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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2022
Thermochem Recovery International, Inc., Baltimore, MD (US);
Ravi Chandran, Ellicott City, MD (US);
Daniel A. Burciaga, Manchester, MD (US);
Daniel Michael Leo, Baltimore, MD (US);
Shawn Robert Freitas, Corvallis, OR (US);
Dave G. Newport, Cumberland, ME (US);
Justin Kevin Miller, Durham, NC (US);
Kaitlin Emily Harrington, Hillsborough, NC (US);
Brian Christopher Attwood, Cary, NC (US);
ThermoChem Recovery International, Inc., Baltimore, MD (US);
Abstract
A feedstock delivery system transfers a carbonaceous material, such as municipal solid waste, into a product gas generation system. The feedstock delivery system includes a splitter for splitting bulk carbonaceous material into a plurality of carbonaceous material streams. Each stream is processed using a weighing system for gauging the quantity of carbonaceous material, a densification system for forming plugs of carbonaceous material, a de-densification system for breaking up the plugs of carbonaceous material, and a gas and carbonaceous material mixing system for forming a carbonaceous material and gas mixture. A pressure of the mixing gas is reduced prior to mixing with the carbonaceous material, and the carbonaceous material to gas weight ratio is monitored. A transport assembly conveys the carbonaceous material and gas mixture to a first reactor where at least the carbonaceous material within the mixture is subject to thermochemical reactions to form the product gas.