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US 11,697,157 B2Granted
Incineration apparatus and method
AssigneeDoosan Lentjes GmbH
InventorsOguzhan Narin, Björn Brosch, Andreas Karpinski
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Abstract
The invention relates to an Incineration apparatus, comprising a fluidized bed redox reactor (2) having—a reaction chamber (8) with particulate matter and—a fluidized bottom with at least one reducing agent inlet (9) for a gas to fluidize the particulate matter.
Claims10
An incineration apparatus comprising:
- a fluidized bed redox reactor having:
- a reaction chamber with particulate matter comprising particulate metal oxide, and
- a fluidized bottom with a reducing agent inlet for a gas to fluidize the particulate matter;
- a fluidized bed combustor having:
- a combustion chamber with particulate matter comprising particulate metal,
- a fluidized bottom with an oxidizer inlet for an oxygen containing gas to fluidize the particulate matter, and
- an ignition device embodied to at least locally raise the temperature within the combustion chamber to cause an exothermic combustion reaction of the particulate metal with the oxygen containing gas;
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- an electrolysis unit for producing hydrogen gas and oxygen having:
- a hydrogen outlet for the produced hydrogen gas, and
- an oxygen outlet for the produced oxygen,
- wherein the oxygen outlet is connected to the oxidizer inlet of the fluidized bed combustor and the hydrogen outlet is connected to the reducing agent inlet of the fluidized bed redox reactor, so that the hydrogen containing gas fluidizes the particulate matter comprising particulate metal oxide, and
- wherein in the resulting fluidized bed the particulate metal oxide reacts with the hydrogen gas to produce particulate metal and water.
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A method for operating an incineration apparatus, the method comprising:
- providing particulate metal oxide to a reaction chamber of a fluidized bed redox reactor,
- providing a gas to a fluidized bottom of the fluidized bed redox reactor such that the particulate metal oxide is fluidized,
- providing particulate metal to a combustion chamber of a fluidized bed combustor,
- providing an oxygen containing gas to a fluidized bottom of the fluidized bed combustor such that particulate matter comprising the particulate metal is fluidized,
- raising at least locally the temperature within the combustion chamber to cause an exothermic combustion reaction of the particulate metal with the oxygen containing gas,
- operating an electrolysis unit to produce oxygen and hydrogen gas,
- providing the produced hydrogen gas as hydrogen containing gas to the reaction chamber of the fluidized bed redox reactor, wherein the particulate metal oxide reacts with the hydrogen gas to produce particulate metal and water, and
- providing the produced oxygen as the oxygen containing gas to the combustion chamber of the fluidized bed combustor.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.