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Granted Patent B2
US 11,192,080 · App. 17/277,956 · Granted Dec 7, 2021

Pyrolysis plant

Inventor: Germano Araújo Carreira (Fátima, PT)
B01J6/008C09C1/482C10G1/10F23G5/027F23G5/08F23G7/066F23G7/12F23K1/04C10G2300/1003F23G2205/121F23G2205/14F23G2900/50213
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 11,192,080
App. No.
17/277,956
Granted
Dec 7, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A pyrolysis plant including: a) an exhaust heated feeder; b) a pyrolysis reactor; c) a rotary screen cleaning tower; d) an exhaust heat fuel cleaner; e) a carbon refiner; and f) a safety burner tower.

Claims (15)

1. A Pyrolysis plant comprising an exhaust heated feeder, a pyrolysis reactor, a rotary screen cleaning tower, an exhaust heat fuel cleaner, a carbon refiner, a safety burner, wherein:

a) the exhaust heated feeder at least comprises: a receiver hopper having a vertical ram screw with bridge breaker arms and a pneumatic or hydraulic drive; a photo eye sensor or paddle switch; a slide gate; a twin screw feeder, having a twin screw housing, two screws of which one screw with left-hand flights and the other screw with right-hand flights, a pneumatic or a hydraulic power system, having a gear speed reducer, and having a heated collar;

b) the pyrolysis reactor at least comprises: an upper reactor screw and lower reactor screw with double flight screws having a cut and fold slots; burner boxes having one dual gas burner per box, a sealed slip collar to support the burner box on the reactor tubes, roller support carts, a tube steel frame having flat bar landings for the roller support carts, the roller support carts have cam follower rollers; drives on the drive support roller carts;

c) the rotary screen cleaning tower at least comprises: a fan wheel; spinning paddles; screen plates having tapered slots which taper in the direction of the spinning paddles from smaller and larger in a teardrop shape; a cleaning tower housing; a main shaft; and an electric motor with a gear box;

d) the exhaust heat fuel cleaner at least comprises: a main housing; an inlet tube; a split insulated metal enclosure; exhaust outlet port and heat inlet port and; a discharge valve; a discharge holding tank; a pump; a diverter valve; a vent pipe; a condenser; a holding tank; a actuator valve; sensors; and a check valve;

e) the carbon refiner at least comprises: the lower reactor screw and a gated airlock arrangement; a upper gate; an ash discharge auger; a first hopper; a level indicator; a drive; a middle gate; a lower hopper; a lower gate; a metering screw rotating in a hollow drive shaft; matching air openings; a duct; a burner blower; a combustion chamber; a pilot flame; a discharge opening; a motor drive; an packing seal; a vent line; a water bubbler; a vacuum source; a separator tank; a level switch; a vertical lift auger; an opening; openings in the lift tube; a condenser inline; a horizontal screw auger; a first airlock; a cyclone; a second airlock; a blower; an exhaust into a bag filter; and a third airlock;

f) the safety burner tower at least comprises: an inlet valve; a pipe a safety burner housing base having a bubbler chamber; a modulating blower; a venturi nozzle; a pilot light; a bubbler chamber; having an insulated area; a computer; a stack; a battery backup; a level switch.

2. The Pyrolysis plant as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the exhaust heated feeder also comprises temperature probes; pressure sensors; a set of bushing bearings; a face plate; and bras washers.

3. The Pyrolysis plant as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the plant is protected with a nitrogen purge system.

4. The Pyrolysis plant as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the said twin screw feeder comprises: the two screws which first flights having constant diameters, those diameters increasing in second flights and then decreasing in third flights and having a reversed flight section in said third flights; a valve; a duct; an enlarged center section of the enlarged section.

5. The Pyrolysis plant as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the plant is protected with a nitrogen purge system.

6. The Pyrolysis plant as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the dual gas burner supplies hot air to heat said twin screw feeder.

7. The Pyrolysis plant as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the plant is protected with a nitrogen purge system.

8. The Pyrolysis plant as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the plant is protected with a nitrogen purge system.

9. The Pyrolysis plant as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the said twin screw feeder ( 102 ) comprises: the two screws which first flights having constant diameters, those diameters increasing in second flights and then decreasing in third flights and having a reversed flight section in said third flights; a valve; a duct; an enlarged center section of the enlarged section.

Priority Claims (1)
EP 18398009 · Sep 20, 2018 · regional
Continuity (1)
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