Hazardous waste incinerator

Patent · Tue Dec 02 04:00:00 EST 1986

OSTI ID:7027408

Melchoir, A S

A portable incinerator is described for the disposal of small amounts of hazardous waste material with a minimum of exhaust combustion gases and comprising the combination of a boiling chamber for receiving the hazardous waste material therein, heating means cooperating with the boiling chamber for vaporizing the hazardous waste material therein to form waste gas thereof, a combustion chamber spaced from the boiling chamber, means for conducting the vaporized waste gas from the boiling chamber and into the entrance end of the combustion chamber, oxygen supply means for injecting oxygen into the combustion chamber, ignition means positioned in the combustion chamber for igniting the mixture of waste gas and oxygen, a catalytic converter positioned at the exit and of the combustion chamber and through which the oxidized waste gas passes for obtaining total oxidation of the combustion gas, and a wet scrubber chamber comunicatively connected to the exit end of the combustion chamber and into which the combustion gases are directed to pass therethrough and to be exhausted at the opposite end thereof. The wet scrubber chamber prevents harmful combustion gases from escaping through the exhaust.

• Assignee: Melchior-Moore Associates, Inc., Wilson, NC
• Patent Number(s): US 4625661
• OSTI ID: 7027408
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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42 ENGINEERING
421000* -- Engineering-- Combustion Systems
AIR FLOW
BOILERS
CATALYTIC CONVERTERS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
COMBUSTION
COMBUSTION CHAMBERS
DESIGN
ELEMENTS
EQUIPMENT
EVAPORATION
FLUE GAS
FLUID FLOW
GAS FLOW
GASEOUS WASTES
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
HEATERS
IGNITION SYSTEMS
INCINERATORS
MATERIALS
NONMETALS
OXIDATION
OXYGEN
PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS
POLLUTION CONTROL EQUIPMENT
PORTABLE EQUIPMENT
POSITIONING
SCRUBBERS
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
WASTES