WO2023187794A1 - A system for solid municipal waste disposal - Google Patents

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WO2023187794A1
WO2023187794A1 PCT/IN2022/050466 IN2022050466W WO2023187794A1 WO 2023187794 A1 WO2023187794 A1 WO 2023187794A1 IN 2022050466 W IN2022050466 W IN 2022050466W WO 2023187794 A1 WO2023187794 A1 WO 2023187794A1
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Manickam ATHAPPA GOUNDER
Raman Sivakumar
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B09DISPOSAL OF SOLID WASTE; RECLAMATION OF CONTAMINATED SOIL
    • B09BDISPOSAL OF SOLID WASTE
    • B09B3/00Destroying solid waste or transforming solid waste into something useful or harmless
    • B09B3/40Destroying solid waste or transforming solid waste into something useful or harmless involving thermal treatment, e.g. evaporation
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23BMETHODS OR APPARATUS FOR COMBUSTION USING ONLY SOLID FUEL
    • F23B1/00Combustion apparatus using only lump fuel
    • F23B1/02Combustion apparatus using only lump fuel for indirect heating of a medium in a vessel, e.g. for boiling water
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23BMETHODS OR APPARATUS FOR COMBUSTION USING ONLY SOLID FUEL
    • F23B90/00Combustion methods not related to a particular type of apparatus
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23GCREMATION FURNACES; CONSUMING WASTE PRODUCTS BY COMBUSTION
    • F23G5/00Incineration of waste; Incinerator constructions; Details, accessories or control therefor
    • F23G5/02Incineration of waste; Incinerator constructions; Details, accessories or control therefor with pretreatment
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23GCREMATION FURNACES; CONSUMING WASTE PRODUCTS BY COMBUSTION
    • F23G5/00Incineration of waste; Incinerator constructions; Details, accessories or control therefor
    • F23G5/02Incineration of waste; Incinerator constructions; Details, accessories or control therefor with pretreatment
    • F23G5/033Incineration of waste; Incinerator constructions; Details, accessories or control therefor with pretreatment comminuting or crushing
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23GCREMATION FURNACES; CONSUMING WASTE PRODUCTS BY COMBUSTION
    • F23G5/00Incineration of waste; Incinerator constructions; Details, accessories or control therefor
    • F23G5/44Details; Accessories
    • F23G5/442Waste feed arrangements
    • F23G5/444Waste feed arrangements for solid waste
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23JREMOVAL OR TREATMENT OF COMBUSTION PRODUCTS OR COMBUSTION RESIDUES; FLUES 
    • F23J1/00Removing ash, clinker, or slag from combustion chambers
    • F23J1/06Mechanically-operated devices, e.g. clinker pushers
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B09DISPOSAL OF SOLID WASTE; RECLAMATION OF CONTAMINATED SOIL
    • B09BDISPOSAL OF SOLID WASTE
    • B09B2101/00Type of solid waste
    • B09B2101/25Non-industrial waste, e.g. household waste
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23GCREMATION FURNACES; CONSUMING WASTE PRODUCTS BY COMBUSTION
    • F23G2205/00Waste feed arrangements
    • F23G2205/18Waste feed arrangements using airlock systems
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23JREMOVAL OR TREATMENT OF COMBUSTION PRODUCTS OR COMBUSTION RESIDUES; FLUES 
    • F23J2700/00Ash removal, handling and treatment means; Ash and slag handling in pulverulent fuel furnaces; Ash removal means for incinerators
    • F23J2700/003Ash removal means for incinerators

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  • the invention relates to a system for solid waste disposal and method thereof.
  • the invention more particularly relates to disposal of solid municipal waste by incinerating said solid waste using the system and method into ash and flue gas where the pollutants in the generated gas was removed before leaving into environment.
  • the background of the present invention relates to incinerator for disposing off solid waste.
  • the present invention also relates to a system which incorporates the incinerator for solid waste disposal.
  • Prior art W02010102539A1 relates to a processing method for converting household garbage into energy source is disclosed, wherein the process flow comprises the following procedures: transporting garbage into factories, breaking, sorting, grinding, pressing, thinning, stirring, extrusion forming, packaging and binning.
  • the invention is simple in technique, easy to implement, strong in operability, and convenient to promote its use, without adding any fuel, thus the household garbage can be converted into energy source and the sticky problem that the household garbage is difficult to be treated can be solved completely.
  • Prior art EP0194290B1 relates to a method and device for separating most of the waste material from sewage effluent, which incinerates a large portion of the waste to dispose of the waste in an environmentally safe manner. After separation, the aqueous byproduct from the sewage effluent is substantially waste free, allowing easy disposition or further treatment.
  • the apparatus includes a housing and a filter in the housing to which the sewage effluent is introduced. The solid waste materials are trapped in the filter with a substantially aqueous by-product discharged from the device.
  • a switch senses entry of the sewage effluent, starting operation of a heating element and a microwave generator which operate to substantially incinerate the waste material into an ash particulate. The gaseous by-products of the incineration are vented to the atmosphere and the ash particulate is vacuumed into a temporary storage container.
  • Prior art JP2020073278A relates to a processing system of combustible refuse which provide a processing system of a combustible refuse for processing of a raw refuse containing water without needing an incinerator and capable of reusing, not incinerating and disposing, of raw refuse.
  • the processing system of a combustible refuse for processing of a raw refuse containing water includes: a separate collection of separately collecting a raw refuse being stored in a bag; bag rupturing and crushing step of taking out the raw refuse from the bag where the raw refuse is separately collected and stored; disinfecting the separately collected raw refuse by using a treating liquid containing regenerated water treated in a sewage treatment facility; a drying step of dewatering and drying the raw refuse 9 disinfected in the disinfection step; and a reuse step of reusing materials constituting the raw refuse dewatered and dried in the drying step.
  • MSW organic and municipal solid waste
  • the accumulation of a large amount of organic and municipal solid waste (MSW) is one of the most pressing ecological and economic problems of the modern world. Disposal of MSW in landfills results not only in removing valuable land from use but exposes surrounding areas to environmental hazards.
  • the average caloric value of the sorted waste is 2200-2900 kcal/kg which is comparable with the calorific value of peat.
  • the wastes are converted into ash and carbon. Further using few additives the ash is being converted into solid bricks, using special formulation. Hence bricks can be used for any construction purpose and activated carbon, extracted from smoke is used for various purpose including agriculture.
  • Incinerators reduce the solid mass of the original waste by 80-85% and the volume (already compressed somewhat in garbage trucks) by 95-96%, depending on composition and degree of recovery of materials such as metals from the ash for recycling. This means that while incineration does not completely replace land-filling, it significantly reduces the necessary volume for disposal. Garbage trucks often reduce the volume of waste in a built-in compressor before delivery to the incinerator. Alternatively, at landfills, the volume of the uncompressed garbage can be reduced by approximately 70% by using a stationary steel compressor, albeit with a significant energy cost.
  • Incineration is a waste treatment process that involves the combustion of organic substances contained in waste materials. Incineration and other high-temperature waste treatment systems are described as "thermal treatment”. Incineration of waste materials converts the waste into ash, flue gas and heat. The ash is mostly formed by the inorganic constituents of the waste, and may take the form of solid lumps or particulates carried by the flue gas. The flue gases must be cleaned of gaseous and particulate pollutants before they are dispersed into the atmosphere.
  • the invention provides a method for solid waste disposal with pollution control systems resulting zero waste discharge.
  • the entire assembly consisting of a shredding/ segregation unit, incineration block, filtration and pollution control block, Brick molding block as a whole in one unit is a totally novel system as the very purpose of waste to wealth is achieved in one go, with very little resources and with very high efficiency.
  • the secondary object of the invention is to dispose the solid municipal waste without any additional fuel or external energy.
  • the third objective of the invention is to turn the burnt down ash to a reusable product.
  • the fourth objective of the invention is to adopt same method to dispose various kinds of waste with different biodegradable factors.
  • the present invention provides a system for disposing municipal solid waste comprising; first feeding means configured to feed the solid waste; a comber device adapted to tear open the garbage bags; a vibrator configured to separate small pieces of biodegradable from non-biodegradables and non-recyclables materials; a shredder adapted to cut large waste materials into smaller pieces; second feeding means configured to feed the shredded waste material into the incinerator furnace through positive air lock valves positioned above the mid position of said furnace; the solid waste configured to be burned in the furnace in vacuum into ash and gas; ash collecting plate is provided at the bottom of the furnace to collect the ash and drop into chute fitted beneath to remove the collected ash; air inlet provided to feed air into the furnace to facilitate complete combustion and temperature monitoring means adapted to monitor the temperature inside the furnace; gaseous and particulate matters discharged from the furnace treated in the pollution control unit ; induced draught (ID) blower configured to draw the gas from pollution control unit and release the said gas through an exhaust chimney with very low level
  • Another embodiment of the invention to provide a pollution control unit comprising of hot air harvester, venturi scrubber , horizontal scrubber , wet scrubber , filtration unit , induced draught (ID) blower and chimney to treat the incombustible material in the form of smoke and the pollutants before releasing into the environment.
  • a pollution control unit comprising of hot air harvester, venturi scrubber , horizontal scrubber , wet scrubber , filtration unit , induced draught (ID) blower and chimney to treat the incombustible material in the form of smoke and the pollutants before releasing into the environment.
  • FIG 1 illustrates the block diagram of the system for disposal of Municipal Solid waste
  • FIG. 3 illustrates vibrator assembly
  • FIG. 4 and 5 illustrates shredder assembly shred the waste material into small pieces
  • Figure 6 illustrates an airlock inlet to feed the shredded waste into the incinerator
  • FIG. 7 illustrates the Incinerator Furnace Assembly
  • FIG. 8 illustrates the cross sectional view of Incinerator Furnace Assembly
  • FIG. 9 illustrates the cross sectional view of side wall of Incinerator Furnace Assembly
  • Figure 10 illustrates hot air harvester
  • Figure 11 illustrates FD blower
  • FIG. 12 illustrates Venturi Assembly
  • FIG. 13 illustrates horizontal Scrubber Assembly
  • FIG. 14 illustrates Wet Scrubber Assembly
  • Figure 15 illustrates induced draught (ID) blower
  • FIG. 16 illustrates water tank assembly
  • Figure 17 illustrates ash tray Assembly
  • the term “comprising” means that other steps and other components that do not affect the end result may be utilized.
  • the term “comprising” encompasses the expressions “consisting of,” and “consisting essentially of.”
  • the expression “effective amount,” as used herein denotes an amount of a compound or composition sufficient to significantly induce a positive benefit, preferably an oral health benefit, but low enough to avoid serious side effects, i.e., to provide a reasonable benefit to risk ratio, within the sound judgment of a person having ordinary skill in the art.
