Patent ID: 6818176
Filing Date: 2004-11-16
Classification: C22B,F27B,F27D,Y02E,Y02P,Y10S

Abstract:
A waste incinerator configured to substantially prevent the introduction of air for supporting combustion comprising:a combustion region; a burner; a fuel supply for supplying a fuel; an oxidizing agent supply for supplying oxygen for supporting combustion at a predetermined purity; a waste supply; for feeding waste to be incinerated into the combustion region; means for feeding the oxygen and the fuel and waste into the incinerator in a stoichiometric proportion to one another; means for limiting an excess of either the oxygen or the fuel and waste to less than 5 percent over the stoichiometric proportion; and means for controlling the combustion of the fuel and waste and the oxygen to produce a flame for incinerating the waste, the combustion being controlled to produce a flame having a temperature in excess of about 4500Â° F.