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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 25, 1997
G. Michael Pope, Danville, KY (US);
International Environmental Technologies, Inc., Danville, KY (US);
Abstract
A municipal waste gasification system comprises a plurality of primary gasification chambers for receiving municipal waste, a means for operating the municipal waste gasification system so that one or more of the primary gasification chambers may be idle while the other primary gasification chambers are operating to produce an effluent by an oxygen-starved process, a means for heating the municipal waste under oxygen-starved conditions in the primary gasification chambers in order to gasify the municipal waste and produce the effluent, and at least one mixing chamber positioned to receive the effluent produced by the primary gasification chambers with an effluent pathway extending through each mixing chamber. The invention also includes a means for supplying an oxygen-containing gas to the effluent in the mixing chamber in order to produce a mixed effluent, a secondary combustion chamber positioned to receive the mixed effluent produced by the mixing chamber, and a means for incinerating the mixed effluent in the secondary combustion chamber.