Thermomechanochemical waste treatment

A method for a thermomechanochemical (TMC) waste treatment, comprising:

• feeding a waste material to a TMC chamber from one or more containers housing the waste material in one or more of a liquid-solid state, a semi-wet or slurry solid state, and a dry solid state;
• processing the waste material at the TMC chamber by milling at elevated temperatures in a presence of co-milling reagents;
• and
• removing byproducts obtained after processing of the waste material at the TMC chamber via one or both of a disposal system and an emissions control module, wherein removing the byproducts include routing gaseous byproducts from the TMC chamber to the emissions control module by application of negative pressure via one or more negative pressure modules, the emissions control module including one or more of granulated activated carbon (GAC) filter, a catalyst, and a thermal oxidizer (TO) filter, the method further comprising, based on a level of pollutants in an output product of the GAC filter, recycling the output product to the TMC chamber for one or more cycles of processing.

A method for a thermomechanochemical (TMC) waste treatment, comprising:

• feeding a waste material to a TMC chamber from one or more containers housing the waste material in one or more of a liquid-solid state, a semi-wet or slurry solid state, and a dry solid state;
• processing the waste material at the TMC chamber by milling at elevated temperatures in a presence of co-milling reagents, wherein the co-milling reagents are added to the TMC chamber from a processing reagent subsystem, the co-milling reagents chemically reacting with the waste material during milling of the waste material via deaggregators included within the TMC chamber, wherein the deaggregators include one or more of milling balls, blades, blocks, and other impact devices, and wherein the co-milling reagents include one or more of silica (SiO2), potassium hydroxide (KOH), calcium oxide (CaO), and calcium hydroxide (Ca(OH)2);
• adjusting process parameters including an amount of the co-milling reagents added to the TMC chamber, a duration of milling, a temperature of the TMC chamber, and a duration of heating of the TMC chamber based on characteristics of the waste material, the characteristics including a size distribution of particles of the waste material, a chemical composition of the waste material, and an amount of moisture in the waste material;
• monitoring real-time process conditions including a first level of pollutants in the waste material at an inlet of the TMC chamber and a second level of pollutants in the waste material at an outlet of the TMC chamber via material sensors coupled to the TMC chamber, and adjusting the process parameters based on the first level and the second level of pollutants;
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• removing byproducts obtained after processing of the waste material at the TMC chamber via one or both of a disposal system and an emissions control module.