical consultant in process and equipment design. Bogazici University Chemical and Mechanical Engineering Departments contribute to the project as a consultant in reaction engineering in process in Turkey

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LAB-SCALE PLANT TÜBİTAK Conditions Reaction time Feedstocks Supercritical water ~30 minutes All kinds of biomass, wet feedstocks, no drying required, 60 kg/h Chemistry Reactive water, like acetone solvent, deoxygenetion as carbondioxide 45% biocrude oil (%w on feedstock, dry basis), 25% gas, 20% unconverted carbon, 10% soluble organics in water phase. 70 -90% Products Thermal efficiency CATLIQ OIL ANALİZLERİ VE PROSES OPTİMİZASYONU 5

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Scale-up Hyrarcy TÜBİTAK • Flow diagram • Mass and energy balance • Process simulation and equipment design • CFD • Mechanical design • Stress analysis 7

Block Diagram TÜBİTAK 8

Heat exchangers, H/E-1 TÜBİTAK • Pressure 250 bar • Temperature from 80 to 341 C • 36 of Tube-in-tube • Designed by ASME div. 2 Sec. VIII • Pre-reaction is formed. 9

Heat exchangers, H/E-2 TÜBİTAK • P= 250 bar • T=341 to 380 C • 24 of shelltube • Designed by ASME div. 2 Sec. VIII 10

Wow! Flange… H/E-3 TÜBİTAK 11

Heat exchangers, H/E-3 TÜBİTAK • P= 250 bar • T=341 to 400 C • Shell-tube • Final-H/E • Molten salt • Designed by ASME div. 2 Sec. VIII 12

Heat exchangers, H/E- 4, 5 TÜBİTAK • Heat recovery • Steam production 13

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Reactors TÜBİTAK • Solid catalyst, its formula is belongs to Altaca • P= 250 bar • T=400 C • Shell-tube • Molten salt • Designed by ASME div. 2 Sec. VIII 15

Power central, 4 MWth TÜBİTAK 16

Conclusions TÜBİTAK • • • There is so many works to be done The start up scenario will be written The start up will be began and finalized From start up to steady-state phase Optimization for some values Dream project is an Catliq industrial scale design and manufacture finally 17

TÜBİTAK Thank you for your interest E-mail: mehmet. unsal@tubitak. gov. tr Website: www. mam. gov. tr 18