  • the use of singular identifiers such as “the,” “a,” or “an” is not intended to be limiting solely to the use of a single component, but may include multiple components.
  • Figure 1 illustrates the schematic view of a system for incinerating municipal solid waste disposal comprising; twin chambered furnace chamber having a primary burning chamber and a secondary burning chamber, an ascending conveyor feeding means, comber, vibrator, horizontal conveyors feeding means, shredders, ascending conveyors feeding means, positive air lock valve, incinerator, ash collecting assembly, FD blower, heat equalizer, venture scrubber, horizontal scrubber, vertical wet scrubber, mist eliminator, ID blower, exhaust chimney.
  • Figure 1 illustrates the block diagram of the system comprising first feeding means configured to feed the solid waste which enter into a comber device adapted to tear open the garbage bags. The is then taken to Vibrator in which all biodegradable (based of weight and small pieces) falls into lower portion is collected for bio-composting and converting into organic manure.
  • the non-biodegradables and non-recyclables like rejected plastic papers, shoes, bags, cloths (some them may include large biodegradable agro-waste) are separated from top outlet of vibrator is being collected separately.
  • the second feeding means configured to feed the non-biodegradables and non-recyclables like rejected plastic papers, shoes, bags, cloths to the shredder; third feeding means configured to feed the shredded waste material into the incinerator furnace through positive air lock valves positioned above the mid position of said furnace which is at the height of 2/3 height of the furnace.
  • Figure 2 illustrates the comber device (3) comprising a housing (25) having opening on top and bottom configured to accommodate pair of cylindrical comb holder rotatably connected to the side member of the housing and connected to the motor (27); comb holder provided with plurality of combs (26) mounted a space apart on circumference of the said comb holder; one end of the comb mounted to the comb holder and the other end is a comb sharp teeth member to tear open the garbage bags and pushed waste materials through the outlet (28); the comber assembly is mounted on the support structure (29).
  • Figure 3 illustrates the vibrator assembly (4) configured to separate stones, metal items etc comprising a slanting passage (32)consist of perforated base (30) with protecting walls on both sides of the passage to guide the garbage and vibratably connected with the spring elements(31) on base frame (33); magnetic material placed underneath the perforated base adapted to attract metal pieces from the garbage.
  • FIG. 4 and 5 illustrates the shredder assembly comprising; shredder assembly (7,9) comprising; an inlet (34, 43) for receiving the garbage from vibrator assembly (4); plurality of angled blade assembly (35) configured to be mounted on a at least two parallelly rotating shafts (37) for cutting natural, organic and synthetic materials; the shredder assembly (7) is mounted on the support structure (38, 44).
  • the shredder (7,9) adapted to cut large waste materials into smaller pieces.
  • two types of shredders are used cancam type shredder and fly wheel shredder.
  • the waste materials from vibrator are fed into cancam type shredder for shredding chappals, bags, cloths etc of bigger size, Polythene paper shredder which can cut bigger pieces/ sheets into smaller one ( less than 30 mm) and make easy for combustion.
  • the other type of shredder machine is fly wheel shredder, which is mainly used for shredding of vegetable and agro wastes.
  • the shredded materials were further segregated into bio degradable and non-biodegradables.
  • the bio-degradable are taken for biocomposting.
  • the non-biodegradables/ non recyclables are taken to furnace using conveyors.
  • Figure 6 illustrates air lock system (11) configured to permit the shredded waste material into the incinerator through a passage opens when the feeding means carry the shredded material and closes thereby no materials in the said feeding means. This ensures the heat loss from the incinerator and also prevents the flow of flue gas without any pollution treatment.
  • the incinerator comprising a furnace configured to burn the solid waste in the furnace (12) in vacuum into ash and flue gas where the waste material initially ignited using camphor flame and does not require any heating or fuel.
  • the incinerator furnace is hollow combustion chamber having constant diameter from an upper closed end to a lower end; the shape of the furnace is square, circle, hexagonal, octagonal or any other suitable shape.
  • the preferable shape is rectangular shape with 3 layer insulation including hard brick (50% alumina), insulation brick, insulation layer and redbrick.
  • Figure 7, 8 and 9 illustrates the incinerator comprising; support structure configured to provide support to the incinerator furnace structure (12), the said support structure having vertical support members (50) mounted on a base solid concrete floor (90) and cross support members configured to connect the vertical support members whereby providing strength to the support structure from the bottom end to the top end. Suitable support external iron structure was given from the bottom. Also intercross SS rods are given for better stable structure.
  • the incinerator furnace structure (12) having a sidewall and substantially flat bottom, said sidewall having three layers where the outer layer (91) being formed of red brick, middle layer (92) with insulation brick and the inner layer (93) lined with fire brick from the bottom to a predetermined height of said incinerator furnace structure (12) and the inner surface of the inner layer (93) being insulated with refractory material.
  • the side wall of the furnace comprising three layers where the thickness of outer layer (91) is between 180 and 280mm, middle layer (92) between 75mm and 150mmand the inner layer (93) between 180 and 280mm.
  • a port for ignition configured to ignite the solid waste provided at bottom of the side wall with camphor.
  • a forced draught (FD) Blower (15) supply the air through air inlet (60) secured at the bottom end of combustion chamber for introducing air tangentially for complete combustion.
  • the observation port with protective glass provided for observing the entire combustion process as and when required.
  • An airlock inlet (48) configured to feed the waste materials to be incinerated positioned in the top end of the combustion chamber.
  • the inner surface of said sidewall being substantially free from obstructions throughout its height configured to maintain the elevated temperature and free falling of waste material from the top end of said chamber.
  • Temperature monitoring means adapted to monitor the temperature inside the furnace.
  • the furnace was designed in such a way that major primary chamber which reaches about 600-700°C and mini secondary chamber (upper part of chamber) where temperature range 900-1100°C when non-biodegrdables like polyethylene were incinerated.
  • the furnace is a twin chambered furnace, more particularly the shape of the furnace is an integrated vertical twin chamber where the two chambers of the furnace configured to separate by a plurality of rods.
  • One side of the said rods fastened to side wall of the furnace from the inner circumference of the said furnace and other side of the rod projecting horizontally encircled to separate the two chambers.
  • the plurality of rods are fixed at equal distance from each other so as form a circular opening at the middle of the chamber and opening between the projecting rods adapted to be provided to let the garbage to fall into the burning area.
  • the projecting rods regulate the falling of garbage by minimizing the speed of falling garbage in a controlled manner into the burning area. It was found, if all the garbage from the inlet fall at a time into the burning area slow down the burning velocity whereas the rate of falling of garbage was minimized by the projecting rods enhance the burning velocity.
  • the primary burning chamber is refractory lined chamber comprising; outer layer constructed using red brick with the thickness between 275 and 325mm; middle layer is hot face material over the outer layer and on the inner circumference of chamber configured to provide super duty firebrick having 40-60% of alumina with a thickness between 80 and 100 mm; the inner layer over the alumina brick is insulated with calcium silicate having thickness between 25 and 55 mm; the entire furnace are supported by MS steel structure.
  • secondary Burning Chamber comprising outer layer is red brick with the thickness between 275 and 325mm; middle layer is ultra-high alumina ceramic bonded moldable material provided on the inner circumference of chamber with a thickness between 80 and 100 mm; the inner layer over the alumina brick is insulated with calcium silicate having thickness between 25 and 55 mm; the entire furnace are supported by MS steel structure.
  • the twin chamber configured to maintain the temperature between 600 and 1100 °C throughout the chamber.
  • the residence time of the flue gas generated after burning of the garbage is not less than lOsec due to the height of the chamber ensure complete combustion of solid material in the gas.
  • the hot air generated by virtue of burning the garbage is harvested and feeding back to the bottom of the vertical 2nd chamber.
  • the heat from furnace exit gas harvested in hot air harvester configured to pre heat the air supplied to furnace for escalating the combustion and the other part is used for drying the garbage to reduce moisture and enhance the burning.
  • the flue gas is directed to the pollution control unit. This contains five stages involving heat equalizer, cooing and venturi scrubbing, horizontal scrubber, vertical wet scrubber, water recycling system to extract residual carbon and the chimney.
  • FIG. 10 illustrates the heat from furnace exit gas harvested in hot air harvester (14) configured to pre heat the air supplied to furnace for escalating the combustion and the other part is used for drying the garbage to reduce moisture and enhance the burning;
  • hot air harvester (14) comprising inlet of flue gas generated in the incinerator configured to inflow through the hot air harvester assembly (52) adapted with plurality of hollow cylindrical mean (66) carrying fresh air supplied by the forced draft blower (15) through the inlet duct with fins (64); one end of the hollow cylindrical means mounted within the said hot air harvester and other end is positioned different heights of the incinerator to supply hot air which enhances the burning of waste materials; the hot flue gas generated from the incinerator transferred the heat to the air circulated inside the hollow cylindrical means when the hot air passed through the said hollow cylindrical means carrying air and released from the said hot air harvester through outlet duct (65).
  • Figure 11 illustrated forced draft blower (15) comprising fins assembly (68) configured to suck the air from the atmosphere and supplied to the hot air harvester (14) through the delivery outlet (69) by the motor drive (70) fitted on the base frame (71).
  • Figure 12 illustrates the throat venturi scrubber (16) collecting and treating both gaseous and particulate pollutants
  • a converging section (72) configured to receive the flue gas stream to the converging section whereby pressurized water is introduced extremely high velocities in the small throat section with plurality of nozzles whereby particulate matters removed from the gas stream and released to horizontal scrubber (8) through outlet cone (73); the particulate matter washed with the water and removed from venturi bottom elbow assembly (74).
  • Figure 13 illustrates horizontal scrubber (8) plurality of spraying means (24) fixed at the entry point configured to spray water from different directions at 360° whereby particles removed from the gas stream at maximum extent and drained through the water outlet (81) of the bottom end of the wet scrubber (17) and the gas steam moved to wet scrubber (17).
  • Figure 14 illustrates wet scrubber(17) comprising a hollow cylindrical member connected to the induced draft blower at the bottom end; half circle projection (79) is ceramic adapted to provide alternatively in the entire inner circumference of the cylindrical member; the cylindrical member having inlet for the entry of gas stream from the horizontal wet scrubber (8) and discharged the gas through the top end (80) and the mist eliminator (78) releases the mist formed during the spraying water on the upward gas stream; to pend provided with plurality of spraying means (76) connected to the water source and other side inserted into the top end of the cylindrical member to spray the water onto the moving upward gas stream; the particles removed from the gas stream is washed with water drained from the bottom end water out let (81).
  • Figure 15 illustrates, induced draft blower (18) mounted on the base frame (84); suction inlet (83) configured to suck the flue gas from the incinerator; delivery outlet (82) adapted to deliver the treated flue gas to the chimney (19).
