High protein organic materials as fuel and processes for making the same

A process for converting hazardous compounds to less hazardous substances within a traditional combustion chamber comprising the following steps:

• Pre-Combustion Steps 1 to 5
• 1) providing an auto-combustible organic fuel;
• 2) providing a non-auto-combustible organic material, wherein the organic material is a high protein organic material having a protein content of about 10%, on a dry weight basis (DWB) or greater;
• 3) optionally mechanically removing liquid and soluble components from the high protein organic material;
• 4) optionally applying heat to dry the organic material to reduce its moisture content to ten percent (10%) or less by weight;
• 5) pulverizing the high protein organic material to reduce the high protein organic material to a particle size of less than 2 mm, wherein the pre-combustion steps of 3) optionally mechanically removing liquid and soluble components from the high protein organic material, 4) optionally applying heat to dry the organic material to reduce its moisture content to ten percent (10%) or less by weight and, 5) pulverizing the high protein organic material to reduce the high protein organic material to a particle size of less than 2 mm may occur in any order;
• Combustion Steps 6 to 11
• 6) injecting the auto-combustible organic material into a combustion chamber;
• 7) spraying the non-auto-combustible high protein organic material into the combustion chamber through use of a pneumatic stoker to separate particles of the high protein organic material and inhibit their cohesion into an integrated mass during combustion;
• 8) simultaneously injecting steam into the combustion chamber to enhance combustion characteristics of the high protein organic material;
• 9) allowing protein thermal decomposition by-products to react with nitrogen oxides (NOX) within the combustion chamber to form water (H2O) and nitrogen (N2), wherein nitrogen oxide (NOX) production ranges from about 100 parts per million (ppm) to greater than 300 parts per million (ppm), wherein protein thermal decomposition by-products remaining after combustion include ammonium, nitrogenous hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen oxides (NOX), nitrogen cations, and nitrogen free radicals;
• 10) controlling protein thermal decomposition by-products including nitrogen oxide (NOX) production, produced during combustion within the combustion chamber;
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• 11) incinerating polyfluoro compound impurities present within the processed non-autocombustible high protein organic material in the combustion chamber and optionally, adding and incinerating additional polyfluoro compounds within the combustion chamber as an additional or alternative step, wherein the protein thermal decomposition by-products functions as a reactive species to incinerate polyfluoro compounds to degrade hazardous polyfluoro compounds into less hazardous substances.