WO1995005431A1 - Method and apparatus for recycling waste containing plastic and/or organic material - Google Patents
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C10—PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE; FUELS; LUBRICANTS; PEAT
- C10B—DESTRUCTIVE DISTILLATION OF CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS FOR PRODUCTION OF GAS, COKE, TAR, OR SIMILAR MATERIALS
- C10B55/00—Coking mineral oils, bitumen, tar, and the like or mixtures thereof with solid carbonaceous material
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- This invention refers to a method and an apparatus of the type given in the preamble of claims 1 and 6, respectively.
- a method and an apparatus for refrigerator disposal is described, for example, in the leaflet "K ⁇ hlbach-Entsorgung, Modell Schleswig-Holstein, System Bresch” (refrigerator disposal, Schleswig-Holstein model, Bresch system) , issued by the na ⁇ tional guild association of the German refrigerating plant makers* trade in D ⁇ sseldorf.
- the blowing agent is removed from the PUR insulating foam in refrigerator disposal; however it is known to the applicant that the PUR insulating foam is pressed to expel the blowing agent from it.
- This method is not sufficiently effective. In particular, it is un ⁇ suitable for breaking down waste containing plastic and/or organic material into its basic components.
- the object of the invention is to design a more effective method and apparatus of the type given in the preamble of claims 1 and 6, respectively, in particular such that plas- tic waste of any composition can be broken down into its basic components and these components can be recovered.
- the waste recycled by means of the method and the apparatus according to the invention does not need to be sorted into its various constituents prior to the recycling, for ac- cording to the invention, solid and gaseous components are recovered separately in the recycling.
- the recovery of the gaseous basic components in this is virtually total, for which reason the method working with ionized gas and plasma according to the invention is superior to the mechanical method mentioned above.
- FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of an apparatus for recycling waste containing plastic and/or organic material, having a vacuum tank with a rectangular cross sec ⁇ tion, and
- Fig. 2 shows a second embodiment of the apparatus accord ⁇ ing to the invention with a spherical vacuum tank.
- the vacuum chamber 16 has a feed line 20 for easily ionizable gas such as argon or another noble gas or an inert gas, and a feed line 22 for hydrogen.
- the vacuum chamber 16 has two discharge lines 24 and 26 in its upper and lower parts, respectively, for gaseous components arising in the vacuum chamber 16.
- the discharge line 24 is located in the upper part of the vacuum chamber 16 and is provided for components having a low unit weight
- the discharge line 26 is located in the lower part of the vacuum chamber 16 and is provided for components ha ⁇ ving a high unit weight.
- the microwave generator 18 is a magnetron 28 disposed out ⁇ side the vacuum chamber 16 and radiating into the vacuum chamber 16 through a radiation tube 30 of a microwave-per ⁇ meable material that leads into the vacuum chamber 16, where its end is closed.
- the radiation tube 30 is provided with a microwave-reflecting coating 34 on its side 32 fa ⁇ cing away from the waste 12.
- the radiation tube 30 has an open end opposite the closed end, with the magnetron 28 sealed onto the open end.
- the radiation tube 30 is filled with an electrically insulating gas such as SF6-
- the microwave generators 18 are distributed over the walls of the vacuum tank 14 as shown in. Fig. 1. Because of the coa ⁇ ting 34 the radiation is directed toward the waste 12. In the microwave generator 18 shown at the lower left in Fig. l, the coating 34 is accordingly likewise on the lower side.
- Fig. 2 shows a variant of the invention, with the vacuum tank 14' shown in cross section being spherically designed, but otherwise like the vacuum tank 14.
- the two discharge lines 24, 26 are each connected via a condenser 36 or 38, respectively, to a collection vessel 40 and 42, respectively.
- a high-pressure plasma generator 44 is connected outside the vacuum chamber 16 between the two discharge lines 24, 26. This generator 44, as shown, is connected at its input end to the discharge lines 24 and 26 via a bypass 46 and 48, respectively. Its output end 50 serves to divert halogen-free gas that can be torched off or collected.
- the high-pressure plasma generator 44 is a microwave generator similar to the microwave generators 18 and has a smaller volume in the present embodiment than the microwave generators 18 and therefore produces higher spe ⁇ cific energy densities.
- a source 52 for a reaction partner for halogen radicals is connected to the high-pressure plasma generator 44.
- the reaction partner can be silicon, sodium or the like, as is explained in further detail be ⁇ low.
- the apparatus contains various check valves R and solenoid valves M, the functions of which need not be further described.
- the radiation tubes 30 are designed and adjusted in such a way that the microwave energy radiating through them is directed toward a common focal point in which the waste 12 is to be placed.
- Waste 12 to be recycled, containing plastic and/or organic material is loaded into the vacuum chamber 16 and a vacuum is built up in the vacuum chamber. Subsequently, the va ⁇ cuum is partially broken in that easily ionizable gas, ar ⁇ gon in the present example, is fed into the vacuum chamber 16. Any other suitable noble or inert gas can be used in- stead of argon.
- the gas is ionized in the vacuum chamber 16 up to a predetermined energy density with the aid of the magnetrons 28 by admission of microwave energy.
- the pre ⁇ determined energy density should preferably lie between three and thirty watts/cm3.
- halogen radi ⁇ cals arising here are combined with another reaction part ⁇ ner.
- This reaction partner is made available by the source 52. Silicon is used as the other reaction partner if the gaseous components consist primarily of fluorine, whereas sodium is used if the gaseous components consist primarily of chlorine.
- the particular advantage of the method and the apparatus described above consists in that plastic of highly differ ⁇ ing quality and randomly mixed can be loaded as waste 12 into the vacuum chamber 16 and recycled, and hence must not be sorted beforehand.
- the method and the apparatus are namely intended particu ⁇ larly for breaking down plastic waste of all types, truly sorted or randomly mixed, such as plastic waste from re ⁇ frigerators to be disposed of, into their basic components, which can then be reused.
- microwave en ⁇ ergy with high energy density is admitted to the waste, wherein a gas is ionized, with the effect that the gaseous components leave the waste and to build up a plasma under the action of the microwave energy, by which plasma the plastic is ultimately fully broken down into gaseous compo ⁇ nents that are diverted at 24 and 26 and into a liquid or powdery residue that remains in a waste receptacle 13 and can be removed with the same from the vacuum tank 14.
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