RDPower S.r.l. Dr. Emilio Dr. Simone Arca D’Alessandro (CEO) (CEO) Company headquarter: Strada delle Campore 11/13 05100 Terni (TR) - ITALY RDPower S.r.l. @ 2015
RDPower S.r.l. RDPower S.r.l. R&D activities Gas Hydrates technology R&D services for Oil&gas Companies: inhibition during well drilling and transportation Development of a new gas mixture separation technology for biofuel industry Supercritical-CO2 R&D services for SC-CO2 extraction tests from various matrix Waste material recycling Development of new recycling processes based on high pressure fluids (WO-Patent pending on end life tire recycling into new bituminous products) RDPower S.r.l. @ 2015
Water in super-critical conditions RDPower S.r.l. Water in super-critical conditions RDPower S.r.l. @ 2015
Hydrotermal flame in SCWO-HF RDPower S.r.l. Hydrotermal flame in SCWO-HF RDPower S.r.l. @ 2015
SCWO-HF small scale plant - SPAIN RDPower S.r.l. SCWO-HF small scale plant - SPAIN Collaboration with HIGH PRESSURE PROCESSES GROUP Chemical Engineering and Environmental Technology Dept. University of Valladolid System load capacity: 25Kg/h RDPower S.r.l. @ 2015
Detail of SCWO-HF Reactor RDPower S.r.l. Detail of SCWO-HF Reactor RDPower S.r.l. @ 2015
Simulated sludge treatment test RDPower S.r.l. Simulated sludge treatment test Treatment results - Syntetic Sludge composition: Cellulose dispersion in water (6%) + ammonium hydroxide (1%) + soluble coffe to simulate colour - Real Sludge from Valladolid wastewater treatment plant: COD= 63’000 ppm - Max TOC reduction: from 140000 ppm to 70ppm (reduction of 99.95%) - Ammonium: from 8200ppm to 0.3ppm (reduction of 99.998%) - No emission of NOx and SOx - T = 600 °C - Treatment time: 30 seconds - Oxidant: Air Co-fuel: isopropyl alcohol (IPA) (9%) RDPower S.r.l. @ 2015
RDPower S.r.l. Batch reactors used for SCWO tests – RDPower S.r.l. Stainless steel - AISI 316-Ti RDPower S.r.l. @ 2015
Destruction test of eggs used in vaccine production RDPower S.r.l. Destruction test of eggs used in vaccine production COD= 450’000 ppm Calorific power = 5992 kJ/kg Oxidant: H2O2 near stechiometric concentration T = 500 °C Complete destruction of organic phase RDPower S.r.l. @ 2015
RDPower S.r.l. Near-supercritical water treatments PET de-polymerization for monomer recycling Wood cellulose de-polymerization for bio-energy production RDPower S.r.l. @ 2015
RDPower S.r.l. Thank you ! RDPower S.r.l. @ 2012