Thermal Depolymerization Process
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Thermal Depolymerization Process, TDP, is a new process that is made to handle almost any type of waste. It is supposed to turn things like turkey offal, tires, plastic bottles, computers, medical waste, and even biological weapons in valuable products. The waste is supposed to go in and come out as high quality oil, clean burning gas, and purified minerals. This can to a solution to three very big problems, waste, oil supply, and global warming. It is a process that the creators say works so well that it could make some toxic wastes problems history as well as depending on imported oil from the Middle East.
Making oil and gas from hydrocarbon based waste is something that the Earth has been doing for a long time since most crude oil come from plants and animals that have died, settled at the bottom of the ocean, decomposed and are mashed by sliding plates. Then the long chains of hydrogen, oxygen and carbon molecules are decompose into short chained petroleum hydrocarbons. This process generally takes thousands or millions of years due to heat and pressure changes. TDP is a lot faster and can also process a wider variety of products into useful oil. It can even grind up wet human waste into oil. If successful this process could change the way we get oil and what is done with waste. More than $12 million has been granted to push along this work that could change the economy.