  • Figure 16 illustrates water recycling means (20) comprising carbon filtering tank assembly (85) configured to deposit residual particles from the water used in the horizontal and vertical venturi assemblies and scrubber assembly by means of plurality of graded tanks; water reached to the upper tank configured to be maintained with pH 7 overflows to the lower tanks whereby residual particles precipitated in the plurality of tanks filtered and collected in the carbon collecting tank (88); water from the lowest tank of carbon filtering tank assembly (85) adapted to flow to the water tank assembly (86) whereby any residual particles remained the water allowed to deposit; the treated water stored in the tank (89) further circulated through cooling assembly (21) to lower the temperature of the water and stored in a pumped to venturi assembly.
  • carbon filtering tank assembly (85) configured to deposit residual particles from the water used in the horizontal and vertical venturi assemblies and scrubber assembly by means of plurality of graded tanks
  • water reached to the upper tank configured to be maintained with pH 7 overflows to the lower tanks whereby residual particles precipitated in the plurality of tanks filtered and collected in the carbon collecting tank (88); water
  • Figure 17 illustrates, the ash control unit (23) comprising ash tray fixing structure assembly (94) configured to accommodate plurality of perforated metal plates (95,96) provided at the bottom end of the combustion chamber adapted to allow the ash to be exited from the furnace;
  • the perforated metal plates are movable plates (96) and fixed immovable metal plates (95) to collect the ash and drop into chute (98) fitted beneath to remove the collected ash; ash tray fixing structure assembly (94) connected with the ash collecting handle assembly (97).
  • ID induced draught
  • Ash collecting plate is provided at the bottom to collect the ash and subsequent dropping into chute fitted below it. Suitable inlet doors were provided for various purpose. The entire system is enclosed and vacuum operated by ID blower, so that no smoke will come from outside.
  • ash After complete combustion, it gives ash of about 5-8 % depending on the nature of the source material.
  • binders In formulation unit the ash, binders, other ingredients are added along with water from recycling unit and mixed. These are then molded into paver blocks using colour mixer, concrete mixer, poured to moulder, pass through vibrator and then air dried. After 24 hours of air drying, it can be kept for curing. After a week, its ready for laying. So preparation of paver block from MSW is possible and we have prepared more than 100,000 pieces of different shapes and its being in use.
  • the present invention provide a method for municipal solid waste disposal comprising the steps of a) conveying of raw solid-waste onto a comber by means of a conveyer b) transferring solid waste to vibrator c) transferring to shredder machine by conveyor d) shredding of solid waste materials into smaller pieces for enabling better and fast combustion e) conveying the shredded waste onto an air-lock of the Incinerator by a second conveyor f) burning the solid waste in the primary chamber of the Incinerator using self-fuel g) collecting the ash generated in the primary burner of the Incinerator at the bottom h) utilizing the ash generated to make bricks i) harvesting hot air j) passing the heated air onto the secondary burner of the Incinerator for better efficiency k) burning of the volatile and solid particulates in the secondary burner of the Incinerator l) passing on the treated gases from the secondary burner of the Incinerator to a cooling unit/ pollution control unit and then to an exhaust chimney m) Preparing the plant for shut-down by cooling-
  • the present invention also relates to a method of treating gases from the secondary burner of the Incinerator by a pollution control unit, comprising the steps of a) venting the fumes from the furnace containing gaseous and particulate emissions, by ducts which are tracked down into the wet scrubber system by drawing it through a blower; b) collecting and treating both gaseous and particulate pollutants by the throat venturi scrubber; c) reducing the pollutant by means of water spray at high pressure through specially designed nozzle by the secondary cylindrical venturi scrubber cum polisher d) collection of ash at the bottom is stored and converted into solid bricks by combining with suitable additives in brick making unit.
  • the whole Incinerator structure is mounted on a base which is solid concrete floor.
  • Main structure of the incinerator fabricated from stainless steel plate with necessary fittings. It is supported from the floor level on a substantial steel support frame.
  • the Incinerator consists of the Primary Burner.
  • the Primary Burner has an internal shell lined with calcium silicate insulation and a hot face combination of super duty brick-work.
  • the primary chamber comprising port for ignition, combustion air distributed pipes, observation port with protective glass, flue gas outlet to secondary burner. Combustion of the waste solid takes place in the primary chamber which convert the solid waste to an ash.
  • the primary chamber is refractory lined chamber comprising; the outer layer is red brick layer provides support to the entire furnace with the thickness of 300mm; hot face material provided as middle layer is super duty firebrick (50% alumina); the usage is limited to continuous service at 1500 degree centigrade, with a thickness of 100 mm.
  • the inner insulation layer is provided by the using Calcium silicate, the usage is limited to continuous service 1000 °C and thickness 40 mm.
  • the entire furnace (3x4x12 meters) are supported by MS steel structure(12).
  • the Secondary Burning Chamber comprising; the middle layer is made of ultra-high alumina ceramic bonded moldable material where the outer and inner layer materials are same which is used in the primary chamber.
  • the usage of this unit is limited to service temperature of 1600°C.
  • the incinerator has an airlock inlet wherein the inlet is connected to feed the waste materials to be incinerated. A man hole is provided for visual purposes and cleaning services. Ignition points are provided below at the bottom.
  • the ignition is carried out in the main primary burning chamber using flame from camphor which is positioned along the side-wall to provide maximum hearth coverage.
  • the burner is controlled to enable accurate supply of air for continuous and complete burning (ll)by a flame at the bottom of the incinerator where the burning of garbage is controlled by regulating air supply, adjusting position of gates and lifting center plates.
  • the furnace / system is designed for recycling of sorted solid waste by means of incineration at a temperature of 700-1100°C.
  • the heat energy results from combustion can also be used in getting hot water or steam recovery boiler and also for drying the source material. In larger amount, heat can be used to generate electricity.
  • Cool-Down cycle This function automatically ensures completion of the incineration process and cycles the unit through a controlled cooling and shut down process to enables removal of the ash.
  • the charge door will be fitted with ceramic door seals, which compresses the door closes. Air will be closely controlled to enable accurate burning.
  • Waste will be charged via the main charger through air vent from shredder.
  • conveying means feed the solid waste onto the shredders wherein the all large materials are cut in to smaller pieces to facilitate the burning process.
  • Magnetic bars are placed at the appropriate places to remove iron materials, if any.
  • the further conveying means carry the solid waste materials to the airlock system positioned at the top end of the Incinerator.
  • Ignition of waste is carried out in the main primary chamber using flame from camphor.
  • the products of combustion from the primary chamber will exhaust into the secondary chamber located directly above the primary chamber for treatment.
  • the gases generated by burning the waste materials will exit to the secondary chamber, reside for at least 2-5 sec at 950- 1100°C, then to pollution control unit and directed to the mounted exhaust chimney.
  • a system for disposing municipal solid waste (1) comprising; first feeding means (2)configured to feed the solid waste; a comber device (3) adapted to tear open the garbage bags; a vibrator (4)configured to separate small pieces of biodegradable from non-biodegradables and non-recyclables materials; second feeding means (5,6) feed the waste material into a shredder (7) adapted to cut large waste materials into smaller pieces; third feeding means (10) configured to feed the shredded waste material into the incinerator furnace through positive air lock valves (11) positioned above the midposition of said furnace; the solid waste configured to be burned in the furnace (12) in vacuum into ash and gas; ash control unit (23) comprising ash tray fixing structure assembly (94) configured to accommodate plurality of perforated metal plates (95, 96) provided at the bottom end of the combustion chamber adapted to allow the ash to be exited from the furnace; the perforated metal plates are movable plates (96) and fixed immovable metal plates (107) to collect the ash and
  • the incinerator comprising; support structure configured to provide support to the incinerator furnace structure (12), the said support structure having vertical support members (50) mounted on a base solid concrete floor (90) and cross support members configured to connect the vertical support members (50) whereby providing strength to the support structure from the bottom end to the top end; incinerator furnace structure (12) having a sidewall and substantially flat bottom, said sidewall having three layers where the outer layer (57) being formed of red brick, middle layer (58) with insulation brick and the inner layer (59) lined with fire brick from the bottom to a predetermined height of said incinerator furnace structure (12) and the inner surface of the inner layer (59) being insulated with refractory material; a port for ignition configured to ignite the solid waste provided at bottom of the side wall; air inlet (60) secured at the bottom end of combustion chamber for introducing air tangentially for complete combustion from the hot air harvester (14) through the pipeline (54); observation port (51a) with protective glass provided for observing the combustion process;
  • the furnace is a twin chambered furnace, where the shape of the furnace is an integrated vertical twin chamber; plurality of rods (61) configured to separate the primary burning chamber (58) and secondary burning chamber (59) of the furnace ;one side of the said rods fastened to side wall of the furnace from the inner circumference of the said furnace and other side of the rod projecting horizontally encircled to separate the two chambers; plurality of rods (61) are fixed at equal distance from each other so as to form a circular opening (62) at the middle of the chamber and opening between the projecting rods adapted to be provided to let the garbage to fall into the burning area; projecting rods regulate the falling of garbage by minimizing the speed of falling garbage in a controlled manner into the burning area.
  • the twin chamber incinerator comprising primary and secondary burning chamber.
  • the primary chamber is refractory lined chamber having outer layer constructed using red brick with the thickness between 275 and 325mm; middle layer is hot face material over the outer layer and on the inner circumference of chamber configured to provide super duty firebrick having 40-60% of alumina with a thickness between 80 and 100 mm; the inner layer over the alumina brick is insulated with calcium silicate having thickness between 25 and 55 mm; the entire furnace ( 3x4x12 meters) are supported by MS steel structure (12).
  • the secondary burning chamber comprising outer layer is red brick with the thickness between 275 and 325mm; middle layer is ultra-high alumina ceramic bonded moldable material provided on the inner circumference of chamber with a thickness between 80 and 100 mm; the inner layer over the alumina brick is insulated with calcium silicate having thickness between 25 and 55 mm; the entire furnace are supported by MS steel structure.
  • the twin chamber incinerator configured to maintain the temperature between 900 and 1800 degree C throughout the chamber where the residence time of the flue gas generated after burning of the garbage is not less than lOsec due to the height of the chamber ensuring complete combustion of solid material in the gas.
  • a method for solid-waste disposal comprising the steps of a) feeding raw solid-waste onto a comber device (3) adapted to tear open the garbage bags through the conveying means (2); b) vibrating the garbage in the vibrator (4) configured to separate small pieces of biodegradable from non-biodegradables and non-recyclables materials; c) shredding (7) of solid waste materials into smaller pieces for enabling better and fast combustion; d) conveying the shredded waste onto an air-lock of the incinerator by conveying means (10); e) burning the solid waste in the combustion furnace (12) of the incinerator; f) collecting the ash generated by combustion and utilizing the ash generated to make solid bricks; g) absorbing the heat from the gas stream
  • Water sprays help prevent solids build-up.
