Solid and black waste mitigation system and process
View Patent ↗A system for waste processing includes a feeder for receiving a waste stream of carbonaceous materials, multiple independently controllable augers, a reactor and an incinerator. The reactor receives a waste stream from the feeder and using a controllable heating element assembly converts the carbonaceous materials in the waste stream to syngas. The incinerator uses the syngas from the reactor to incinerate separately received black water waste from a storage tank.
1. A system for waste processing comprising:
a feeder for receiving a waste stream of carbonaceous materials, the feeder including a first controllable auger for directing the waste stream;
a reactor for receiving the directed waste stream from the feeder, the reactor including multiple reactor tubes connected in a stacked arrangement, wherein each of the multiple reactor tubes includes a second controllable auger, and a first heating element assembly for converting the carbonaceous materials to syngas and ash; and
an incinerator for receiving the syngas from the reactor and for receiving black water waste from a storage tank, wherein the incinerator includes at least one burner fueled by the syngas for incinerating the received black water waste.
2. The system of claim 1 wherein the first controllable auger is plug forming and condenses the carbonaceous materials as it directs them to the reactor.
3. The system of claim 1 wherein the incinerator is an incineration toilet.
4. The system of claim 1 wherein the incinerator includes multi-fuel burners.
5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the system further includes a diesel fuel source and the multi-fuel burners may be fueled by syngas and diesel.
6. The system of claim 1 wherein the syngas is directed to the incinerator via a gas blower.
7. The system of claim 1 , wherein a speed of the first controllable auger and each of the second controllable augers are independently controllable.
8. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a second heating element assembly, wherein the first and second heating element assemblies are separately controllable.
9. The system of claim 1 , wherein each of the first heating element assemblies creates multiple heating zones which are immediately adjacent to one another along a periphery of the reactor tube.
10. The system of claim 1 , wherein each of the first heating element assemblies creates multiple heating zones which are spaced a distance apart from one another along a periphery of the reactor tube.
11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the feeder includes at least one valve at an input thereto.
12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the at least one valve is a double rotary star lock valve.
13. The system of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first controllable auger and the second controllable augers is a dual auger.
14. The system of claim 1 , further comprising an ash collector bin for receiving the produced ash therein.
15. The system of claim 14 , wherein the ash collection bin is removable during continuous waste processing.