Reactor and Method for Gasifying and/or Cleaning a Starting Material

Abstract

The invention relates to a reactor for gasifying and/or cleaning a starting material (12), especially for depolymerizing plastic material (12), wherein the reactor comprises: a reactor vessel (14) for receiving the starting material (12), especially the plastic material (12); a metal bath (26) which is arranged in the reactor vessel (14) and includes a liquid metallic material having a metal bath melting temperature (TSchmelz); a plurality of filling elements (25) which are at least partially arranged in the metal bath (26); and a heater, especially an induction heater (18) for heating the starting material in the reactor vessel (14). According to the invention, a metal bath intermediate storage device (52) is provided and is connected to the reactor vessel (14) and is designed to remove at least part of the metal bath (26) from the reactor vessel (14) and to return the metal bath (26) to the reactor vessel (14), and comprises a delivery device (64) for delivering the metal bath (26), the delivery device (64) having a pressure increasing unit (60) by means of which the metal bath (26) can be delivered by applying the gas pressure (p).

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