Pyrolytic incineration system

An incineration system comprising a cylindrical pyrolysis chamber designed to gasify waste materials, and havng a generally planar floor with a support ridge extending longitudinally down the center thereof and the sides of the interior of said chamber having longitudinal support grooves cut therein, the improvement comprising a flat hearth inside said chamber, said hearth supporting the waste materials to be burned and comprising a plurality of plates made of nonporous material, opposing sides of said plates being support edges, one of said edges on each plate being designed to sit on one of said support grooves and the opposing edge of each plate being designed to sit on said support ridge, each said plate having a plurality of apertures perpendicular to said plate and evenly distributed therein to provide fluid communication from the lower surface of each of said plate to its upper surface, a unitary cast nipple surrounding the upper edge of said said aperture on the upper surface of said plate each said nipple tapering upwardly from the surface of said plate to the upper edge of said said aperture.

An incineration system comprising a pyrolysis chamber designed to gasify waste materials, said chamber comprising a generally cylindrical wall and having a circular front head, the improvement comprising said front head of said chamber being bolted to said cylindrical wall and having a generally rectangular passageway therein, said passageway of said front head being covered by an access assembly vertically movable between a first lower position and second raised position and horizontally pivotable between a first closed position and a second open position, means for raising and lowering said access assembly, wherein when said access is in said lower position said assembly seals said interior of said chamber from the atmosphere.

An incineration system comprising a pyrolysis chamber designed to gasify waste materials, said chamber comprising a generally cylindrical wall and having a circular front head and a circular rear head, a flat hearth inside said chamber and elevated above the floor of said chamber, the improvement consisting of an assembly for providing preheated combustion air to said chamber and for cooling said cylindrical wall and said rear head of said pyrolysis chamber, said cooling assembly comprising a skirt mounted to the lower portion of said cylindrical wall and having an intake for atmospheric air, a plurality of lower inlets in each side of said cylindrical wall, a plurality of upper outlets in each side of said cylindrical wall, a curved wall segment mounted to the interior of each side of said cylindrical wall and connecting said lower inlets and upper outlets on respective sides of said cylindrical wall, a plenum on the upper portion of said cylindrical wall connecting said upper outlets, a fan mounted to said plenum designed to draw air through said intake, said inlets and said outlets to said plenum, a plurality of ducts in said rear head through which said fan directs the air, and a plurality of orifices at the bottom of said ducts designed to inject air into the interior of said chamber between said floor of said chamber and said hearth.

An incineration system comprising a pyrolysis chamber designed to gasify waste materials, said chamber having an upper opening for exhausting said gasified material from said chamber, the improvement in said system comprising a thermal reactor comprising a cylindrical premixing section connected to said upper opening of said chamber and having first air jets designed to inject a preselected amount of combustion air directed away from said upper opening into said premixing section and imparting an axial direction to the combustion air and gasified materials, a cylindrical ignitor section connected to said premixing section designed to ignite said gasified materials and combustion air while imparting a swirl in a first rotational direction, and further designed to inject an additional preselected amount of combustion air directed away from said premixing section through second air jets imparting a swirl in a second rotational direction, a frusto-conical expansion section designed to inject an additional preselected amount of combustion air directed away from said igniter section through third air jets imparting a swirl in said first rotational direction, and a cylindrical combustion section in which said combustion air and gasified materials may burn.