  • the principal atomization of the liquid occurs at the rods, where the high-velocity gas moving through spacing's creates the small droplets necessary for fine particle collection.
  • These rods must be made of abrasion-resistant material due to the high velocities present.
  • the venture scrubbers require a separator because the high velocity of gas through the scrubber will have a tendency to entrain the droplets with the outlet clean gas stream.
  • a cyclonic, mesh-pad, ceramic mesh and blade separators are all used to remove liquid droplets from the flue gas and return the liquid to the scrubber water.
  • the scrubbed liquid requires effluent treatment, which includes filter cloth for particulates, filtration bed containing pebbles with different, sizes and sand filtration. This carried out in alternate tanks in batches, since the filtration is slow. The operation is by gravity and the filter water is recycled and directed to injector of venturi.
  • the carbon particles filtered in filter cloth is collected as fine powders, dried and used for various applications including agriculture, activated carbon, water and air pollution control treatments, catalyst etc.,.
  • Ash collected at the bottom is stored and converted into solid bricks by combining with suitable additives in brick making unit.
  • the steps involve screening, which results in separation of metal, glass pieces, etc. This further combined with fillers, rock chips and binders, mixed well in presence of water to make into a suitable mixture using additives. This further introduced into molding chamber, to make bricks of desirable shapes.
  • the resultant bricks are cured, tested for various properties and used for various applications including construction industry, high thermal industries, road laying etc.,.
  • venturi scrubbers of the present invention can have the highest particle collection efficiencies for the smoke emanating from burning of municipal solid wastes, by wet scrubbing system. These can be widely used due to their open construction, which enables them to remove most particles without plugging or scalding. It can also be used to absorb pollutant gases. In order to enhance the efficiency of removal of pollutant, a packed column is introduced.
  • these scrubbers have been designed to collect particles with very high collection efficiencies.
  • the ability of venturi to handle large inlet volumes at high temperatures makes them very attractive to other industries too. Consequently, they are used to reduce particulate emissions in a number of industrial applications, including high thermal industries, where emission reduction and for control of emissions is required.
  • the inlet gas enters the scrubber at temperatures greater than 350 degree centigrade.
  • fly ash and sulfur dioxide emissions from industrial operations.
  • Part of the flue gas after treatment shall be used for drying of inlet garbage by passing thru conveyer before entering furnace.
  • the flue gas is sent through a chimney with the height prescribed by regional pollution control boards. The out let gas is monitored with specific instruments. The water used in the process is recycled and the ash generated is converted into the bricks.
  • the unit has no fuel requirement for burning and less power consumption for operation.

Abstract

A system for solid municipal waste disposal for treating the municipal waste and the flue gas treated without any chemical and it is a green technology. The gas released after incineration to the environment is within the limit as prescribed by Pollution control Authority. The invention more particularly relates to disposal of solid municipal waste by incinerating said solid waste using the system and method into ash and flue gas where the pollutants in the generated gas was removed before leaving into environment. It is a green technology, where there is no chemical is used for treating the flue gas/ effluent.

Description

A SYSTEM FOR SOLID MUNICIPAL WASTE DISPOSAL
FIELD OF INVENTION
The invention relates to a system for solid waste disposal and method thereof. The invention more particularly relates to disposal of solid municipal waste by incinerating said solid waste using the system and method into ash and flue gas where the pollutants in the generated gas was removed before leaving into environment.
BACKGROUND OF INVENTION
Municipal solid waste is one of the major issue, which needs to be disposed and treated every day, else the place will turn into a dump yard which invites numerous infectious diseases. Though many treatment methods are available, there are much disadvantages as well which includes from segregation of the different solid waste based on their degrading factors and treating them accordingly, sufficient space to store and treat, pollution and heat liberated during the process of treatment. The background of the present invention relates to incinerator for disposing off solid waste. The present invention also relates to a system which incorporates the incinerator for solid waste disposal.
Prior art W02010102539A1 relates to a processing method for converting household garbage into energy source is disclosed, wherein the process flow comprises the following procedures: transporting garbage into factories, breaking, sorting, grinding, pressing, thinning, stirring, extrusion forming, packaging and binning. The invention is simple in technique, easy to implement, strong in operability, and convenient to promote its use, without adding any fuel, thus the household garbage can be converted into energy source and the sticky problem that the household garbage is difficult to be treated can be solved completely.
Prior art EP0194290B1 relates to a method and device for separating most of the waste material from sewage effluent, which incinerates a large portion of the waste to dispose of the waste in an environmentally safe manner. After separation, the aqueous byproduct from the sewage effluent is substantially waste free, allowing easy disposition or further treatment. The apparatus includes a housing and a filter in the housing to which the sewage effluent is introduced. The solid waste materials are trapped in the filter with a substantially aqueous by-product discharged from the device. A switch senses entry of the sewage effluent, starting operation of a heating element and a microwave generator which operate to substantially incinerate the waste material into an ash particulate. The gaseous by-products of the incineration are vented to the atmosphere and the ash particulate is vacuumed into a temporary storage container.
Prior art JP2020073278A relates to a processing system of combustible refuse which provide a processing system of a combustible refuse for processing of a raw refuse containing water without needing an incinerator and capable of reusing, not incinerating and disposing, of raw refuse. The processing system of a combustible refuse for processing of a raw refuse containing water includes: a separate collection of separately collecting a raw refuse being stored in a bag; bag rupturing and crushing step of taking out the raw refuse from the bag where the raw refuse is separately collected and stored; disinfecting the separately collected raw refuse by using a treating liquid containing regenerated water treated in a sewage treatment facility; a drying step of dewatering and drying the raw refuse 9 disinfected in the disinfection step; and a reuse step of reusing materials constituting the raw refuse dewatered and dried in the drying step.
Though many prior arts exist in the field of invention, the disadvantages still exists and not all the problems has been provided with a solution, but the present invention does.
The accumulation of a large amount of organic and municipal solid waste (MSW) is one of the most pressing ecological and economic problems of the modern world. Disposal of MSW in landfills results not only in removing valuable land from use but exposes surrounding areas to environmental hazards. The average caloric value of the sorted waste is 2200-2900 kcal/kg which is comparable with the calorific value of peat. After combustion, the wastes are converted into ash and carbon. Further using few additives the ash is being converted into solid bricks, using special formulation. Hence bricks can be used for any construction purpose and activated carbon, extracted from smoke is used for various purpose including agriculture.
Incinerators reduce the solid mass of the original waste by 80-85% and the volume (already compressed somewhat in garbage trucks) by 95-96%, depending on composition and degree of recovery of materials such as metals from the ash for recycling. This means that while incineration does not completely replace land-filling, it significantly reduces the necessary volume for disposal. Garbage trucks often reduce the volume of waste in a built-in compressor before delivery to the incinerator. Alternatively, at landfills, the volume of the uncompressed garbage can be reduced by approximately 70% by using a stationary steel compressor, albeit with a significant energy cost.
Incineration is a waste treatment process that involves the combustion of organic substances contained in waste materials. Incineration and other high-temperature waste treatment systems are described as "thermal treatment". Incineration of waste materials converts the waste into ash, flue gas and heat. The ash is mostly formed by the inorganic constituents of the waste, and may take the form of solid lumps or particulates carried by the flue gas. The flue gases must be cleaned of gaseous and particulate pollutants before they are dispersed into the atmosphere.
There is an emerging need for an incinerator with pollution control systems for solid waste disposal without the use of any external fuel and zero waste discharge.
The invention provides a method for solid waste disposal with pollution control systems resulting zero waste discharge. The entire assembly consisting of a shredding/ segregation unit, incineration block, filtration and pollution control block, Brick molding block as a whole in one unit is a totally novel system as the very purpose of waste to wealth is achieved in one go, with very little resources and with very high efficiency.
The main advantages over prior art / technology are that this technology / process uses no external fuel, a design of shredder for rapid burning of garbage, the unique design of nozzles inject air in particular ratio for good combustion, recovery of activated carbon from smoke, production of solid bricks from ash produced after incineration. It is the primary object of the invention to provide a system for solid waste disposal with pollution control systems resulting zero waste discharge.
The secondary object of the invention is to dispose the solid municipal waste without any additional fuel or external energy.
The third objective of the invention is to turn the burnt down ash to a reusable product.
The fourth objective of the invention is to adopt same method to dispose various kinds of waste with different biodegradable factors.
SUMMARY OF INVENTION
Accordingly, the present invention provides a system for disposing municipal solid waste comprising; first feeding means configured to feed the solid waste; a comber device adapted to tear open the garbage bags; a vibrator configured to separate small pieces of biodegradable from non-biodegradables and non-recyclables materials; a shredder adapted to cut large waste materials into smaller pieces; second feeding means configured to feed the shredded waste material into the incinerator furnace through positive air lock valves positioned above the mid position of said furnace; the solid waste configured to be burned in the furnace in vacuum into ash and gas; ash collecting plate is provided at the bottom of the furnace to collect the ash and drop into chute fitted beneath to remove the collected ash; air inlet provided to feed air into the furnace to facilitate complete combustion and temperature monitoring means adapted to monitor the temperature inside the furnace; gaseous and particulate matters discharged from the furnace treated in the pollution control unit ; induced draught (ID) blower configured to draw the gas from pollution control unit and release the said gas through an exhaust chimney with very low level of pollutants.
Another embodiment of the invention to provide a pollution control unit comprising of hot air harvester, venturi scrubber , horizontal scrubber , wet scrubber , filtration unit , induced draught (ID) blower and chimney to treat the incombustible material in the form of smoke and the pollutants before releasing into the environment. Further embodiment of the invention to provide a method for solid-waste disposal comprising the steps of a) feeding raw solid-waste onto a comber device adapted to tear open the garbage bags through the conveying means ; b) vibrating the garbage in the vibrator configured to separate small pieces of biodegradable from non-biodegradables and non-recyclables materials; c) shredding of solid waste materials into smaller pieces for enabling better and fast combustion; d) conveying the shredded waste onto an air-lock of the incinerator by conveying means ; e) burning the solid waste in the combustion furnace of the incinerator; f) collecting the ash generated by combustion and utilizing the ash generated to make solid bricks; g) absorbing the heat from the gas stream escaped from incinerator in the hot air harvester configured to pre heat the air supplied to furnace for escalating the combustion and the other part is used for drying the garbage to reduce moisture and enhance the burning; h) passing gas stream to a pollution control unit to remove the solid particulate matters; i) drawing the gas stream right from the incinerator outlet through pollution control unit by a induced draught (ID) blower and release the said gas through an exhaust chimney with very low and permissible level of pollutants.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS:
Figure 1 illustrates the block diagram of the system for disposal of Municipal Solid waste;
Figure 2 illustrates combing device
Figure 3 illustrates vibrator assembly
Figure 4 and 5 illustrates shredder assembly shred the waste material into small pieces
Figure 6 illustrates an airlock inlet to feed the shredded waste into the incinerator
Figure 7 illustrates the Incinerator Furnace Assembly
Figure 8 illustrates the cross sectional view of Incinerator Furnace Assembly
Figure 9 illustrates the cross sectional view of side wall of Incinerator Furnace Assembly
Figure 10 illustrates hot air harvester Figure 11 illustrates FD blower
Figure 12 illustrates Venturi Assembly
Figure 13 illustrates horizontal Scrubber Assembly
Figure 14 illustrates Wet Scrubber Assembly
Figure 15 illustrates induced draught (ID) blower
Figure 16 illustrates water tank assembly
Figure 17 illustrates ash tray Assembly
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
All technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which the invention pertains, unless defined otherwise. The following definitions supplement those in the art and are directed to the current application and are not to be imputed to any related or unrelated case, e.g., to any commonly owned patent or application. Although any methods and materials similar or equivalent to those described herein can be used in practice for testing, the preferred materials and methods are described herein. Accordingly, the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only, and is not intended to be limiting.
