Editors: | Kongoli F, Buhl A, Turna T, Mauntz M, Williams W, Rubinstein J, Fuhr PL, Morales-Rodriguez M |
Publisher: | Flogen Star OUTREACH |
Publication Year: | 2017 |
Pages: | 306 pages |
ISBN: | 978-1-987820-63-8 |
ISSN: | 2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series) |
There exists in the world a large number of various types of liquid combustible wastes that are concentrated, and among which are spent organic solvents and various combustible-lubricating materials. When they are stored for a long time or improperly destroyed, very dangerous substances form from an ecological point of view.
A new method of combustion/conversion of liquid combustible wastes is proposed in the filtration mode, when one of the reagents (liquid fuel or oxidizer gas) is supplied from the end of the reactor filled with a porous incombustible backfill (inert) and the other into the middle part. In this case, the inert, charged to the upper part of the reactor at room temperature, is heated in counter-current combustion products. At discharging of inert from the lower part of the reactor (and the equal volume is simultaneously added to the upper part, so that the bed in the reactor is kept constant), the inert heated in the upper part enters the lower part, where it gives heat to the gaseous reagent supplied from below.
Thus, the inert is first discharged from the reactor in the cool condition, and the gaseous reactant is then supplied to the reaction zone at a high temperature. This procedure makes it possible to carry out the reaction with heat recovery, when the physical heat of the gaseous products is given off during the heat exchange of the porous material, and it heats the reactant supplied from the end of the reactor.