Organic waste gasification processing and the production of alternative energy sources

A municipal waste gasification system comprising:

• a plurality of primary gasification chambers for receiving municipal waste and for producing an effluent by an oxygen-starved process;
• a means for operating the municipal waste gasification system so that one or more of the plurality of primary gasification chambers may be idle while other primary gasification chambers of plurality of primary gasification chambers are operating to produce the effluent by the oxygen-starved process;
• means for heating the municipal waste under oxygen-starved conditions in the plurality of primary gasification chambers in order to gasify the municipal waste and produce the effluent;
• a plurality of transfer tubes, positioned to receive the effluent produced by the plurality of primary gasification chambers, for receiving the effluent from the primary gasification chambers, there being one transfer tube for each gasification chamber;
• a common effluent duct, connected to the plurality of transfer tubes, for receiving the effluent from the transfer tubes;
• a mixing chamber, connected to the common effluent duct, for receiving the effluent from the common effluent duct;
• means for supplying an oxygen-containing gas to the effluent in the mixing chamber in order to produce a mixed effluent;
• a single secondary combustion chamber, positioned to receive the mixed effluent produced by the mixing chamber;
• means for incinerating the mixed effluent in the secondary combustion chamber;
• and
• a stack, positioned to receive waste gases exiting the secondary combustion chamber, for releasing waste gases exiting the secondary combustion chamber.