Abstract:
The present invention provides a system and method for utilizing DDGS by-products from an ethanol plant. In one embodiment, the DDGS is burned to release thermal energy, which is used to produce steam needed for the operation of the ethanol plant. This method can realize approximate 67% savings in the fuel cost over the conventional propane-fueled ethanol plant.
Abstract:
An incinerator device includes an incinerator for burning the garbage to generate a smoke, the smoke has a portion sent back to and retreated by the incinerator, and the other portion sent to and retreated by a furnace. The furnace may energize a steam boiler to actuate an electric generator and to generate electricity. A filtering device includes a serpentine conduit for receiving the smoke from the furnace, and disposed in a casing for heating the water in the casing and for supplying the heated water for family use or for use in swimming pool or the like.
Abstract:
In a method of incinerating waste material in a parallel flow process wherein hot exhaust gases are conducted above a combustion chamber grate in the same direction as the material is moved on the grate, different temperatures zones are maintained to which air is admitted from the bottom through the grate such that a temperature of less than 900.degree. C. is maintained in a first zone which is a drying zone, a temperature of about 1000.degree. C. is maintained in a second zone which is an evaporization and vaporizing zone, a temperature of about 900.degree. C. is maintained to in a third zone, which is the final combustion zone and a temperature less than 900.degree. C. is maintained in a fourth zone which is a sintering zone. Additional air is supplied to the combustion zones 1 through the side walls of the combustion chamber. A dividing wall is disposed above the grate over which the hot combustion gases are conducted to a discharge opening so that heat is transferred to the dividing wall for radiation back onto the waste material on the grate.
Abstract:
A preheater in an incineration system consists of: a first opening through which refuse is input; a second opening which is formed under the first opening and communicates with an incinerator; a heat flow passageway which is formed between the first and second openings, and passes the heat generated by the incinerator; and a receiving unit between the two openings which rotates the refuse in the heat flow passageway.
Abstract:
A method for processing an air stream using a thermal oxidizer, by pre-heating the air stream, without the use of auxiliar heat, and substantially eliminating the condensation of organic or inorganic compounds within the air stream to be treated.
Abstract:
Waste treatment. The installation for implementing the method comprises: a furnace (1) defining a confinement enclosure (2) for a fluidized bed (3) of particulate matter; means for recirculating the particles of the bed; means (28) for mixing, coating, and drying the recycled particles and the waste; and means for feeding the furnace from the means (28). The invention is applicable to treating moist waste.
Abstract:
A system for waste-to-energy conversion of municipal solid waste and urban forest residue includes as a central element a vortex-cyclone suspended combustion zone furnace, supplied via a shredder and a rotary preheat kiln, and followed by a waste heat boiler. The combustion furnace takes the form of a horizontal tunnel-like structure into which solid waste material from the preheat kiln is introduced near an entry end, with separate exit ports for hot gas and ash at an exit end. The furnace has spaced horizontal waterwall tubes, between which forced draft air is injected in a circular pattern aided by vanes, producing a swirling overfire air curtain surrounding the vortex-cyclone suspended combustion zone along the length of the furnace. In the manner of a cyclone separator, a cylindrical structure surrounds the central exhaust gas opening, and extends from the exit end wall into the combustion chamber to a circular leading edge. This cylindrical structure minimizes non-combustible particulate content in the gas flow directed out through the central exhaust gas opening.
Abstract:
A method and plant for burning sludge or filter cakes during the cement clinker manufacture where the cement is manufactured in known manner by the cement raw meal being preheated, calcined and burned into clinker with subsequent cooling of the clinker and where the sludge is dried and finely divided prior to burning. The drying heat is provided by feeding hot raw meal from either the preheater or a separating cyclone installed in connection with the calciner to the drier unit, which may be a drier crusher. Applicable types of sludge include sewage sludge, beaching earth, paper sludge, fibre rejects, combustible chemical residues, e.g. waste derived from the manufacture of nylons and pesticides, and drill sludge resulting from oil exploration.
Abstract:
High temperature combustion apparatus incorporating a pneumatically suspended combustion zone and capable of supporting relatively high combustion temperatures, in excess of 2400.degree. C. (4352.degree. F.) for essentially total combustion with minimal pollutant production. The combustion apparatus may be employed for waste material incineration in general, toxic waste incineration, and for smokeless burning of wood and vegetation. The combustion apparatus may be employed in an efficient steam electric power generating plant which employs municipal solid waste as fuel, and/or in combination with a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) electric generator. The pneumatically suspended combustion zone is created by having streams of combustion air directed upwardly from a floor grate and from the sides of a combustion chamber such that combustion occurs in a swirling turbulent mass which does not directly contact either the walls or the floor of the combustion chamber. The relatively high combustion temperatures are sustained by providing a high volume of excess combustion air, the same combustion air which maintains the pneumatically suspended combustion zone. High combustion temperatures are contained with little use of refractory materials, and without melting the combustion chamber sidewalls.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an incinerator devised to incinerate various kinds of wastes including medical and food wastes. Up to this time, the waste containing an explosive chemical substance like alcohol or the waste containing water in large quantities has been disposed of unsanitarily, requiring a great deal of labor and cost. The present invention is equipped with a primary combustion chamber, a secondary combustion chamber, a communicating means which introudces gases to the secondary combustion chamber from the primary combustion chamber, an exhaust means which discharges waste gas from the secondary combustion chamber and a microwave generation means. It is an incinerator aimed to solve the above problem by a method wherein waste is incinerated after it is desiccated and pyrolyzed by applying microwaves thereto and explosive gas is disposed of. It is an sanitary incinerator which contains no bad smell, no harmful substance and no smoke in the exhaust gas discharged after incineration.