SMART WASTE CONTAINER

• US 20190054475A1
• Filed: 01/10/2018
• Published: 02/21/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/03/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Zohar Clean Tech. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Zohar Clean Tech. Ltd.
• Inventors: GABAY, Chanan, SEGAL, Uzi, SHOHAT, Tsachi
• Granted Patent: US 10,646,879 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 6/008 Pyrolysis reactions of hydrocarbons C10G9/00
• CPC Class Codes: B02C 18/0084 specially adapted for disintegrating garbage, waste or sewage
• CPC Class Codes: B02C 18/0092 for waste water or for garbage
• CPC Class Codes: B02C 18/22 Feed or discharge means
• CPC Class Codes: B09B 3/00 Destroying solid waste or transforming solid waste into something useful or harmless
• CPC Class Codes: B29B 17/00 Recovery of plastics or other constituents of waste material containing plastics; volume reduction of waste plastics, e.g. by mechanical compacting or melting disposal of solid waste B09B; chemical recovery C08J11/00
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/42 by ion-exchange ion-exchange in general B01J
• CPC Class Codes: C10J 2200/12 Electrodes present in the gasifier
• CPC Class Codes: C10J 2200/158 Screws
• CPC Class Codes: C10J 2300/0906 Physical processes, e.g. shredding, comminuting, chopping, sorting
• CPC Class Codes: C10J 2300/0946 Waste, e.g. MSW, tires, glass, tar sand, peat, paper, lignite, oil shale
• CPC Class Codes: C10J 2300/0976 as steam
• CPC Class Codes: C10J 2300/1238 by plasma
• CPC Class Codes: C10J 2300/165 integrated with a gas turbine or gas motor gas turbine plants provided with a gas producer F02C3/28; engines using solid fuels F02B43/08
• CPC Class Codes: C10J 3/00 Production of combustible gases containing carbon monoxide from solid carbonaceous fuels destructive distillation processes C10B
• CPC Class Codes: C10K 1/02 Dust removal
• CPC Class Codes: F23G 2201/20 Dewatering by mechanical means
• CPC Class Codes: F23G 2201/303 Burning pyrogases
• CPC Class Codes: F23G 2201/80 Shredding
• CPC Class Codes: F23G 2206/203 with a power/heat generating installation
• CPC Class Codes: F23G 5/027 : pyrolising or gasifying stage pyrolisation of sludge C02F11/00; destructive distillation of carbonaceous materials C10B53/00
• CPC Class Codes: F23G 5/085 : High-temperature heating means, e.g. plasma, for partly melting the waste
• CPC Class Codes: F23G 5/40 : Portable or mobile incinerators
• CPC Class Codes: F23J 1/02 : Apparatus for removing ash, clinker, or slag from ash-pits, e.g. by employing trucks or conveyors, by employing suction devices
• CPC Class Codes: F23J 1/06 : Mechanically-operated devices, e.g. clinker pushers forming part of the grate F23H
• CPC Class Codes: F23J 2219/80 : Quenching
• CPC Class Codes: F23K 1/02 : Mixing solid fuel with a liquid, e.g. preparing slurries
• CPC Class Codes: F23N 2241/04 : Heating water
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 20/12 : Heat utilisation in combustion or incineration of waste
• CPC Class Codes: Y02W 30/62 : Plastics recycling; Rubber recycling

Abstract

An apparatus for waste recycling that is suitable for residence building level in both volume and rate of supply of waste with a waste disposal and treatment container having the following parts: waste eliminator comprising a thermally and acoustically insulating casing with odour insulating raw waste receiving space; all-purpose shredder and crusher; crushed and/or shredded waste conveyor; liquid waste purifier; gasification plasma reactor; gas conveyor and purifier; slag collector; re-hydration means for re-hydrating solid waste in the gasification plasma reactor; and safety means. Each one of these parts is organized in fluid communication with its neighbor parts.

Claims

1. Waste disposal and treatment container comprising:

waste eliminator comprising a thermally and acoustically insulating casing, said casing comprising;

odour insulating raw waste receiving space;

all-purpose shredder and crusher;

crushed and/or shredded waste conveyor;

liquid waste purifier;

gasification plasma reactor;

gas conveyor and purifier;

slag collector;

re-hydration means for re-hydrating solid waste in said gasification plasma reactor; and

safety means,

wherein said all-purpose shredder and crusher is in fluid and continuous communication with said crushed and/or shredded waste conveyor and said liquid waste purifier, said crushed and/or shredded waste conveyor and liquid waste purifier are in fluid and continuous communication with said gasification plasma reactor, said gasification plasma reactor is in fluid and continuous communication with said gas conveyor and purifier, said slag collector and re-hydration means.

