Cassandra Oil (CSSOF)

[Ubertino]

Here is Blowdec's US patent:

United States Patent 6,165,349 Madar December 26, 2000

Process for thermal and/or catalytic decomposition and/or depolymerization of low-grade organic substances and device for carrying out the process

What is claimed is:

1. A process of decomposition of low-grade organic substances, which comprises the steps of:

(a) introducing a quantity of solid particles into a cylindrical reaction chamber having an axis and an inward facing wall;

(b) introducing a quantity of low-grade organic substances into said reaction chamber;

(c) whirling a rotor within said chamber about said axis and adjacent said inward facing wall so as to impact, fluidize and whirl said solid particles and form a whirling bed of said solid particles about said axis by intensive rotational mechanical agitation throughout a major portion of an annular region of said reaction chamber adjacent said wall; and

(d) intensely agitating said substances, at a temperature within a range of from about 150 to about 700 degrees Centigrade and at a pressure within a range of from about 0.1 MPa to about 2.5 MPa, by contacting said substances with said whirling rotor and intermixing said substances with said whirling, bed of solid particles.

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6165349.PN.&OS=PN/6165349&RS=PN/6165349

IMHHO, this patent dominates what CASO is offering and thus, in the USA, at least, CASO needs Blowdec's OK to operate in the USA. Perhaps that is why CASO has no US operations?