Patent ID: 6666955
Filing Date: 2003-12-23
Classification: C10B,C10G,Y02P

Abstract:
An apparatus for the reclaiming volatile products and non-volatile residue through the pyrolysis of a volume of polymeric material, comprising:an input chamber defining an input for receiving the polymeric material; a pump for evacuating said input chamber; a reactor; an input gate interposed between said input chamber and said reactor for transferring the polymeric material from said input chamber to said reactor; means for establishing an oxygen deficient atmosphere in said reactor; a first and a second surface located within said reactor with at least one of said first and the second surfaces being heated; a drive for linearly moving at least one of the first and the second surfaces toward one another to simultaneously compress and heat the volume of polymeric material to a temperature sufficient to pyrolyze the volume of polymeric material to reduce the volume of the polymeric material and to produce volatile products and non-volatile residue until essentially all of the volume of polymeric material is transformed into volatile products and non-volatile residue; a residue chamber; an output port communicating with said reactor; and an output gate interposed between said reactor and said residue chamber for transferring the residual non-volatile pyrolysis residue from said reactor to said residue chamber.