Blackwater Treatment

A system for treating blackwater, comprising:

• a pyrolysis chamber configured to receive a blackwater slurry, comprising blackwater solids, water, and volatiles;
• the pyrolysis chamber further configured to heat the blackwater slurry, thereby producing steam, separating at least a portion of the volatiles, and pyrolyzing the blackwater solids, passing the steam and the separated volatiles out of the pyrolysis chamber;
• a condensing heat exchanger configured to receive the steam and separated volatiles and condense the steam and at least a portion of the separated volatiles as a contaminated water stream;
• the condensing heat exchanger further configured to add a water-clarifying chemical into the contaminated water stream, wherein the water-clarifying chemical reacts with the separated volatiles, resulting in a treated water stream.

A system for treating blackwater, comprising:

• a pyrolysis chamber configured to receive a blackwater slurry, comprising blackwater solids, water, and volatiles;
• the pyrolysis chamber further configured to heat the blackwater slurry, thereby producing steam, and pyrolyzing the blackwater solids, passing the steam out of the pyrolysis chamber;
• a condensing heat exchanger configured to receive the steam and condense the steam;
• wherein the pyrolysis chamber is configured to heat the slurry to evaporate the water in the slurry passing the water into the condensing heat exchanger;
• wherein once the steam has passed into the condensing heat exchanger the slurry is further heated, and volatiles are separated from the slurry, and the separated volatiles are sent to the burner to be burned with the fuel heating the pyrolysis chamber.