As used herein, the term "comprising" means that other steps and other components that do not affect the end result may be utilized. The term "comprising" encompasses the expressions "consisting of," and "consisting essentially of." The expression "effective amount," as used herein denotes an amount of a compound or composition sufficient to significantly induce a positive benefit, preferably an oral health benefit, but low enough to avoid serious side effects, i.e., to provide a reasonable benefit to risk ratio, within the sound judgment of a person having ordinary skill in the art. The use of singular identifiers such as "the," "a," or "an" is not intended to be limiting solely to the use of a single component, but may include multiple components.
Figure 1 illustrates the schematic view of a system for incinerating municipal solid waste disposal comprising; twin chambered furnace chamber having a primary burning chamber and a secondary burning chamber, an ascending conveyor feeding means, comber, vibrator, horizontal conveyors feeding means, shredders, ascending conveyors feeding means, positive air lock valve, incinerator, ash collecting assembly, FD blower, heat equalizer, venture scrubber, horizontal scrubber, vertical wet scrubber, mist eliminator, ID blower, exhaust chimney.
Figure 1 illustrates the block diagram of the system comprising first feeding means configured to feed the solid waste which enter into a comber device adapted to tear open the garbage bags. The is then taken to Vibrator in which all biodegradable (based of weight and small pieces) falls into lower portion is collected for bio-composting and converting into organic manure. The non-biodegradables and non-recyclables like rejected plastic papers, shoes, bags, cloths (some them may include large biodegradable agro-waste) are separated from top outlet of vibrator is being collected separately. The second feeding means configured to feed the non-biodegradables and non-recyclables like rejected plastic papers, shoes, bags, cloths to the shredder; third feeding means configured to feed the shredded waste material into the incinerator furnace through positive air lock valves positioned above the mid position of said furnace which is at the height of 2/3 height of the furnace.
Figure 2 illustrates the comber device (3) comprising a housing (25) having opening on top and bottom configured to accommodate pair of cylindrical comb holder rotatably connected to the side member of the housing and connected to the motor (27); comb holder provided with plurality of combs (26) mounted a space apart on circumference of the said comb holder; one end of the comb mounted to the comb holder and the other end is a comb sharp teeth member to tear open the garbage bags and pushed waste materials through the outlet (28); the comber assembly is mounted on the support structure (29).
Figure 3 illustrates the vibrator assembly (4) configured to separate stones, metal items etc comprising a slanting passage (32)consist of perforated base (30) with protecting walls on both sides of the passage to guide the garbage and vibratably connected with the spring elements(31) on base frame (33); magnetic material placed underneath the perforated base adapted to attract metal pieces from the garbage.
Figure 4 and 5 illustrates the shredder assembly comprising; shredder assembly (7,9) comprising; an inlet (34, 43) for receiving the garbage from vibrator assembly (4); plurality of angled blade assembly (35) configured to be mounted on a at least two parallelly rotating shafts (37) for cutting natural, organic and synthetic materials; the shredder assembly (7) is mounted on the support structure (38, 44). The shredder (7,9) adapted to cut large waste materials into smaller pieces. In the present invention two types of shredders are used cancam type shredder and fly wheel shredder. The waste materials from vibrator are fed into cancam type shredder for shredding chappals, bags, cloths etc of bigger size, Polythene paper shredder which can cut bigger pieces/ sheets into smaller one ( less than 30 mm) and make easy for combustion. The other type of shredder machine is fly wheel shredder, which is mainly used for shredding of vegetable and agro wastes. The shredded materials were further segregated into bio degradable and non-biodegradables. The bio-degradable are taken for biocomposting. The non-biodegradables/ non recyclables are taken to furnace using conveyors.
Figure 6 illustrates air lock system (11) configured to permit the shredded waste material into the incinerator through a passage opens when the feeding means carry the shredded material and closes thereby no materials in the said feeding means. This ensures the heat loss from the incinerator and also prevents the flow of flue gas without any pollution treatment.
The incinerator comprising a furnace configured to burn the solid waste in the furnace (12) in vacuum into ash and flue gas where the waste material initially ignited using camphor flame and does not require any heating or fuel. The incinerator furnace is hollow combustion chamber having constant diameter from an upper closed end to a lower end; the shape of the furnace is square, circle, hexagonal, octagonal or any other suitable shape. The preferable shape is rectangular shape with 3 layer insulation including hard brick (50% alumina), insulation brick, insulation layer and redbrick.
It is embodiment of the invention, Figure 7, 8 and 9 illustrates the incinerator comprising; support structure configured to provide support to the incinerator furnace structure (12), the said support structure having vertical support members (50) mounted on a base solid concrete floor (90) and cross support members configured to connect the vertical support members whereby providing strength to the support structure from the bottom end to the top end. Suitable support external iron structure was given from the bottom. Also intercross SS rods are given for better stable structure. The incinerator furnace structure (12) having a sidewall and substantially flat bottom, said sidewall having three layers where the outer layer (91) being formed of red brick, middle layer (92) with insulation brick and the inner layer (93) lined with fire brick from the bottom to a predetermined height of said incinerator furnace structure (12) and the inner surface of the inner layer (93) being insulated with refractory material. The side wall of the furnace comprising three layers where the thickness of outer layer (91) is between 180 and 280mm, middle layer (92) between 75mm and 150mmand the inner layer (93) between 180 and 280mm. A port for ignition configured to ignite the solid waste provided at bottom of the side wall with camphor. A forced draught (FD) Blower (15) supply the air through air inlet (60) secured at the bottom end of combustion chamber for introducing air tangentially for complete combustion. The observation port with protective glass provided for observing the entire combustion process as and when required. An airlock inlet (48) configured to feed the waste materials to be incinerated positioned in the top end of the combustion chamber. The inner surface of said sidewall being substantially free from obstructions throughout its height configured to maintain the elevated temperature and free falling of waste material from the top end of said chamber. Temperature monitoring means adapted to monitor the temperature inside the furnace.
The furnace was designed in such a way that major primary chamber which reaches about 600-700°C and mini secondary chamber (upper part of chamber) where temperature range 900-1100°C when non-biodegrdables like polyethylene were incinerated.
In one embodiment of the invention the furnace is a twin chambered furnace, more particularly the shape of the furnace is an integrated vertical twin chamber where the two chambers of the furnace configured to separate by a plurality of rods. One side of the said rods fastened to side wall of the furnace from the inner circumference of the said furnace and other side of the rod projecting horizontally encircled to separate the two chambers. The plurality of rods are fixed at equal distance from each other so as form a circular opening at the middle of the chamber and opening between the projecting rods adapted to be provided to let the garbage to fall into the burning area. The projecting rods regulate the falling of garbage by minimizing the speed of falling garbage in a controlled manner into the burning area. It was found, if all the garbage from the inlet fall at a time into the burning area slow down the burning velocity whereas the rate of falling of garbage was minimized by the projecting rods enhance the burning velocity.
The primary burning chamber is refractory lined chamber comprising; outer layer constructed using red brick with the thickness between 275 and 325mm; middle layer is hot face material over the outer layer and on the inner circumference of chamber configured to provide super duty firebrick having 40-60% of alumina with a thickness between 80 and 100 mm; the inner layer over the alumina brick is insulated with calcium silicate having thickness between 25 and 55 mm; the entire furnace are supported by MS steel structure.
Yet another embodiment of the invention, secondary Burning Chamber comprising outer layer is red brick with the thickness between 275 and 325mm; middle layer is ultra-high alumina ceramic bonded moldable material provided on the inner circumference of chamber with a thickness between 80 and 100 mm; the inner layer over the alumina brick is insulated with calcium silicate having thickness between 25 and 55 mm; the entire furnace are supported by MS steel structure.
Further aspect of the present invention, the twin chamber configured to maintain the temperature between 600 and 1100 °C throughout the chamber. The residence time of the flue gas generated after burning of the garbage is not less than lOsec due to the height of the chamber ensure complete combustion of solid material in the gas.
Still another aspect of the invention, the hot air generated by virtue of burning the garbage is harvested and feeding back to the bottom of the vertical 2nd chamber. The heat from furnace exit gas harvested in hot air harvester configured to pre heat the air supplied to furnace for escalating the combustion and the other part is used for drying the garbage to reduce moisture and enhance the burning.
From furnace the flue gas is directed to the pollution control unit. This contains five stages involving heat equalizer, cooing and venturi scrubbing, horizontal scrubber, vertical wet scrubber, water recycling system to extract residual carbon and the chimney.
An embodiment of the present invention Figure 10 illustrates the heat from furnace exit gas harvested in hot air harvester (14) configured to pre heat the air supplied to furnace for escalating the combustion and the other part is used for drying the garbage to reduce moisture and enhance the burning; hot air harvester (14) comprising inlet of flue gas generated in the incinerator configured to inflow through the hot air harvester assembly (52) adapted with plurality of hollow cylindrical mean (66) carrying fresh air supplied by the forced draft blower (15) through the inlet duct with fins (64); one end of the hollow cylindrical means mounted within the said hot air harvester and other end is positioned different heights of the incinerator to supply hot air which enhances the burning of waste materials; the hot flue gas generated from the incinerator transferred the heat to the air circulated inside the hollow cylindrical means when the hot air passed through the said hollow cylindrical means carrying air and released from the said hot air harvester through outlet duct (65).
One embodiment of the invention, Figure 11 illustrated forced draft blower (15) comprising fins assembly (68) configured to suck the air from the atmosphere and supplied to the hot air harvester (14) through the delivery outlet (69) by the motor drive (70) fitted on the base frame (71).
