Carbon capture system
OwnerMichael Barkenhagen, Robert R Mahoneyinventors
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Abstract
A method for processing plastics includes receiving input plastics to be processed. The method further includes driving the input plastics through a reactor chamber having at least two zones each containing heated fluid that is heated to greater temperatures in a subsequent zone such that remaining plastics of the input plastics are exposed to increasingly greater temperatures in each zone of the reactor chamber. The method also includes collecting condensable vapors that flow out of the at least two zones of the reactor chamber. The method further includes condensing the condensable vapors into a liquid condensate. The method also includes removing biochar products from the heated fluid. The method further includes removing contaminants from the reactor chamber.
Claims9
A method for processing plastics, the method comprising:
- receiving input plastics to be processed;
- driving the input plastics through a reactor chamber having at least two zones each containing heated fluid that is heated to greater temperatures in a subsequent zone such that remaining plastics of the input plastics are exposed to increasingly greater temperatures in each zone of the reactor chamber;
- collecting condensable vapors that flow out of the at least two zones of the reactor chamber;
- condensing the condensable vapors into a liquid condensate;
- removing char products from the heated fluid;
- and
- removing second contaminants from the reactor chamber,
- wherein the heated fluid includes a molten salt configured to separate according to a difference in density the second contaminants from first contaminants that convert to the char products in the reactor chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.