Method and apparatus for disposing of waste material
AssigneeNew Clear Energy, Inc.
InventorsRalph F. Greene, Patrick C. Malone
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Abstract
A waste disposal system (10) which provides for the destruction of solid and liquid waste materials, through a controlled and monitored flow, from the loading of the material to be processed to the expulsion of clean nontoxic and sterile air and inert solid residue. The system includes; a waste loading module (30), a shredding module (33), an injection module (34), a first combustion chamber (40), a second combustion chamber (50), a first cooling module (60), an electrostatic module (701), a reducing catalyst module (70), an oxidizing catalyst module (80), a liquid filtering module (90), a neutralization module (100) and a second cooling module (101).
Claims18
A waste disposal apparatus comprising:
- a first combustion chamber for incinerating waste material in an oxygen rich atmosphere to produce ash and exhaust containing gasses and particulate matter;
- an injector for blowing air into said first combustion chamber in excess of the amount required for normal combustion;
- a second combustion chamber for firing said exhaust containing gasses and particulate matter in an oxygen starved atmosphere;
- a damper for restricting air flow into said second combustion chamber to an amount less than that required for normal combustion;
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- a liquid filter for capturing said particulate matter contained in said fired exhaust and for chemically treating said fired exhaust gasses to reduce the quantity of CO, NO and SO contained in said fired exhaust.
A waste disposal system comprising:
- means for reducing said waste material and for feeding said reduced material to said first combustion means;
- a first combustion means for incinerating said reduced waste material in an oxygen rich atmosphere to produce an exhaust containing gasses and particulate matter;
- means for blowing air into said first combustion means in an amount greater than that required for normal combustion;
- a second combustion means for firing said exhaust containing gasses and particulate matter in an oxygen starved atmosphere;
- means for controlling air flowing into said second combustion means to an amount less than that required for normal combustion;
- means for removing particles from said first exhaust;
- first means for treating said fired exhaust to remove oxides of nitrogen;
- second means for treating said fired exhaust to accelerate oxidizing reactions in said fired exhaust;
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- liquid filter means for capturing said particulate matter contained in said fired exhaust and for chemically treating said fired exhaust gasses to reduce CO, NO, HCL and SO.sub.2 contained in said fired exhaust.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.