Figure 12 illustrates the throat venturi scrubber (16) collecting and treating both gaseous and particulate pollutants comprising a converging section (72) configured to receive the flue gas stream to the converging section whereby pressurized water is introduced extremely high velocities in the small throat section with plurality of nozzles whereby particulate matters removed from the gas stream and released to horizontal scrubber (8) through outlet cone (73); the particulate matter washed with the water and removed from venturi bottom elbow assembly (74).
Figure 13 illustrates horizontal scrubber (8) plurality of spraying means (24) fixed at the entry point configured to spray water from different directions at 360° whereby particles removed from the gas stream at maximum extent and drained through the water outlet (81) of the bottom end of the wet scrubber (17) and the gas steam moved to wet scrubber (17).
Figure 14 illustrates wet scrubber(17) comprising a hollow cylindrical member connected to the induced draft blower at the bottom end; half circle projection (79) is ceramic adapted to provide alternatively in the entire inner circumference of the cylindrical member; the cylindrical member having inlet for the entry of gas stream from the horizontal wet scrubber (8) and discharged the gas through the top end (80) and the mist eliminator (78) releases the mist formed during the spraying water on the upward gas stream; to pend provided with plurality of spraying means (76) connected to the water source and other side inserted into the top end of the cylindrical member to spray the water onto the moving upward gas stream; the particles removed from the gas stream is washed with water drained from the bottom end water out let (81).
Figure 15 illustrates, induced draft blower (18) mounted on the base frame (84); suction inlet (83) configured to suck the flue gas from the incinerator; delivery outlet (82) adapted to deliver the treated flue gas to the chimney (19).
Another embodiment of the invention, Figure 16 illustrates water recycling means (20) comprising carbon filtering tank assembly (85) configured to deposit residual particles from the water used in the horizontal and vertical venturi assemblies and scrubber assembly by means of plurality of graded tanks; water reached to the upper tank configured to be maintained with pH 7 overflows to the lower tanks whereby residual particles precipitated in the plurality of tanks filtered and collected in the carbon collecting tank (88); water from the lowest tank of carbon filtering tank assembly (85) adapted to flow to the water tank assembly (86) whereby any residual particles remained the water allowed to deposit; the treated water stored in the tank (89) further circulated through cooling assembly (21) to lower the temperature of the water and stored in a pumped to venturi assembly.
Figure 17 illustrates, the ash control unit (23) comprising ash tray fixing structure assembly (94) configured to accommodate plurality of perforated metal plates (95,96) provided at the bottom end of the combustion chamber adapted to allow the ash to be exited from the furnace; The perforated metal plates are movable plates (96) and fixed immovable metal plates (95) to collect the ash and drop into chute (98) fitted beneath to remove the collected ash; ash tray fixing structure assembly (94) connected with the ash collecting handle assembly (97).
The smoke and gaseous particulate matters discharged from the furnace treated in the pollution control unit where induced draught (ID) blower configured to draw the gas right from the furnace through pollution control unit and release the said gas through an exhaust chimney (19) with very low level of pollutants.
Ash collecting plate is provided at the bottom to collect the ash and subsequent dropping into chute fitted below it. Suitable inlet doors were provided for various purpose. The entire system is enclosed and vacuum operated by ID blower, so that no smoke will come from outside.
Combustion initiated by lighting Camphor from door side. Suitable air inlet arrangement and temperature monitoring devices were fitted. Once the combustion starts incineration happens as the result the ash formation will be collected from bottom portion of the furnace. The incombustible materials in the form of smoke were extracted into pollution control Unit (PCU) which consists of hot air harvester, venture scrubber, horizontal scrubber, wet scrubber, ID blower and chimney. Ambient air is injected with FD blower in to hot air harvester which is fitted on the top outlet of the furnace. Hot air generated by means of hot air harvester is used for basically two purpose i) to inject into furnace ii) for drying the input garbage. Both will lead to the efficiency of combustion. The entire chamber is well insulated till the venturi scrubber.
After complete combustion, it gives ash of about 5-8 % depending on the nature of the source material. These are directed to formulation and molding unit, after screening. In formulation unit the ash, binders, other ingredients are added along with water from recycling unit and mixed. These are then molded into paver blocks using colour mixer, concrete mixer, poured to moulder, pass through vibrator and then air dried. After 24 hours of air drying, it can be kept for curing. After a week, its ready for laying. So preparation of paver block from MSW is possible and we have prepared more than 100,000 pieces of different shapes and its being in use.
The present invention provide a method for municipal solid waste disposal comprising the steps of a) conveying of raw solid-waste onto a comber by means of a conveyer b) transferring solid waste to vibrator c) transferring to shredder machine by conveyor d) shredding of solid waste materials into smaller pieces for enabling better and fast combustion e) conveying the shredded waste onto an air-lock of the Incinerator by a second conveyor f) burning the solid waste in the primary chamber of the Incinerator using self-fuel g) collecting the ash generated in the primary burner of the Incinerator at the bottom h) utilizing the ash generated to make bricks i) harvesting hot air j) passing the heated air onto the secondary burner of the Incinerator for better efficiency k) burning of the volatile and solid particulates in the secondary burner of the Incinerator l) passing on the treated gases from the secondary burner of the Incinerator to a cooling unit/ pollution control unit and then to an exhaust chimney m) Preparing the plant for shut-down by cooling-cycle.
The present invention also relates to a method of treating gases from the secondary burner of the Incinerator by a pollution control unit, comprising the steps of a) venting the fumes from the furnace containing gaseous and particulate emissions, by ducts which are tracked down into the wet scrubber system by drawing it through a blower; b) collecting and treating both gaseous and particulate pollutants by the throat venturi scrubber; c) reducing the pollutant by means of water spray at high pressure through specially designed nozzle by the secondary cylindrical venturi scrubber cum polisher d) collection of ash at the bottom is stored and converted into solid bricks by combining with suitable additives in brick making unit.
In an embodiment of the invention, the whole Incinerator structure is mounted on a base which is solid concrete floor. Main structure of the incinerator, fabricated from stainless steel plate with necessary fittings. It is supported from the floor level on a substantial steel support frame. The Incinerator consists of the Primary Burner. The Primary Burner has an internal shell lined with calcium silicate insulation and a hot face combination of super duty brick-work. The primary chamber comprising port for ignition, combustion air distributed pipes, observation port with protective glass, flue gas outlet to secondary burner. Combustion of the waste solid takes place in the primary chamber which convert the solid waste to an ash. The primary chamber is refractory lined chamber comprising; the outer layer is red brick layer provides support to the entire furnace with the thickness of 300mm; hot face material provided as middle layer is super duty firebrick (50% alumina); the usage is limited to continuous service at 1500 degree centigrade, with a thickness of 100 mm. The inner insulation layer is provided by the using Calcium silicate, the usage is limited to continuous service 1000 °C and thickness 40 mm. The entire furnace (3x4x12 meters) are supported by MS steel structure(12).
The Secondary Burning Chamber comprising; the middle layer is made of ultra-high alumina ceramic bonded moldable material where the outer and inner layer materials are same which is used in the primary chamber. The usage of this unit is limited to service temperature of 1600°C. The incinerator has an airlock inlet wherein the inlet is connected to feed the waste materials to be incinerated. A man hole is provided for visual purposes and cleaning services. Ignition points are provided below at the bottom.
The ignition is carried out in the main primary burning chamber using flame from camphor which is positioned along the side-wall to provide maximum hearth coverage. The burner is controlled to enable accurate supply of air for continuous and complete burning (ll)by a flame at the bottom of the incinerator where the burning of garbage is controlled by regulating air supply, adjusting position of gates and lifting center plates. The furnace / system is designed for recycling of sorted solid waste by means of incineration at a temperature of 700-1100°C. The heat energy results from combustion can also be used in getting hot water or steam recovery boiler and also for drying the source material. In larger amount, heat can be used to generate electricity.
This process is carried out throughout the day, until the last charge has been introduced. Once introduced, the operator may select Cool-Down cycle. This function automatically ensures completion of the incineration process and cycles the unit through a controlled cooling and shut down process to enables removal of the ash. To minimize the heat loss the charge door will be fitted with ceramic door seals, which compresses the door closes. Air will be closely controlled to enable accurate burning.
The advantages of having a Primary Combustion System Operation are as follows:
• Combustion of the waste in the solid phase takes place.
• Provides complete combustion of the solid waste to an ash.
• Controls the combustion in the gaseous phase, to limit the formation of gases
• Prevents over loading of the secondary combustion system.
Waste will be charged via the main charger through air vent from shredder.
In one embodiment of the invention, conveying means feed the solid waste onto the shredders wherein the all large materials are cut in to smaller pieces to facilitate the burning process. Magnetic bars are placed at the appropriate places to remove iron materials, if any. The further conveying means carry the solid waste materials to the airlock system positioned at the top end of the Incinerator.
Ignition of waste is carried out in the main primary chamber using flame from camphor. The products of combustion from the primary chamber will exhaust into the secondary chamber located directly above the primary chamber for treatment. The gases generated by burning the waste materials will exit to the secondary chamber, reside for at least 2-5 sec at 950- 1100°C, then to pollution control unit and directed to the mounted exhaust chimney.
One embodiment of the invention, a system for disposing municipal solid waste (1) comprising; first feeding means (2)configured to feed the solid waste; a comber device (3) adapted to tear open the garbage bags; a vibrator (4)configured to separate small pieces of biodegradable from non-biodegradables and non-recyclables materials; second feeding means (5,6) feed the waste material into a shredder (7) adapted to cut large waste materials into smaller pieces; third feeding means (10) configured to feed the shredded waste material into the incinerator furnace through positive air lock valves (11) positioned above the midposition of said furnace; the solid waste configured to be burned in the furnace (12) in vacuum into ash and gas; ash control unit (23) comprising ash tray fixing structure assembly (94) configured to accommodate plurality of perforated metal plates (95, 96) provided at the bottom end of the combustion chamber adapted to allow the ash to be exited from the furnace; the perforated metal plates are movable plates (96) and fixed immovable metal plates (107) to collect the ash and drop into chute (98) fitted beneath to remove the collected ash; ash tray fixing structure assembly (94) connected with the ash collecting handle assembly (97) is provided at the bottom of the furnace to collect the ash and drop into chute (98) fitted beneath to remove the collected ash; air inlet (60) provided to feed air into the furnace to facilitate complete combustion and temperature sensing means(57a,b,c and d)adapted to sense the temperature in different position of the furnace and temperature monitoring means adapted to monitor the temperature inside the furnace; gaseous and particulate matters discharged from the furnace treated in the pollution control unit (14, 16, 17, 20); induced draught (ID) blower configured to draw the gas from pollution control unit and release the said gas through an exhaust chimney (19) with very low level of pollutants.
