Patent ID: 9394484
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: C01B,C10B,C10K,F01K,F23G,F23J,Y02P

Claim Text:
1. A pyrolysis device comprising: a combustion chamber containing one or more burners configured to generate hot flue gases; a main retort, disposed within the combustion chamber, configured to at least partially pyrolyze a feedstock delivered to the retort, thereby generating syngas; a syngas relief conduit, into which syngas flows from the main retort; a flue gas relief duct, into which flue gas is exhausted from the combustion chamber, the flue gas relief duct being separate from the combustion chamber and having a first end in sealing fluid communication with the combustion chamber wherein the syngas relief duct is disposed within the flue gas relief duct and a long axis of the syngas relief duct is generally perpendicular to a horizontal plane taken through a long axis of the main retort; and a mixing chamber, into which the syngas flows from the syngas relief duct and the flue gas flows from the flue gas relief duct.