Electric controlled air incinerator for radioactive wastes
- Aiken, SC
A two-stage incinerator is provided which includes a primary combustion chamber and an afterburner chamber for off-gases. The latter is formed by a plurality of vertical tubes in combination with associated manifolds which connect the tubes together to form a continuous tortuous path. Electrically-controlled heaters surround the tubes while electrically-controlled plate heaters heat the manifolds. A gravity-type ash removal system is located at the bottom of the first afterburner tube while an air mixer is disposed in that same tube just above the outlet from the primary chamber. A ram injector in combination with rotary magazine feeds waste to a horizontal tube forming the primary combustion chamber.
- Assignee:
- United States of America as represented by United States (Washington, DC)
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4259910
- OSTI ID:
- 863849
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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