2. The container according to claim 1, wherein said re-hydration means comprises:

generation mechanism for generating steam gas and/or water vapor; and

means for transporting said steam gas and/or water vapour into said gasification plasma reactor;

plasma torch electrode cooling system,

wherein said generation mechanism comprises;

a steam gas and/or water vapor source; and

a module for generating said steam gas and/or water vapour,

wherein said re-hydration means comprises steam gas and/or water vapor generator, said steam gas and/or water vapor generator is said slag collector, said slag collector comprising a container for receiving and cooling hot vitreous or molten slag produced in said gasification plasma reactor, said container containing water for said cooling, wherein steam gas and/or water vapor by-products of said cooling are generated by thermal reaction of said hot molten or vitreous slag in said water in said slag collector.

6. The container according to claim 2, wherein said means for transporting said steam gas and/or water vapor comprising a single or plurality of steam gas pipes and/or said plasma torch for steam conveying, said pipes connecting between said steam gas and/or water vapor source and said gasification plasma reactor, wherein said single or plurality of pipes are connected to corresponding single or plurality of filtering breathing membranes at interface of said pipes with said gasification plasma reactor.

11. The according to claim 1, further comprising a piston at top side of said gasification plasma reactor, said piston is configured for first operational state of fully retracted up position relative to said gasification plasma reactor and second operational state in fully inserted position inside said plasma gasification reactor, wherein in said first operational state, said piston separates outlet of syngas produced in said gasification plasma reactor and upper inlet of said solid waste, wherein said piston is configured to mechanically clean solidified elements in the path of the mass stream and soot residues from walls of said gasification plasma reactor side walls during transition from said first to said second operational states, and wherein when in said second operational state said piston is configured to reach bottom of said gasification plasma reactor and remove slag by pushing said slag out through bottom outlet of said gasification plasma reactor into said slag collector.

13. The container according to claim 1, further comprising humidity, temperature, pressure, visual and optical sensors within said gasification plasma reactor, said sensors are configured to monitor environmental conditions within said reactor, said environmental conditions comprising levels of humidity of incoming solid waste into said reactor.

14. The container according to claim 6, further comprising a central control and data processing unit, said central control and data processing unit is configured to supervise and control operation of said container, said sensors are configured to transmit data to said central control and data processing unit, wherein said central control and data processing unit is configured to calculate amounts of steam gas and water vapor to be supplied by said steam gas and/or water vapor generator to said reactor.

17. The container according to claim 1, further comprising an energy generator, wherein said energy generator is in fluid and continuous communication with said gasification plasma reactor, said gasification reactor comprising a gas outlet for releasing crude gas to said energy generator.

22. The container according to claim 1, wherein said odour insulating raw waste receiving space comprises active odour neutralizer and safety sealed door, wherein said active odour neutralizer is selected from ozone generator, active carbon filter, chemical reaction filter and combinations thereof.

24. The container according to claim 1, wherein said all-purpose shredder and crusher comprises a shredder, crushing hammers and liquid filtering and drainage outlet and collector, wherein said all-purpose shredder is a single, two, three or four stages shredder, and wherein said liquid filtering and drainage is done by grid sweeping.

29. The container according to claim 1, wherein said liquid waste purifier comprises reactor feeding mouthpiece, filters, liquid purifiers and lipid and concentrated contaminants reclaiming means, wherein said filters are selected from micron filters, active carbon filters, lipid separator, reverse osmosis membranes and any combination thereof.

32. The container according to claim 1, wherein said gasification plasma reactor comprises internal heating means, thermal insulation means and temperature and pressure control means, wherein said internal heating means is based on electrical or chemical energy, plasma electrodes or microwave generating source.

41. The container according to claim 1, wherein said gas conveyor and purifier comprises integrated gas conveyor, gas purifier, gas accumulator and means for clearing and reclaiming excess material, toxic gas products and contaminated carbon dust, wherein said gas purifier is selected from catalytic converter, plasma flame generator configured for toxin decomposition, quenching heat exchanger, micron filter, active carbon filter.

46. The container according to claim 1, further comprising energy generator in communication with said gas conveyor purifier, said energy generator comprising power producing means, current stabilizer/rectifier, control system, connection means for connecting to domestic/local power supply or mains and IoT for data transmission.

50. The container according to claim 1, wherein said safety means comprises means for online monitoring, real-time system safety evaluation, periodic safety check (BIT), system check on starting (PBIT), system software test, system control test and smart user interface.

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36. The container according to claim 12, wherein said reactor is insulated for oxygen diffusion control.

37. The container according to claim 12, wherein said reactor further comprises slag outlet located at floor of said reactor in vicinity of energy source, said slag outlet is in fluid and continuous communication with said slag collector.

39. The container according to claim 12, wherein said reactor further comprises gas release outlet.

40. The container according to claim 12, wherein said reactor comprises energy source of plasma arc generator.

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