Patent ID: 8808510

Claim:
A system for a constituent rendering of carbon-based feedstock comprising: a pressure chamber defining an enclosed interior volume, a feedstock input port and at least one gas output port; a feedstock input system in communication with the feedstock input port, wherein the feedstock input system comprises: an auger feed tube; at least one feed stock auger screw, wherein the at least one feedstock auger screw is located within the auger feed tube; at least one grinding station contained within the auger feed tube, wherein the at least one grinding station comprises a die attached to the at least one feed stock auger screw, wherein the grinding station is configured to grind the carbon-based feedstock into smaller carbon-based feedstock pieces by the at least one auger feed screw forcing the carbon-based feedstock through the die prior to the carbon-based feedstock being input into the pressure chamber, and a selectively movable compression gate associated with the auger feed tube and the at least one feedstock auger screw, wherein the compression gate is positioned between the at least one grinding station and the feedstock input port, wherein the at least one feedstock auger screw is configured to rotate and urge the carbon-based feedstock through the auger feed tube of the feedstock input system, through the at least one grinding station, and through the feedstock input port of the pressure chamber, wherein the compression gate is selectively movable between an open position and a closed position, wherein in the closed position, the carbon-based feedstock is prevented from passing through the compression gate and wherein in the open position, the carbon-based feedstock is urged through the compression gate by the at least one feedstock auger screw to the input port; and a liquid hot mix heat transfer medium positioned within the interior volume of the pressure chamber forming a pool of hot mix transfer medium having an upper surface level, wherein carbon-based feedstock input into the pressure chamber through the feedstock input port is broken into at least one constituent component by the hot mix transfer medium, and wherein at least a gas constituent component can exit the pressure chamber through the at least one gas output port.