Device, method, and control system for sorting waste products
AssigneeNovastus, Inc.
InventorsKelly Warbis, Michael Idelchik
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Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure include devices, systems, methods, and control systems for sorting materials in a feedstock, the method including: receiving the feedstock; removing, via a magnet-based sorting device, magnetic materials from the feedstock; removing, via an eddy current-type sorting device, non-ferrous materials from the feedstock; and separating, via a ballistic separator, the feedstock into a first stream including two dimensional components and a second stream including three dimensional components.
Claims26
A method for processing a feedstock, the method comprising:
- controlling a flow of the feedstock provided to a mechanical pulverizer based on at least one characteristic of the feedstock;
- pulverizing the feedstock into fines and moisture, the fines comprising heavy fines and particulates;
- imparting airflow to communicate the fines to a fines separator;
- separating heavy fines from the particulates;
- communicating the particulates and moisture from the fines separator to a fines collector;
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- separating the particulates from the airflow and moisture exiting the fines collector.
A system for processing a feedstock into an output product having one or a plurality of variable preselected characteristics, the system comprising:
- a feeder configured to convey the feedstock;
- a mechanical pulverizer configured to receive the feedstock from the feeder and pulverize the feedstock received by the feeder into pulverized feedstock, wherein the pulverized feedstock includes one or more of heavy fines, particulates, moisture, or combinations thereof;
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- an air conveyor for conveying an air flow into the mechanical pulverizer and to draw the air flow from the mechanical pulverizer to a fines separator, wherein the air flow from the mechanical pulverizer includes at least a portion of the pulverized feedstock, wherein the at least a portion of the pulverized feedstock is conveyed by the air flow;
- one or more sensors configured to receive information indicative of at least one characteristic of the feedstock;
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- a controller configured to receive the information indicative of the at least one characteristic of the feedstock from the one or more sensors and control one or more selected from a group consisting of the feeder, the mechanical pulverizer, and the air conveyor based on the received information indicative of the at least one characteristic of the feedstock.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.