Patent ID: 8544776

Claim:
A device for dissociating feed material occurring as mixed materials, the device comprising: a rotor/stator system arranged within a housing, a rotor of the rotor/stator system being equipped around its circumference with processing tools which are radially opposed by stator tools that are arranged stationary relative to the housing while maintaining a working gap; a first circumferential section for supply of the feed material and wherein the processing of the feed material takes place along a second circumferential section, the second circumferential section being divided in a direction of rotation of the rotor into a first subsection and at least one additional second subsection, the first subsection and the at least one additional second subsection each forming a processing zone; and a stator tool followed by a processing path being provided at a start of each processing zone with respect to the direction of rotation of the rotor, wherein each processing zone has its own specific process parameters for a given type of processing, at least two of the processing zones having different process parameters for different types of processing, wherein the device has an operating configuration wherein working gaps, between two successive pairs of tools in the direction of rotation having the stator tool and the processing tool, are different sizes, and wherein at least two of the processing zones have different types of stator tools for different types of processing.