Patent ID: 8017040

Claim:
A method for select product gas generation from solid carbonaceous materials comprising the steps of: inputting a feedstock solids carbonaceous material; subjecting said feedstock solids carbonaceous material to a pressurized environment; increasing an temperature within said pressurized environment to which said feedstock solids carbonaceous material is subjected; engaging said feedstock solids carbonaceous material with a plurality of movement guides; transporting said feedstock solids carbonaceous material through an increasing temperature gradient in a temperature varied environment as a result of said movement guides; moving said feedstock solids carbonaceous material through a liquefaction zone of said temperature varied environment as a result of said transporting; pyrolytically decomposing at least a portion of said feedstock solids carbonaceous material in a solid carbonaceous materials gasifier system; creating a pyrolytically decomposed carbonaceous material; processing said pyrolytically decomposed carbonaceous material in said solid carbonaceous materials gasifier system to generate at least some components of a select product gas; outputting at least some select product gas from said solid carbonaceous materials gasifier system in response to said step of processing; cycling said movement guides throughout a varied temperature regime; automatically periodically clearing said movement guides as a result of said step of cycling said movement guides throughout a varied temperature regime.