Systems, apparatus, and methods for treating waste materials
OwnerKaren Meyer Bertraminventor
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Abstract
A pyrolytic converter for treating waste materials has an elongated oven that has different channels. The different channels share the length of the elongated oven and divided to occupy different portions of a cross section of the oven. The pyrolytic converter also has a heating source that is configured to supply heat to a portion of the waste materials located within a channel at a specific temperature and to supply heat to another portion of the waste materials located within a different channel at a different temperature.
Claims11
A method of heating a pyrolytic converter having an elongated oven disposed within an outer shell, and at least first and second longitudinally oriented heating channels extending radially outward from an outer surface of the oven and disposed between the oven and outer shell, the method comprising:
- differentially supplying first and second flows of heated gas to front portions of the first and second heating channels;
- allowing the first and second flows of the heated gas to combine along an outer surface of a rear portion of the oven;
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- recirculating a portion of the combined flows of the heated gas between the oven and the outer shell.
A pyrolytic converter for treating waste materials, comprising:
- an elongated oven disposed within an outer shell;
- wherein the elongated oven has an outer surface comprising a plurality of support blades extending radially outward and disposed between the oven and the outer shell;
- the plurality of support blades oriented along a length of the oven, but having respective lengths less than the length of the oven, thereby defining at least first and second longitudinally oriented heating channels shorter than the length of the oven;
- a plurality of heat sinks disposed between first and second ones of the plurality of support blades, and longitudinally oriented along the outer surface of the oven;
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- a heating source configured to supply heat to a first portion of the waste materials located within the first channel at a first temperature and to supply heat to a second portion of the waste materials located within the second channel at a different, second temperature.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.