Patent ID: 8114663

Claim:
A waste management and resource recovery system, comprising a plurality of subsystems: (a) wherein at least part of the output of each of a subplurality of the subsystems is supplied to at least one other subsystem as an input to that other subsystem; (b) wherein the subsystems include: (i) a burner; (ii) a hydrothermal processor assembly; (A) wherein the hydrothermal processor assembly is in communication with the burner; (iii) a bioreactor assembly; (A) wherein at least part of the output from the hydrothermal processor assembly is an input to the bioreactor assembly; and, (iv) a fuel cell assembly; (A) wherein at least part of the output from the bioreactor processor assembly is an input to the fuel cell assembly; and, (c) further including a steam accumulator for supplying steam from the burner to the hydrothermal processor assembly.