# US 9,038,932 B2 · Apparatus and method for fuelizing inflammable waste

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- Number: US 9,038,932 B2
- Document ID: US9038932B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 13/057,997
- Filed: 2009-08-05
- Published: 2011-06-23
- Granted: 2015-05-26
- Earliest claimed: 2008-08-08
- Assignees: Taiheiyo Cement Corporation
- Applicants: Shinichiro Saito; Hajime Wada
- Inventors: Shinichiro Saito; Hajime Wada
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9038932B2

## CPC

- B02C 18/0084: {specially adapted for disintegrating garbage, waste or sewage}
- B02C 18/146: {with a rotor comprising a plurality of axially contiguous disc-like segments each having at least one radially extending cutting element}
- B02C 21/00: Disintegrating plant with or without drying of the material (for grain B02C9/04)
- B02C 23/08: Separating or sorting of material, associated with crushing or disintegrating (B02C23/18 takes precedence {; beater mills combined with sifting devices B02C13/13, B02C13/14; for tumbling mills B02C17/1835})
- B03B 9/06: specially adapted for refuse
- B03C 1/03: rotating, e.g. of the carousel type
- B03C 1/06: with magnets moving during operation
- C10L 5/48: on industrial residues and waste materials {(C10L5/403, C10L5/406 take precedence)}
- F23G 5/02: with pretreatment
- B03C 2201/20: Magnetic separation of bulk or dry particles in mixtures
- F23G 2201/602: different sizes
- F23G 2201/80: Shredding
- Y02E 50/30: Fuel from waste, e.g. synthetic alcohol or diesel
- Y02P 70/10: Greenhouse gas [GHG] capture, material saving, heat recovery or other energy efficient measures, e.g. motor control, characterised by manufacturing processes, e.g. for rolling metal or metal working
- Y02W 30/52: Mechanical processing of waste for the recovery of materials, e.g. crushing, shredding, separation or disassembly
- Y02W 30/62: Plastics recycling; Rubber recycling
- B02C: CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING IN GENERAL; MILLING GRAIN ({household tools and machines for pulverising foodstuffs, e.g. coffee and spice mills A47J42/00; pharmaceutical mortars A61J3/02; mechanical processing of refuse and garbage B03B9/06; dressing mould materials by grinding B22C5/04}; obtaining metallic powder by crushing, grinding or milling B22F9/04; {recovery of plastics by disintegrating B29B17/00; crushing raw materials in starch making C08B30/02; beaters for papermaking D21D1/02; crushing devices specially for transport in mines E21F13/002; slag crushing devices F23J1/00; fuel milling devices in combustion apparatus F23K1/00; household devices for crushing coal F24B15/02; ice disintegrating devices F25C5/02})
- B03B: SEPARATING SOLID MATERIALS USING LIQUIDS OR USING PNEUMATIC TABLES OR JIGS
- B03C: MAGNETIC OR ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATION OF SOLID MATERIALS FROM SOLID MATERIALS OR FLUIDS; SEPARATION BY HIGH-VOLTAGE ELECTRIC FIELDS (separating isotopes B01D59/00; combinations of magnetic or electrostatic separation with separation of solids by other means B03B, B07B)
- C10L: FUELS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NATURAL GAS; SYNTHETIC NATURAL GAS OBTAINED BY PROCESSES NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C10G OR C10K; LIQUIFIED PETROLEUM GAS; USE OF ADDITIVES TO FUELS OR FIRES; FIRE-LIGHTERS
- F23G: CREMATION FURNACES; CONSUMING WASTE PRODUCTS BY COMBUSTION
- Y02E: REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
- Y02P: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS
- Y02W: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO WASTEWATER TREATMENT OR WASTE MANAGEMENT

