Patent ID: 6849160

Claim:
An apparatus for the pyrolysis of waste, comprising: a rotating cell formed of a cylinder, said cylinder having a diameter and two ends, in combination with a truncated cone rotating on the same axis, said truncated cone having a large base and a small base, said large base and said small base each having a diameter, the diameter of said cylinder being larger than the diameter of said large base of said truncated cone, and a region extending between said large base of said truncated cone and said end of said cylinder which is adjacent to said large base of said truncated cone, said region forming a retaining threshold resulting from a difference between the diameter of the cylinder and the diameter of the large base of the truncated cone and creating a region of intimate contact of the waste with itself whereby the waste is converted into coke which is used in the truncated cone as fuel for pyrolysis of the waste, wherein a main longitudinal axis of the rotating cell is inclined with respect to the horizontal.