Further embodiment of the invention, the incinerator comprising; support structure configured to provide support to the incinerator furnace structure (12), the said support structure having vertical support members (50) mounted on a base solid concrete floor (90) and cross support members configured to connect the vertical support members (50) whereby providing strength to the support structure from the bottom end to the top end; incinerator furnace structure (12) having a sidewall and substantially flat bottom, said sidewall having three layers where the outer layer (57) being formed of red brick, middle layer (58) with insulation brick and the inner layer (59) lined with fire brick from the bottom to a predetermined height of said incinerator furnace structure (12) and the inner surface of the inner layer (59) being insulated with refractory material; a port for ignition configured to ignite the solid waste provided at bottom of the side wall; air inlet (60) secured at the bottom end of combustion chamber for introducing air tangentially for complete combustion from the hot air harvester (14) through the pipeline (54); observation port (51a) with protective glass provided for observing the combustion process; a muffle door (51b) configured to monitor the combustion; an airlock inlet (11) configured to feed the waste materials to be incinerated positioned in the top end of the combustion chamber; perforated metal plate (95, 96) provided at the bottom end of the combustion chamber adapted to allow the ash to be exited from the said chamber; the inner surface of said sidewall being substantially free from obstructions throughout its height configured to maintain the elevated temperature and free falling of waste material from the top end of said chamber where projecting rods (61) adapted to regulate the falling of garbage in a controlled manner into the burning area.
Another embodiment of the invention, the furnace is a twin chambered furnace, where the shape of the furnace is an integrated vertical twin chamber; plurality of rods (61) configured to separate the primary burning chamber (58) and secondary burning chamber (59) of the furnace ;one side of the said rods fastened to side wall of the furnace from the inner circumference of the said furnace and other side of the rod projecting horizontally encircled to separate the two chambers; plurality of rods (61) are fixed at equal distance from each other so as to form a circular opening (62) at the middle of the chamber and opening between the projecting rods adapted to be provided to let the garbage to fall into the burning area; projecting rods regulate the falling of garbage by minimizing the speed of falling garbage in a controlled manner into the burning area.
The twin chamber incinerator comprising primary and secondary burning chamber. The primary chamber is refractory lined chamber having outer layer constructed using red brick with the thickness between 275 and 325mm; middle layer is hot face material over the outer layer and on the inner circumference of chamber configured to provide super duty firebrick having 40-60% of alumina with a thickness between 80 and 100 mm; the inner layer over the alumina brick is insulated with calcium silicate having thickness between 25 and 55 mm; the entire furnace ( 3x4x12 meters) are supported by MS steel structure (12).
The secondary burning chamber comprising outer layer is red brick with the thickness between 275 and 325mm; middle layer is ultra-high alumina ceramic bonded moldable material provided on the inner circumference of chamber with a thickness between 80 and 100 mm; the inner layer over the alumina brick is insulated with calcium silicate having thickness between 25 and 55 mm; the entire furnace are supported by MS steel structure.
The twin chamber incinerator configured to maintain the temperature between 900 and 1800 degree C throughout the chamber where the residence time of the flue gas generated after burning of the garbage is not less than lOsec due to the height of the chamber ensuring complete combustion of solid material in the gas. A method for solid-waste disposal comprising the steps of a) feeding raw solid-waste onto a comber device (3) adapted to tear open the garbage bags through the conveying means (2); b) vibrating the garbage in the vibrator (4) configured to separate small pieces of biodegradable from non-biodegradables and non-recyclables materials; c) shredding (7) of solid waste materials into smaller pieces for enabling better and fast combustion; d) conveying the shredded waste onto an air-lock of the incinerator by conveying means (10); e) burning the solid waste in the combustion furnace (12) of the incinerator; f) collecting the ash generated by combustion and utilizing the ash generated to make solid bricks; g) absorbing the heat from the gas stream escaped from incinerator in the hot air harvester (14) configured to pre heat the air supplied to furnace for escalating the combustion and the other part is used for drying the garbage to reduce moisture and enhance the burning; h) passing gas stream to a pollution control unit to remove the solid particulate matters; i) drawing the gas stream right from the incinerator outlet through pollution control unit by a induced draught (ID) blower and release the said gas through an exhaust chimney (19) with very low level of pollutants.
The method for solid-waste disposal wherein ash collected during the burning in the incinerator onto an ash-tray through an ash-door fitted with a rotary valve and the ash is mixed with additives and made into bricks in the brick-making unit /molding unit. Table 1: Different Types of Municipal Wastes
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Certain types of orifices (throat areas) that create more turbulence than a true venturi were found to be equally efficient for a given unit of energy consumed. Results of these findings led to the development of the annular-orifice, or adjustable-throat, venturi scrubber. This contains a specially designed nozzle which atomizes liquid that is sprayed onto the plunger or swirled in from the top.
Water sprays help prevent solids build-up. The principal atomization of the liquid occurs at the rods, where the high-velocity gas moving through spacing's creates the small droplets necessary for fine particle collection. These rods must be made of abrasion-resistant material due to the high velocities present.
The venture scrubbers require a separator because the high velocity of gas through the scrubber will have a tendency to entrain the droplets with the outlet clean gas stream. Thus a cyclonic, mesh-pad, ceramic mesh and blade separators are all used to remove liquid droplets from the flue gas and return the liquid to the scrubber water. The scrubbed liquid, requires effluent treatment, which includes filter cloth for particulates, filtration bed containing pebbles with different, sizes and sand filtration. This carried out in alternate tanks in batches, since the filtration is slow. The operation is by gravity and the filter water is recycled and directed to injector of venturi.
The carbon particles filtered in filter cloth is collected as fine powders, dried and used for various applications including agriculture, activated carbon, water and air pollution control treatments, catalyst etc.,.
Finally the ash is converted into bricks. Ash collected at the bottom is stored and converted into solid bricks by combining with suitable additives in brick making unit. The steps involve screening, which results in separation of metal, glass pieces, etc. This further combined with fillers, rock chips and binders, mixed well in presence of water to make into a suitable mixture using additives. This further introduced into molding chamber, to make bricks of desirable shapes. The resultant bricks are cured, tested for various properties and used for various applications including construction industry, high thermal industries, road laying etc.,.
The venturi scrubbers of the present invention can have the highest particle collection efficiencies for the smoke emanating from burning of municipal solid wastes, by wet scrubbing system. These can be widely used due to their open construction, which enables them to remove most particles without plugging or scalding. It can also be used to absorb pollutant gases. In order to enhance the efficiency of removal of pollutant, a packed column is introduced.
Further, it has been observed that these scrubbers have been designed to collect particles with very high collection efficiencies. The ability of venturi to handle large inlet volumes at high temperatures makes them very attractive to other industries too. Consequently, they are used to reduce particulate emissions in a number of industrial applications, including high thermal industries, where emission reduction and for control of emissions is required. In some case, the inlet gas enters the scrubber at temperatures greater than 350 degree centigrade. It was also successful to controlling fly ash and sulfur dioxide emissions from industrial operations. Part of the flue gas after treatment shall be used for drying of inlet garbage by passing thru conveyer before entering furnace. Finally the flue gas is sent through a chimney with the height prescribed by regional pollution control boards. The out let gas is monitored with specific instruments. The water used in the process is recycled and the ash generated is converted into the bricks.
Table 2: Comparison of Ambient Air test report for Kodungaiyur Plant, Chennai
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NAAQ- National Ambient Air Quality Standards. BLQ: Below limits of Quantification
LOQ: Limits of Quantification.
The result produced in below Table 2 exhibit the various possible pollutants in the air and the maximum allowable limit by National Ambient Air Quality Standards. The air was collected from three different locations nearby the system of present invention installed. It is surprisingly found that the limit of the possible pollutants in the gas released after treating the flue gas produced during incineration of the present invention is very low and in some cases negligible amount. Emission Test Report-CTAL., Chennai
Certification NO: 18020637 Date: 16-02-2018
Report of Analysis
Sample: Garbage Ash
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It is evident from the above table that the metals present in the municipal waste were converted into its oxides. Thus the ash obtained from the burnt waste can be used as one of the ingredient for manufacturing pavers block. Emission Test Report of Kodungaiyur plant, Chennai
Test Report No: KGS/0321/TR/S-107 Date: 30-03-2021
Sample Description: Incinerators Stack Emission Sample Mark: Kondungaiyur Stack
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CPCB: Central Pollution Control Board
BLQ: Below Limit of Quantification
LOQ: Limit of Quantification Comparing various possible pollutants present in the air nearby emission area of the present invention and the maximum allowable limit by National Ambient Air Quality Standards clearly shows the treated flue gas release to the environment is safe and well within the allowed limit of various authorities. The air was collected from three different location nearby the system of present invention installed. It is surprisingly found that the limit of the possible pollutants in the gas released after treating the flue gas produced during incineration of the present invention is very low and in some cases negligible amount.
Advantages of the furnace developed environmental protection:
• The area of existing dump yard will be reduced to about 2% as the municipal waste cleared on the same day.
• Reduction of green-house gases leading to global warming by carbon sequestration.
• Reduction in pollution of air, water and soil which help in animals, plants and human beings.
Zero waste:
• All wastes are converted into harmless useful and value-added products. Value added products include organic manure, solid bricks and activated carbon.
Cost-effectiveness and simplicity
• Low operating costs. The unit has no fuel requirement for burning and less power consumption for operation.
Easy to use
• With the various automation, easy to operate and maintain. Remote monitoring is possible.
Compliance with norms and standards
• The installation meets the environmental regulations and technical standards of
Central Pollution Control Board and most of other countries
Reduction in Garbage Disposal costs
• Reduction of waste disposal costs to government in terms of land (only 2 acres for 100TPD garbage) and bio-mining cost at later stage.
Reduction in medical expenses
• On long run and effective management, there will be reduction in health complaints due to Garbage pollution, which in turn reduce medical expenses for Govt, and public.
Public relations:
• Improved image on Government on public service.
• Reduction of public complaints to the state regulatory authorities. High Employment opportunity
• Opening huge employment opportunity including manufacturing, installation, operation and maintenance nation- wide.
While considerable emphasis has been placed herein on the specific structure of the preferred embodiment, it will be appreciated that many alterations can be made and that many modifications can be made in the preferred embodiment without departing from the principles of the invention.
These and other changes in the preferred embodiment as well as other embodiments of the invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art from the disclosure herein, whereby it is to be distinctly understood that the forgoing descriptive matter is interpreted merely as illustrative of the invention and not as a limitation.
