Thermal processing reactor for mixtures, fabrication of the reactor, processes using the reactors and uses of the products obtained

摘要

A reactor and its internals used for the thermal processing of a mixture. The reactor comprises plates and at least part of the surface of said plates is used to perform said thermal processing. The reactor and its internals are used for the thermal processing of mixtures containing organic compounds. The processes, for thermal processing a mixture comprising organic compounds, comprising the steps of feeding the reactor and its internals and being useful for treating wastes oils and/or for destroying hazardous and/or toxic products; and/or for reusing waste products in an environmentally acceptable form and/or way, and/or for cleaning contaminated soils or beaches, and/or cleaning tar pits, and/or use in coal-oil co-processing, and/or recovering oil from oil spills, and/or PCB free transformed oils. A process for fabricating the reactor and its internals is also proposed.

主权项

1. A reactor and internals of said reactor for thermal processing of a mixture, said reactor comprising:
a. a rotating kiln; b. a heating system; c. at least one shelf on a wall of the rotating kiln, the at least one shelf being either parallel to a center axis of the rotating kiln, when the rotating kiln is horizontal, or slanted with respect to the center axis when the rotating kiln is slanted or not slanted; d. a charge of plates of consistent shapes, at least a portion of said plates being held by said at least one shelf against said reactor wall so as to heat a surface of said plates for a time until rotation of said kiln causes said plates to flip and fall so as to present said heated surface of said plates to said mixture to be thermally processed; e. means for bringing the mixture to be thermally processed on the surface of at least part of the plates; f. means for removing the solids, produced in the reactor during the thermal processing, from the rotating kiln; g. means for recovering reaction and straight run products produced in the reactor during the thermal processing; and h. means for venting gas, obtained by the thermal processing, outside the zone defined by the rotating kiln, wherein the height of the shelves is about twice the thickness of the plates.