The PFE is designed to assure extremely rapid gasification of the organic feed by exposure to extremely hot air from a plasma torch. Destruction efficiency has been determined for several PFE configurations to identify the important design considerations and constraints. The hot plasma torch gas enters along the centerline at 5000 degrees K, while particulate and carrier air enter from an annulus about the torch gas.
Gasification begins as the particles rapidly absorb energy from the high enthalpy torch gas.
A narrow region along the wall remains relatively cool. Vortex Incinerator Animation showing isotherms. The products of combustion enter the main incineration chamber at very near the adiabatic flame temperature. These slices give us some insight into the nature and strength of our right hand vortex. These slices give us some insight into the nature and strength of our right hand vortex.