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US 4,890,563 AGranted
Treatment of waste and rotary kiln therefor
AssigneeNeutralysis Industries Pty. Ltd.
InventorsKenneth L. White, Harold B. Wight
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Abstract
Method and apparatus for treating waste materials to produce aggregates wherein pellets comprised of a mixture of solids, liquid wastes and clay are dried by hot air in a dryer. The pellets are then fed to the pyrolysis zone of a rotary kiln wherein they are heated by hot gas from an oxidation zone of the kiln to drive off most of the volatile gases. Remaining volatile gases and the fixed carbon in the waste are oxidized in the oxidation zone, and the silicates in the clay are vitrified in a vitrification zone of the kiln to produce aggregates which are crushed and screened. Volatile gases given off from the pyrolysis zone are mixed with exhaust gases from the dryer to feed the burner for the vitrification zone and to supply oxygen to the oxidation zone.
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A method for the treatment of waste materials including the steps of:
- mixing solid and/or liquid wastes with a binding material;
- passing the mixture through an extruder to form pellets of waste;
- passing the pellets through a dryer, and directing a countercurrent flow of hot gas through said drying from at least one of the zones of a kiln located downstream of said dryer;
- passing the pellets through a pyrolysis zone in the kiln to drive off at least a portion of the volatile gases in the waste;
- passing the pellets through an oxidation zone in the kiln where the excess oxygen causes the remaining volatile gases and at least a portion of the fixed carbon in the waste to be oxidized;
- passing the pellets through a vitrification zone in the kiln to vitrify the silicates present in the pellets to form a solid aggregate, and wherein
- exhaust wherein gas from said dryer is split into two streams, at least one of the streams being fed to the oxidation and/or vitrification zones of the kiln.
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A method for the treatment of waste materials including the steps of:
- mixing solid and/or liquid wastes with a binding material;
- passing the mixture through an extruder to form pellets of waste;
- passing the pellets through a pyrolysis zone in a kiln to drive off at least a portion of the volatile gases in the waste;
- passing the pellets through an oxidation zone in the kiln where the excess oxygen causes the remaining volatile gases and at least a portion of the fixed carbon in the waste to be oxidized;
- passing the pellets through a vitrification zone in the kiln to vitrify the silicates present in the pellets to form a solid aggregate, and wherein
- the pellets are heated to approximately 650.degree. C. in the pyrolysis zone to drive off the volatile gases, the pyrolysis zone being heated by the combustion of at least a portion of the volatile gases and by hot gases from the oxidation zone.
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A method for the treatment of waste materials including the steps of:
- mixing solid and/or liquid wastes with a binding material;
- passing the mixture through an extruder to form pellets of waste;
- passing the pellets through a pyrolysis zone in a kiln to drive off at least a portion of the volatile gases in the waste;
- passing the pellets through an oxidation zone in the kiln where the excess oxygen causes the remaining volatile gases and at least a portion of the fixed carbon in the waste to be oxidized;
- passing the pellets through a vitrification zone in the kiln to vitrify the silicates present in the pellets to form a solid aggregate, and wherein
- the remaining volatile gases and the fixed carbon are combusted at below 1,000.degree. C. in the oxidation zone, the oxidation zone being heated by the oxidation of the volatile gases and the fixed carbon by some of the volatile gases from the pyrolysis zone supplied as fuel gas to the oxidation zone.
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A method for the treatment of waste materials including the steps of:
- mixing solid and/or liquid wastes with a binding material;
- passing the mixture through an extruder to form pellets of waste;
- passing the pellets through a dryer;
- passing the pellets through a pyrolysis zone in a kiln to drive off at least a portion of the volatile gases in the waste;
- passing the pellets through an oxidation zone in the kiln where the excess oxygen causes the remaining volatile gases and at least a portion of the fixed carbon in the waste to be oxidized;
- passing the pellets through a vitrification zone in the kiln to vitrify the silicates present in the pellets to form a solid aggregate, and wherein
- silicates in the pellets are vitrified at 1,200.degree. C..+-.200.degree. C. in the vitrification zone, the heat in the vitrification zone being provided by combustion of the volatile gas from the pyrolysis zone supplied as fuel gas to the vitrification zone and from the exhaust gases from the dryer supplied as combustion air.
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A method for the treatment of waste materials including the steps of:
- mixing solid and/or liquid wastes with a binding materials;
- forming pellets of waste material from said mixture;
- passing the pellets through a pyrolysis zone in a kiln to drive off at least a portion of the volatile gases in the waste;
- passing the pellets through an oxidation zone in the kiln where the excess oxygen causes the remaining volatile gases and at least a portion of the fixed carbon in the waste to be oxidized;
- passing the pellets through a vitrification zone in furnace or kiln to vitrify the silicates present in the pellets to form a solid aggregate, and wherein
- the volatile gases from the pyrolysis zone are used a fuel gas for combustion in the oxidation and/or vitrification zones.
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A rotary kiln for treatment of waste materials, comprising:
- means defining a pyrolysis zone adapted to receive pellets of solid and/or liquid waste mixed with a binding material, and means for heating said pellets in said zone to drive off at least a portion of the volatile gases contained in the waste;
- means defining an oxidation zone downstream of said pyrolysis zone in which an excess oxygen environment causes the remaining volatile gases and at least a portion of the fixed carbon in the waste to be oxidized;
- means defining a vitrification zone downstream of said oxidation zone in which silicates in the pellets are vitrified to form a solid aggregate, and
- means for delivering said volatile gases formed in said pyrolysis zone to said oxidation and vitrification zones to be used as fuel gas therein, said fuel gas supplying the fuel for the process.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.