Recovered solid waste storage building and method

A method especially adapted for the storage and retrieval of large volumes of recovered combustible shredded particulate fibrous flocculant municipal waste fuel material, comprising:

• storing a large volume of said material in, and retrieving and discharging the material from a large material volume capacity elongate material storage bin space over a material supporting area having opposite elongate sides and opposite ends, within a housing having a roof at a substantial height above said supporting area over said bin space;
• filling said material into said bin space to a substantial depth throughout the length and breadth of said supporting area by operating a loading conveyor system adjacently under said roof at the top of said bin space in a progressive cycle starting at one end of said area and continuing throughout the length and breadth of said area to the opposite end of said area;
• starting a material retrieval unloading cycle by discharging a full depth increment of the material from said supporting area along said one end of said area;
• receiving and handling the material discharged along said one end of said supporting area;
• continuing the retrieval discharge of material from said supporting area in sequence after said starting and discharging full depth increments of the material from said supporting area progressively at a plurality of places along one side of said area starting adjacent to said one end and advancing place-by-succeeding-place to said opposite end;
• receiving and handling the material discharged at said places along said side;
• and performing said starting and continuing of the retrieval and discharge of material in a progressive cycle trailing and following the loading cycle throughout the length of said storage area, so that there is assurance that the full depth of material loaded into the bin space by said loading conveyor system will be retrieved and discharged from the bin space in a first in, first out sequence throughout the length and breadth of said supporting area in each material retrieval and discharge cycle.

A method of storing and supplying solid discrete recovered combustible shredded particulate fibrous flocculant municipal waste fuel material, comprising:

• storing a large volume of such fuel in, and retrieving and discharging such fuel from, a large elongate material supporting area having opposite long sides and opposite ends and enclosed by a housing having upstanding walls rising to a substantial height along said sides and ends of the supporting area and bounded by said area, walls and roof;
• said storing comprising operating a loading conveyor system adjacently under said roof at the top of said space and loading said fuel material into said space to a substantial depth onto said area in a cycle starting at one end of said space and continuing to the opposite end of said space;
• and operating unloading means within said housing and thereby progressively retrieving and discharging and clearing out the material from said space by progressive full depth increments starting at said one end of said space and working successively to said other end of said space in a cycle which trails and follows said loading cycle;
• so that in cyclical sequence there is a substantially complete progressive clearing out and replacement of the full depth of material from said bin space throughout the length and breadth of said supporting area in each cycle, and thus the first material loaded into the bin space is always the first material discharged from the bin space.