NOVELTY - An apparatus has a heater, a reactor, and coolers (I, II). The heater receives and heats the organic liquor to produce a mixture of liquid and vaporized oil. The reactor receives and converts the mixture into carbon solids and a mixture of hydrocarbon vapors and gases. One cooler (I) accepts the carbon solids, and the other cooler (II) accepts the mixture of hydrocarbon vapors and gases.    USE - Used for converting organic liquor into a mixture of hydrocarbons and carbon solids (claimed), e.g. for converting organic liquor derived from poultry-offal, animal manure, municipal sewage sludge, tires, grease, vegetable oil, plastics, by-products of food manufacture, fryer oils, corn stalks, rice hulls, waste scraps, last-press edible oils of canola, soybean, palm, coconut, rape seed, cotton seed, corn and olive, food-processing wastes, seafood-industry wastes, by-products of paper and other wood industries, cellulose and lignin by-products, paper-pulp effluent, yard waste, such as leaves and grass, harbor-dredged sediments, old computers, oil-refinery residues, industrial sludge, bagasse, seaweeds, milling wastes, black liquor, coal-refinery wastes, tar sands, shale oil, drilling mud, cotton wastes, agricultural-processing wastes, infectious medical wastes, biological pathogens, and anthrax spores used for making biological weapons, into useful materials, such as gas, oil, fertilizers and chemicals.    ADVANTAGE - The apparatus finds application in the processing of waste and low-value products to produce useful materials in reliable purities and compositions, at acceptable cost, without producing mal odorous emissions, and with high energy efficiency. The apparatus even processes sludge with a wide range of particle characteristics, including those with deformable suspended solids in the size range below 1 microns, or those having densities within 10% of the suspending fluid. The apparatus can be used in a multi-stage process, and can also be scaled according to the need. The apparatus provides useful products free of DNA and pathogens. The apparatus provides plants which handle many thousands of tons of waste per day, as well as portable plants which could be transported on the back of a flatbed truck and which may handle one ton of waste per day.    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - An INDEPENDENT CLAIM is included for the conversion of organic liquor into a mixture of hydrocarbons and carbon solids.    DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING(S) - DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING - The figure shows a flowchart of the conversion of organic liquor into a mixture of hydrocarbons and carbon solids.