Patent ID: 6843058

Claim:
A method for generating gypsum and zinc sulfide from a fuel gas generator comprising a. obtaining a generator, wherein the generator comprises: i. a vessel having a front side, a back side, bottom side, a first side, a second side, a third side, and a feed ramp; ii. a feed system with a sealable opening disposed in the front for supplying waste to the vessel; iii. a moveable non-transferred torch disposed in at least one side of said vessel for contacting said waste creating molten material; iv. a moveable transferred torch for contacting the molten material wherein the transferred torch is disposed in at least one side of said vessel; v. at least one steam injector disposed in at least one side of said vessel; vi. at least one molten material outlet disposed in the back of said vessel; vii. at least one gas outlet disposed in the third side of the vessel for transferring gas from the vessel to a dry scrubber wherein said dry scrubber further has a dry scrubber outlet; viii. a wet scrubber connected to the dry scrubber outlet for receiving gas from the dry scrubber and further scrubbing said gas and passing said gas to a wet scrubber outlet and wherein said method uses an independent power source for start up said generator, b. starting up the generator by a method comprising: i. collecting steel; ii. heating the vessel to 2000 degrees Fahrenheit with electricity from an independent power source; iii. loading one ton of steel into the heated vessel; iv. melting the loaded steel to a molten state in the vessel by first using a non-transferred torch to cut and melt and then a second transferred torch to maintain the liquid state of the steel creating a molten metal pool; v. adding an additional 4 tons of steel to the heated vessel creating a molten metal pool with a minimum operating depth; and vi. raising the heated vessel temperature to an operating temperature of at least 2000 degrees Centigrade; c. operating the generator by a method comprising: i. acquiring EPA category MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE, HAZARDOUS WASTE and/or SPECIAL WASTE to load into the vessel; ii. loading said waste into the vessel at a defined rate per hour; iii. transforming the waste into molten material with the nontransferred torch by cutting and heating said waste; iv. maintaining the molten material status of the waste by further melting any non-melted waste into a molten status with the transferred torch; and v. flowing gypsum and zinc sulfide from the vessel to collection containers.