231results about "Rotary retorts" patented technology

Methods and apparatus may permit the generation of consistent output synthesis gas from highly variable input feedstock solids carbonaceous materials. A stoichiometric objectivistic chemic environment may be established to stoichiometrically control carbon content in a solid carbonaceous materials gasifier system. Processing of carbonaceous materials may include dominative pyrolytic decomposition and multiple coil carbonaceous reformation. Dynamically adjustable process determinative parameters may be utilized to refine processing, including process utilization of negatively electrostatically enhanced water species, process utilization of flue gas (9), and adjustment of process flow rate characteristics. Recycling may be employed for internal reuse of process materials, including recycled negatively electrostatically enhanced water species, recycled flue gas (9), and recycled contaminants. Synthesis gas generation may involve predetermining a desired synthesis gas for output and creating high yields of such a predetermined desired synthesis gas.

The present invention provides a processing method which can process biomass resources to a carbide having a uniformity and including a large amount of high-carbon charcoal, can hold down an initial cost while capable of executing a large amount of process (for example, 100 ton per day), has a low running cost while can suppress a fuel consumption to a significantly low level, and can continuously carbonize a object having a high water content, having an unstable shape and having a high viscosity such as a sewage sludge even being a simple structure. The carbonization processing method has the steps of (i) continuously supplying a processing object M which is not preliminarily treated, or a processing object M which is formed at a predetermined magnitude by a preliminary treatment such as a fragmentation, a water content reduction or the like, from an upstream side of a cylindrical rotary kiln in which a spiral carrier wall is provided in an inner peripheral surface in an entire length and an agitating wall cutting across the carrier wall is formed in the carrier wall in a middle portion from the upstream side at a predetermined unit amount while rotating the rotary kiln, (ii) blowing a flame in an inner portion of the rotary kiln from a downstream side in a carrying direction of the rotary kiln in the state (i), and stopping the blowing of the flame if the processing object M is ignited within the rotary kiln, (iii) supplying an air necessary for burning a combustible gas generated from the processing object M to an inner portion of the rotary kiln from a downstream side, and self burning the combustible gas without supplying any fuel, (iv) sucking a gas generated in the inner portion of the rotary kiln from the upstream side of the rotary kiln so as to detoxify and discharge, and (v) discharging the carbide of the processing object M from an outlet in the downstream side of the rotary kiln so as to cool by executing the operations in the (i) to (iv).

A method and apparatus for processing a waste product and producing a synthesis gas is provided. The system includes a sealed, heated rotatable drum for preheating and preparing the waste material suitable for a plasma reactor, and processing the material in the reactor. The synthesis gas created by the reactor is used to preheat the waste material by circulating the hot synthesis gas around the drum. In an alternative embodiment, the hot synthesis gas flows through the drum to preheat the waste material and to clean the synthesis gas. Different methods of cooling and cleaning the synthesis gas are used. The system may comprise two plasma reactors in combination with a rotating desorber drum.

A process for the controlled gasification of a carbonaceous feedstock includes pyrolizing the feedstock by conveying the feedstock through a retort surrounded by a plurality of successive heating chambers each comprising an axially adjustable chamber separation wall and each operated at a predetermined temperature, wherein a predetermined dwell time of the feedstock in each of the plurality of successive heating chambers is controlled by a conveyance rate of the feedstock through the retort and a position of each of the axially adjustable chamber separation walls to produce a gas product and a solid product. The gas product includes methane and noxious chemicals and the solid product includes carbon, and the pyrolizing step is controlled using feedback related to constituents of the gas product.