Patent ID: 8382957

Claim:
A material recovery system, including: a housing adapted to receive an organic source in a reduction zone, the housing including an inert gas inlet and a reduction outlet in operative communication with the reduction zone; wherein the inert gas inlet is configured to permit purging of the reduction zone and maintaining of a positive pressure therein, and wherein the reduction outlet is configured to exhaust an initial gaseous content of the reduction zone during the purging, and to exhaust at least some of an inert gas during the maintaining of the positive pressure; an electromagnetic wave generator in operative communication with the housing and adapted to apply electromagnetic wave energy to the reduction zone via a bifurcated waveguide assembly to reduce the organic source in the reduction zone to at least one gaseous organic decomposition product, the at least one gaseous organic decomposition product being exhausted with the inert gas via the reduction outlet during the maintaining of the positive pressure; and wherein the reduction zone is configured such that the organic source is stationary in the reduction zone during application of the electromagnetic wave energy.