Waste reclamation system for pelletizing fuel pellets
AssigneeMaterials Recycling Management Ltd.
InventorRichard S. Moore
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Abstract
A system is proposed for the treatment of essentially all the wastes arising in a community, and for recovering useable products therefrom, based on a combination of pre-sorting and mechanical and manual separation. Clean dry secondary organic wastes such as paper and textiles are separately baled for re-use, contaminated secondary organic wastes are prepared for re-use as fuel; primary organic waste such as wood and other vegetable matter is prepared, as appropriate, as fuel, as compost or for re-use as wood chips. Mixed wastes are separated by size and by density according to the ease of separation and the increased re-use potential of the separated as opposed to the mixed materials.
Claims9
A method for the reclamation of wastes comprising
- (a) assembling at a waste reclamation center dry secondary organic wastes that have been separated into
- generally uncontaminated waste,
- waste contaminated with lesser amounts of extraneous matter, and
- waste contaminated with greater amounts of extraneous matter,
- (b) transferring said generally uncontaminated waste in a first processing line to a packing zone within the center, and packaging same for primary reuse,
- (c) transferring said lesser contaminated waste in a second processing line to a pelletizing zone within the center and pelletizing the same for reuse as a fuel, and
- (d) in a third processing line separating from the waste contaminated with greater amounts of extraneous matter
- (1) components suitable for use in step (b), and
- (2) components suitable for use in step (c), and
- (e) transferring said components (1) and (2) to said first and second processing lines respectively.
Apparatus for waste reclamation comprising
- (a) packing means for dry secondary organic waste,
- (b) conveyor means for transferring dry secondary organic waste from a first collection zone to said packing means and from said packing means to a first dispatch zone,
- (c) means for pelletizing dry secondary organic waste into fuel pellets,
- (d) conveyor means for transferring lesser-contaminated waste from a second collection zone to said pelletizing means and from said pelletizing zone to a second dispatch zone,
- (e) means for separating components of greater-contaminated waste,
- (f) conveyor means for transferring greater-contaminated wastes from a third collection zone to said separating means, and
- (g) separate conveyor means for transferring separated components of said greater-contaminated wastes to said packing means and to said pelletizing means.
A method for the reclamation of wastes at a waste reclamation center comprising
- (a) transferring primary organic waste from a first collection zone to a chipping means,
- (b) chipping the said waste and transferring the chipped waste from said chipping means to a first dispatch zone in a first processing line,
- (c) transferring primary organic waste from the first processing line to compressing means,
- (d) compressing the said primary waste into fuel briquettes,
- (e) transferring the briquettes to a second dispatch zone in a second processing line, and
- (f) transferring other organic wastes from a second collection zone to a compost zone and converting said other wastes into compost.
Apparatus in a waste reclamation center comprising
- (a) chipping means for primary organic waste,
- (b) first conveyor means for transferring the organic waste from a first collection zone to said chipping means and from said chipping means to a first dispatch zone,
- (c) means for compressing organic waste into fuel briquettes, and
- (d) second conveyor means for transferring primary organic waste from said first conveyor means to said compressing means and from said compressing means to a second dispatch zone.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.