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US 2020/0385273 A1Published application
Apparatus and method of producing activated carbon material
AssigneeByGen PTY LTD
InventorsLewis Dunnigan, Philip Kwong, Jon Adam Marshall, Benjamin Morton
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method of producing activated carbon material in a reactor from carbonised material using at least in part the flue gas from another reactor pyrolytically producing the carbonised material from a feed material.
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A method of producing activated carbon material, the method including the steps of:
- inputting a feed material into a first reactor;
- pyrolytically producing a carbonised material in the first reactor from the feed material and producing volatile gas from the first reactor;
- routing at least part of the volatile gas to a first combustion chamber and combusting the volatile gas therein to provide heat for the first reactor to pyrolytically produce the carbonised material, and producing flue gas from the first combustion chamber;
- routing at least part of the flue gas to a second reactor;
- inputting the carbonised material from the first reactor into the second reactor;
- producing an activated carbon material in the second reactor from the carbonised material using at least in part the flue gas in the second reactor;
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- outputting the activated carbon material from the second reactor.
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An apparatus for producing activated carbon material, the apparatus including:
- a first reactor for pyrolytically producing a carbonised material, having:
- an input port at a proximal end of the first reactor for receiving a feed material;
- an output port at a distal end of the first reactor for outputting a carbonised material pyrolytically produced in the first reactor from the feed material;
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- a volatile gas outlet for outputting volatile gas produced in the first reactor;
- a first combustion chamber configured to receive at least part of the volatile gas routed from the volatile gas outlet of the first reactor via a volatile gas conduit, the first combustion chamber combusting the volatile gas therein to provide heat for the first reactor to pyrolytically produce the carbonised material and producing flue gas from the first combustion chamber, wherein the first combustion chamber has a flue gas outlet for outputting the flue gas produced in the first combustion chamber;
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- a second reactor for producing an activated carbon material, having:
- an input port at a proximal end of the second reactor for receiving the carbonised material from the output port of the first reactor;
- a flue gas inlet for receiving at least part of the flue gas routed from the first combustion chamber from flue gas outlet of the first reactor via a flue gas conduit;
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- an output port at a distal end of the second reactor for outputting an activated carbon material produced in the second reactor from the carbonised material using at least in part the flue gas in the second reactor.
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