Early 21st century Dr. Christian Koch succeeded with the ingenious breakthrough for highly efficient and not polluting method of conversion of organic material in full diesel (EN 590). In the unpressurized low temperature process produces no toxic gases, there are no chimneys and exhaust gas torches. There is nothing burned.
Leader in the research on this technique for more than 40 years, amongst others with SIEMENS, was Dr. Koch, the owner of patents for KDV process and CEO of Alphakat GmbH, Buttenheim and Eppendorf. The intensively operated research and development in recent years at Alphakat GmbH has today led to a state of the art, which ensures the highest standard quality of the diesel oil, as well as the efficiency of the plants.
Globally there is no provider that can offer such a state of the art technology.
The production of petroleum from organic material is researched and operated for over a hundred years. So far it works only with very low efficiency and serious pollution.
• 1913 Friedrich Bergius discovered such a method.
• 1923 Tropsch and Fischer developed the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process.
The aim was to allow the oil poor Germany a self-supply of diesel oil for fuel supply and chemistry. The efficiency and environmental impact remained largely disregarded. International was based on the FT process intensively eg research at VEBA and Ruhrkohle AG and developed. In Germany, operating plants have been shut down years ago due to low efficiency and high pollution according to this principle. In example, But SA, United States and China will continue to build and operate such facilities. If the process efficiency due to high process temperatures, with approximately 30 to 50%, however, is totally inadequate and continues to lead to huge waste of valuable resources and great pollution.