## Abstract

In accordance with the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for fuelizing inflammable waste capable of efficiently fuelizing inflammable waste while reducing facility and operation costs of the overall system and maintaining stable operation, and so on. More particularly, the apparatus 1 for fuelizing inflammable waste comprises: a primary crusher 4 for crushing an inflammable waste W containing as principal component at least one selected from a group comprising plastics, sponges, fibers, rubbers and wood materials; a foreign matter removing device 7 for removing foreign matters F contained in the crushed objects W1; a secondary crusher 9 for secondarily crushing the crushed objects W3 from which foreign matters I, M are removed; and an injecting device 11 for injecting the secondarily crushed objects W4 generated by the secondary crusher 9 into a burner 10, and so on. The apparatus 1 may be provided with an intermediate tank 8 for storing the crushed objects W3 from which foreign matters I, M are removed, and from the intermediate tank 8 is supplied the crushed objects W3 to the secondary crusher 9.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An apparatus for fuelizing inflammable waste comprising:
a primary crusher for crushing an inflammable waste containing as principal component at least one selected from a group comprising plastics, sponges, fibers, rubbers and wood materials;
a foreign matter removing device for removing foreign matters contained in said crushed objects;
an intermediate tank in communication with the primary crusher for receiving crushed objects by the primary crusher, the intermediate tank being adapted to generate a tank load signal associated with a load of the intermediate tank;
a secondary crusher in communication with the intermediate tank to receive crushed objects from the intermediate tank for secondarily crushing said crushed objects from which foreign matters are removed, the secondary crusher being adapted to generate a secondary crusher load signal associated with a load of the secondary crusher;
a crushing controller in operative communication with the primary crusher, the intermediate tank, and the secondary crusher, wherein said crushing controller:
receives the tank load signal from the intermediate tank;
generates a primary, crusher signal based on the tank load signal, and transmit the primary crusher signal to the primary crusher to control operation of the primary crusher; and
generates a secondary crusher signal based on the tank load signal, and transmit the secondary crusher signal to the secondary, crusher to control operation of the secondary
a secondary supply controller in communication with the intermediate tank and the secondary crusher, the secondary supply controller receives the secondary crusher load signal from the secondary crusher, generates a tank control signal based on the secondary crusher load signal, and transmits the tank control signal to the intermediate tank to control amount of crushed objects discharged from the intermediate tank;
an injecting device for injecting said secondarily crushed objects into a burner;
wherein said primary crusher is provided with rotary blades mounted on a rotary shaft in a main body in multiple stages in an axial direction of the rotary shaft, fixed blades fixed in the main body and a screen disposed below the rotary blades, and said primary crusher crushes the inflammable waste with the rotary blades and the fixed blades, and downwardly discharging crushed objects through said screen, and at the crushing of the inflammable waste, said primary crusher is driven under following conditions:
a velocity of the rotary blade being not less than 20 rpm and not more than 60 rpm, said velocity of the rotary blade determining the velocity of the primary crusher;
a phase difference of the rotary blades in two adjacent stages being not more than 60°;
sieve openings of the screen being not less than 30 mm and not more than 200 mm; and
a distance between the screen and the rotary blades being not less than 20 mm and not more than 100 mm;
wherein objects reaching below sieve openings of said screen are discharged downward through the sieve openings, and crushed objects larger or equal to the sieve openings are lifted upwards by the rotary blades and repeatedly crushed.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The apparatus for fuelizing inflammable waste as claimed in claim 1 wherein the intermediate tank is configured for storing said crushed objects from which foreign matters are removed by the foreign matter removing device.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1, 2)

The apparatus for fuelizing inflammable waste as claimed in claim 1 or 2, wherein said secondary crusher is provided with rotary blades mounted on a rotary shaft in a main body, fixed blades fixed in the main body and a screen disposed below the rotary blades, and said secondary crusher secondarily crushes the crushed objects from which foreign matters are removed with the rotary blades and the fixed blades, and downwardly discharges the secondarily crushed objects thorough said screen, and at the secondary crushing of the crushed objects, said secondary crusher is driven under following conditions:
a velocity of the rotary blades being not less than 60 rpm and not more than 600 rpm;
sieve openings of the screen being not less than 5 mm and not more than 20 mm; and
a distance between the screen and the rotary blades being not less than 10 mm and not more than 50 mm.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The apparatus for fuelizing inflammable waste as claimed in claim 1, wherein said foreign matter removing device comprises a vibrating conveyor having a filtering function, on a conveying face, of filtering conveyed objects by allowing objects smaller than a predetermined size to drop, and a magnetic ore dressing machine, situated above said vibrating conveyor, for removing iron-based foreign matters with a magnet.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The apparatus for fuelizing inflammable waste as claimed in claim 4, wherein on said conveying face of the vibrating conveyor is arranged a screen, a porous plate or a plate-like member with plurality of slits.

### Claim 6 (depends on 4)

The apparatus for fuelizing inflammable waste as claimed in claim 4, wherein on said conveying face of the vibrating conveyor is arranged a screen, and sieve openings of said screen are not less than 1 mm and not more than 50 mm.

### Claim 7 (depends on 4)

The apparatus for fuelizing inflammable waste as claimed in claim 4, wherein on said conveying face of the vibrating conveyor is arranged a porous plate, and diameters of pores drilled in said porous plate are not less than 1 mm and not more than 50 mm.

### Claim 8 (depends on 4)

The apparatus for fuelizing inflammable waste as claimed in claim 4, wherein on said conveying face of the vibrating conveyor is arranged a plate-like member with plurality of slits, and a width of each slit is not less than 1 mm and not more than 50 mm.

### Claim 9 (depends on 1)

The apparatus for fuelizing inflammable waste as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a trommel upstream of the primary crusher for removing foreign matters from the inflammable waste before the inflammable waste is supplied to the primary crusher.

### Claim 10 (depends on 1)

The apparatus for fuelizing inflammable waste as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a primary crusher load controller in operative communication with the primary crusher and configured to control an amount of inflammable waste supplied to the primary crusher in accordance with a load of the primary crusher.

### Claim 11 (depends on 1)

The apparatus for fuelizing inflammable waste as claimed in claim 1, wherein the crushing controller ceases operation of the secondary crusher when the level of crushed object present in the intermediate tank passes a prescribed threshold.