Energy and steel recovery system
AssigneeSymbiotic Technology LLC
InventorsRobert L. Kohnen, Dale Van Fossen, Michael Linton
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Abstract
An energy and steel recovery system has a suspension column and a plurality of suspension supports operably disposed therein wherein the supports are spaced from one another along the length of thereof. The suspension column includes a mechanism for receiving tires and other wastes with an energy value onto one of the supports and feeding the tires to an adjacent downwardly disposed support to further gasify the same under low oxygen to preclude combustion. The column is configured to provide for a number of zones including heating, drying, volatizing, and fixed carbon formation which are collectively referred to herein as a “fractionation process.”
Claims22
An energy recovery system for waste fuel, which includes
- a suspension column which is maintained under low oxygen to enable fractionization of the waste fuel;
- a plurality of suspension supports for suspending waste fuel in said suspension column;
- a receiving mechanism for receiving the waste fuel onto one of said suspension supports upwardly disposed within said column and feeding said processable waste material to an adjacent downwardly disposed suspending support;
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- a gasifying apparatus operably connected to said suspension column for gasifying the waste fuel with a stream of gas having a sufficiently low oxygen content to preclude combustion of the waste fuel therein.
A method of producing energy recovery, comprising:
- (a) delivering waste fuel onto an upwardly disposed suspension device which is operably disposed in a suspension column, wherein said suspension column includes a plurality of suspension devices operably disposed in said suspension column wherein said suspension devices are spaced from one another along the length of said suspension column;
- (b) performing a step in a fractionation process on said waste fuel within said column and feeding said waste fuel onto to an adjacent downwardly disposed suspension device further gasify said processable material while maintaining low oxygen to preclude combustion of the waste material therein;
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- (c) capturing energy liberated from performing said fractionation step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.