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Claims

We Claim,
1. A system for disposing municipal solid waste (1) comprising; first feeding means (2) configured to feed the solid waste; a comber device (3) adapted to tear open the garbage bags; a vibrator (4) configured to separate small pieces of biodegradable from non- biodegradables and non-recyclables materials; second feeding means (5,6) feed the waste material into a shredder (7) adapted to cut large waste materials into smaller pieces; third feeding means (10) configured to feed theshredded waste material into the incinerator furnace through positive air lock valves (11) positioned above the midposition of said furnace; the solid waste configured to be burned in the furnace (12) in vacuum into ash and gas; ash control unit (23) comprising ash tray fixing structure assembly (94) configured to accommodate plurality of perforated metal plates (95, 96) provided at the bottom end of the combustion chamber adapted to allow the ash to be exited from the furnace;the perforated metal plates are movable plates (96) and fixed immovable metal plates (107) to collect the ash and drop into chute (98) fitted beneath to remove the collected ash; ash tray fixing structure assembly (94) connected with the ash collecting handle assembly (97) is provided at the bottom of the furnace to collect the ash anddrop into chute (98) fitted beneath to remove the collected ash; air inlet (60) provided to feed air into the furnace to facilitate complete combustion and temperature sensing means(57a,b,c and d) adapted to sense the temperature in different position of the furnace and temperature monitoring means adapted to monitor the temperature inside the furnace; gaseous and particulate matters discharged from the furnace treated in the pollution control unit (14, 16, 17, 20); induced draught (ID) blowerconfigured to draw the gas from pollution control unit and release the said gas through an exhaust chimney (19) with very low level of pollutants.
2. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the incinerator comprising; support structure configured to provide support to the incinerator furnace structure (12), the said support structure having vertical support members (50) mounted on a base solid concrete floor (90) and cross support members configured to connect the vertical support members (50) whereby providing strength to the support structure from the bottom end to the top end; incinerator furnace structure (12) having a sidewall and substantially flat bottom, said sidewall having three layers where the outer layer (57) being formed of red brick, middle layer (58) withinsulation brick and the inner layer (59) lined with fire brick from the bottom to a predetermined height of said incinerator furnace structure (12) and the inner surface of the inner layer (59) being insulated with refractory material; a port for ignition configured to ignite the solid waste provided at bottom of the side wall; air inlet (60) secured at the bottom end of combustion chamber for introducing airtangentially for complete combustion from the hot air harvester (14) through the pipeline (54); observation port (51a) with protective glass provided for observing the combustion process; a muffle door (51b) configured to monitor the combustion; an airlock inlet (11) configured to feed the waste materials to be incinerated positioned in the top end of the combustion chamber; perforated metal plate (95, 96) provided at the bottom end of the combustion chamber adapted to allow the ash to be exited from the said chamber; the inner surface of said sidewall being substantially free from obstructions throughout its height configured to maintain the elevated temperature and free falling of waste material from the top end of said chamber where projecting rods (61) adapted to regulate the falling of garbage in a controlled manner into the burning area. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the furnace is a twin chambered furnace, where the shape of the furnace is an integrated vertical twin chamber; plurality of rods (61) configured to separate the primary burning chamber (58) and secondary burning chamber (59) of the furnace; one side of the said rods fastened to side wall of the furnace from the inner circumference of the said furnace and other side of the rod projecting horizontally encircled to separate the two chambers; plurality of rods (61) are fixed at equal distance from each other so as to form a circular opening (62) at the middle of the chamber and opening between the projecting rods adapted to be provided to let the garbage to fall into the burning area; projecting rods regulate the falling of garbage by minimizing the speed of falling garbage in a controlled manner into the burning area. The system as claimed in claim 1, whereinthe shredded solid waste incinerated in the incinerator configured to convert ash and flue gas where the ash removedthrough ash door fitted with butterfly valve and converted into solid bricks after screening and molding process. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the incinerator furnace ishollow combustion chamber having constant diameter from an upper closed end to a lower end; the shape of the furnace is square, circle, hexagonal, octagonal or any other suitable shape, preferably circular, square, rectangular shape with 3 layer insulation including hard brick (50% alumina), insulation brick, insulation layer and redbrick. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the side wall of the furnace is refractory lined chamber comprising; outer layer (91) constructed using red brick with the thickness between 275 and 325mm; middle layer (92) is hot face material over the outer layer and on the inner circumference of chamber configured to provide super duty firebrick having 40-60% of alumina with a thickness between 80 and 100 mm; the inner layer (93) over the alumina brick is insulated with calcium silicate having thickness between 25 and 55 mm. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the furnace (12) of the incinerator unit burn the solid waste the temperature between 700 and 1600 degree centigrade with a thermal conductivity of 1.62W/mk. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the ash control unit (23) comprising ash tray fixing structure assembly (94) configured to accommodate plurality of perforated metal plates (95,96) provided at the bottom end of the combustion chamber adapted to allow the ash to be exited from the furnace; The perforated metal plates are movable plates (96) and fixed immovable metal plates (95) to collect the ash and drop into chute (98) fitted beneath to remove the collected ash;ash tray fixing structure assembly (94) connected with the ash collecting handle assembly (97).
9. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the pollution control unit comprising of hot air harvester (14), throat venturi scrubber (16), horizontal scrubber (8), wet scrubber (17), induced draft (ID) blower (18), water recycling means (20) and chimney (19) to treat the incombustible material in the form of smoke and the pollutants before releasing into the environment.
10. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the heat from furnace exit gas harvested in hot air harvester (14) configured to pre heat the air supplied to furnace for escalating the combustion and the other part is used for drying the garbage to reduce moisture and enhance the burning; hot air harvester (14) comprising inlet of flue gas generated in the incinerator configured to inflow through the hot air harvester assembly (52) adapted with plurality of hollow cylindrical mean (66) carrying fresh air supplied by the forced draft blower (15) through the inlet duct with fins (64); one end of the hollow cylindrical means mounted within the said hot air harvester and other end is positioned different heights of the incinerator to supply hot air which enhances the burning of waste materials; the hot flue gas generated from the incinerator transferred the heat to the air circulated inside the hollow cylindrical means when the hot air passed through the said hollow cylindrical means carrying air and released from the said hot air harvester through outlet duct (65).
11. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the throat venturi scrubber (16) collecting and treating both gaseous and particulate pollutants comprising a converging section (72) configured to receive the flue gas stream to the converging section whereby pressurized water is introduced extremely high velocities in the small throat section with plurality of nozzles whereby particulate matters removed from the gas stream and released to horizontal scrubber (8) through outlet cone (73); the particulate matter washed with the waterand removed from venturi bottom elbow assembly (74).
12. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein horizontal scrubber (8) plurality of spraying means (24) fixed at the entry point configured to spray water from different directions at 360 degreewherebyparticles removed from the gas stream at maximum extent and drained through the water outlet (81) of the bottom end of the wet scrubber (17) and the gas steam moved to wet scrubber (17).
13. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein wet scrubber(17) comprising a hollow cylindrical member connected to the induced draft blower at the bottom end;half circle projection (79) is ceramic adapted to provide alternatively in the entire inner circumference of the cylindrical member; the cylindrical member having inlet for the entry of gas stream from the horizontal wet scrubber (8) and discharged the gas through the top end (80) and the mist eliminator (78) releases the mist formed during the spraying water on the upward gas stream; topend provided with plu ra lity of spraying means (76) connected to the water source and other side inserted into the top end of the cylindrical member to spray the water onto the moving upward gas stream; the particles removed from the gas stream is washed with water drained from the bottom end water out let (81).
14. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein water recycling means (20) comprising carbon filtering tank assembly (85) configured to deposit residual particles from the water used in the horizontal and vertical venturi assemblies and scrubber assembly by means of plurality of graded tanks; water reached to the upper tank configured to be maintained with pH 7 overflows to the lower tanks whereby residual particles precipitated in the plurality of tanks filtered and collected in the carbon collecting tank (88); water from the lowest tank of carbon filtering tank assembly (85) adapted to flow to the water tank assembly (86) whereby any residual particles remained the water allowed to deposit; the treated water stored in the tank (89) further circulated through cooling assembly (21) to lower the temperature of the water and stored in a pumped to venturi assembly.The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the comber device (3) comprising ahousing (25) having opening on top and bottom configured to accommodate pair of cylindrical comb holder rotatably connected to the side member of the housing and connected to the motor (27); comb holder provided with plurality of combs (26) mounted a space aparton circumference of the said comb holder; one end of the comb mounted to the comb holder and the other end is a comb sharp teeth memberto tear open the garbage bags and pushed waste materials through the outlet (28); the comber assembly is mounted on the support structure (29). The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein a vibrator assembly (4) configured to separate stones, metal items etc comprising a slanting passage (32)consist of perforated base (30) with protecting walls on both sides of the passage to guide the garbage and vibratably connected with the spring elements(31) on base frame (33); magnetic material placed underneath the perforated base adapted to attract metal pieces from the garbage. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein shredder assembly (7) comprising; a inlet (34) for receiving the garbage from vibrator assembly(4); plurality of angled blade assembly (35) configured to be mounted on a at least two paral lelly rotating shafts (37) for cutting natural, organic and synthetic materials; the shredder assembly (7) is mounted on the support structure (38). A method for solid-waste disposal comprising the steps of a. feeding raw solid-waste onto a comber device (3) adapted to tear open the garbage bags through the conveying means (2); b. vibrating the garbage in the vibrator (4) configured to separate small pieces of biodegradable from non-biodegradables and non-recyclables materials; c. shredding (7) of solid waste materials into smaller pieces for enabling better and fast combustion; d. conveying the shredded waste onto an air-lock of the incinerator by conveying means (10); e. burning the solid waste in the combustionfurnace (12) of the incinerator; f. collecting the ash generated by combustion and utilizing the ash generated to make solid bricks; g. absorbing the heat from the gas stream escaped from incinerator in the hot air harvester (14) configured to pre heat the air supplied to furnace for escalating the combustion and the other part is used for drying the garbage to reduce moisture and enhance the burning; h. passing gas stream to a pollution control unit to remove the solid particulate matters; i. drawing the gas stream right from the incinerator outlet through pollution control unit by a induced draught (ID) blowerand release the said gas through an exhaust chimney (19) with very low level of pollutants. The method for solid-waste disposal as claimed in claim 15, wherein ash collected during the burning in the incinerator onto an ash-tray through an ash-door fitted with a rotary valve and the ash is mixed with additives and made into bricks in the brick-making unit /molding unit. The method for solid-waste disposal as claimed in claim 15, wherein the pollution control unit comprising of hot air harvester (14), venture scrubber (16), horizontal scrubber (8), wet scrubber (17) separates the solid particulate matter form the gas stream drawn by induced draught (ID) blower (18) and releasing the treated gas stream into the environment through chimney (19); the residual particles in the water removed in the water recycling means (20). The method for solid-waste disposal as claimed in claim 15, wherein the throat venturi scrubber (16) collecting and treating both gaseous and particulate pollutants comprising a converging section configured to receive the inlet gas stream to the converging section whereby pressurized water is introduced extremely high velocities in the small throat section; particulate matters removed from the gas stream. The method for solid-waste disposal as claimed in claim 15, wherein horizontal scrubber (8) and wet scrubber system (17) configured to reduce the pollutants and solid particulate matters in the gas stream.
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