Patent ID: 8197768

Claim:
An apparatus for conversion of materials, including asbestos, equipped with a thermal reactor including a heating chamber having at least one microwave generator comprising: a crusher for converted material for crushing whole elements containing asbestos; a screw conveyor for continuously conveying particles of the converted material and mixing the particles with an agent facilitating heating; a feeder/dispenser of an agent facilitating heating; and a thermal microwave reactor, wherein the feeder/dispenser is connected to at least one of the crusher, the screw conveyor, and the reactor, and the heating chamber is made of microwave radiation non-absorbing material and is located directly at an outlet of the screw conveyor, and the heating chamber is placed in a metal housing, and a microwave generator unit with microwave radiators is fixed to the metal housing, wherein microwave generators are uniformly displaced on a circumference of the metal housing, and the microwave generators further comprise radiators emitting polarized waves, wherein radiators located opposite to each other emit polarized waves with mutually perpendicular polarization in a frequency band of 2.45 GHz or 915 MHz, and both the heating chamber and the metal housing have the form of cylinders situated coaxially, between which an insulating space is created.