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US 5,846,385 AGranted
Process and apparatus for energy recovering through waste classification and calcination
OwnerSzu Jeng Chieninventor
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Abstract
The invention provide a process for energy recovering through waste classification and calcination and an apparatus therefor, comprises crushing and sorting various types of wastes and by means of a series of classification, calcination and recovering treatments, recovering and reusing efficiently fuel oil, fuel gas and residues as well as electric power and heat required for the apparatus in the self-supplying feedback system of the invention, and additionally, lowering successfully the possibility of secondary pollution from wastes disposal.
Claims4
An apparatus for energy recovering through waste classification and calcination, comprises
- a crusher, crushing wastes into broken species, and sorting said broken wastes based on their specific gravities into:
- mixed wastes, organic waste and light weight wastes, wherein said mixed wastes can be disposed by landfill;
- a calcination furnace, calcining said organic wastes and light weight wastes, comprising
- a cracking furnace, provided at an appropriate place inside said calcination furnace, and being equipped with a lid at top thereof for introducing said light weight wastes, a heavy oil line for introducing heavy oil to mix and crack said plastics wastes, a oil gas line for recovering oil gas generated from cracking of said melted plastics in said light weight wastes;
- a burning plate, provided at a proper place below said cracking furnace, and being equipped with a air line, a gas line and a waste conveying line, where organic wastes being spreaded on said burning plate via said waste conveying line and mixed with air and gas charged from said air line and said gas line respectively, thereby said organic wastes on said burning plate being subject to calcinating treatment such that high temperature heat generated therefrom being able to transfer indirectly to said cracking furnace above for melting and vaporizing said plastics into oil gas which is discharged via said oil gas line;
- a reactor, receiving and heating said oil gas under controlled pressure to cleave molecules as an irreversible reaction,
- a cooler, stepwise cooling said products obtained in said reactor to near ambient temperature to condense said products;
- a settling tank, settling down said condensed products obtained from said reactor;
- an oil/gas separating tank, separating said products into a crude oil and a fuel gas;
- a fractionating column, heating said crude oil;
- a cooler, cooling said crude oil;
- a distiller, stepwise distilling said crude oil and collecting and storing respective distillates;
- washing tanks, pickling, neutralizing and removing contaminants in said distillates to obtain pure diesel and gasoline;
- whereas fuel gas can be pressure liquified to be stored or packed in cylinders for marketing or used as heat sources for said apparatus.
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