Patent ID: 7101464

Claim:
A microwave distillation apparatus for providing destructive distillation of whole waste tires, said apparatus comprising: a housing comprising a plurality of chambers, said chambers including a preheat chamber for providing preheating of a whole waste tire received therein, and an irradiation chamber, thermally coupled to said preheat chamber such that heat generated in said irradiation chamber produces heat in said preheat chamber, for receiving a preheated whole waste tire from said preheat chamber; said apparatus further comprising microwave energy supply means for supplying microwave energy to said irradiation chamber to provide destructive distillation of a preheated whole waste tire received in said irradiation chamber, said microwave energy supply means comprising at least first and second microwave sources positioned on opposite sides of said irradiation chamber for directing microwave energy into said irradiation chamber so as to irradiate both sides of the tire received in said irradiation chamber, said chambers further comprising a cooling chamber, located below said irradiation chamber, for receiving by-products of said destructive distillation and for providing delivery of said by-products from said housing, and said chambers being vertically arranged.