Solid and Black Waste Mitigation System and Process

Abstract

A system for waste processing includes a feeder for receiving a waste stream of carbonaceous materials, multiple independently controllable augers, a reactor and an incinerator. The reactor receives a waste stream from the feeder and using a controllable heating element assembly converts the carbonaceous materials in the waste stream to syngas. The incinerator uses the syngas from the reactor to incinerate separately received black water waste from a storage tank.

1 . A modular waste processing system comprising:
 a first self-contained waste pre-processing system for receiving heterogeneous carbonaceous waste of varying size and composition and processing to form a homogeneous single stream of carbonaceous waste;   a second self-contained waste processing system for receiving the single stream of homogenous carbonaceous waste from the first self-contained waste pre-processing system via a first conduit and for processing the single stream of homogenous carbonaceous waste to a syngas and ash; and   a third self-contained waste producing system for receiving and storing black water waste therein and for providing the black water waste to the second self-contained waste processing system via a second conduit,   wherein the second self-contained waste processing system incinerates the black water waste from the third self-contained waste producing system using the syngas produced therein as fuel.   
     
     
         2 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the first conduit is a flexible auger. 
     
     
         3 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein each of the first, second and third self-contained systems are contained in a TRICON, BICON or a combination thereof. 
     
     
         4 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the second self-contained waste processing system includes a feeder for receiving the single stream of homogeneous carbonaceous waste from the first conduit, the feeder including a first controllable auger for directing the single stream;
 a reactor for receiving the directed single stream from the feeder, the reactor including a reactor tube, second controllable auger, and a first heating element assembly for converting the carbonaceous waste to syngas and ash; and   an incinerator for receiving the syngas from the reactor and for receiving the black water waste from the second conduit, wherein the incinerator includes at least one burner fueled by the syngas for incinerating the received black water waste.   
     
     
         5 . The system of  claim 4 , wherein the first controllable auger is plug forming and condenses the carbonaceous materials as it directs them to the reactor. 
     
     
         6 . The system of  claim 4 , wherein the incinerator is an incineration toilet. 
     
     
         7 . The system of  claim 4 , wherein the incinerator includes multi-fuel burners. 
     
     
         8 . The system of  claim 7 , wherein the second self-contained waste processing system further includes a diesel fuel source and the multi-fuel burners may be fueled by syngas and diesel. 
     
     
         9 . The system of  claim 4 , wherein the syngas is directed to the incinerator via a high temperature gas blower. 
     
     
         10 . The system of  claim 4 , wherein a speed of the first controllable auger and the second controllable auger are independently controllable. 
     
     
         11 . The system of  claim 4 , further comprising a second heating element assembly, wherein the first and second heating element assemblies are separately controllable. 
     
     
         12 . The system of  claim 4 , wherein the first heating element assembly creates multiple heating zones which are immediately adjacent to one another along a periphery of the reactor tube. 
     
     
         13 . The system of  claim 4 , wherein the first heating element assembly creates multiple heating zones which are spaced a distance apart from one another along a periphery of the reactor tube. 
     
     
         14 . The system of  claim 4 , wherein the feeder includes at least one valve at an input thereto. 
     
     
         15 . The system of  claim 14 , wherein the at least one valve is a double rotary star lock valve. 
     
     
         16 . The system of  claim 4 , wherein the reactor tube is comprised of multiple reactor tubes. 
     
     
         17 . The system of  claim 16 , wherein the multiple reactor tubes are connected in a stacked arrangement. 
     
     
         18 . The system of  claim 4 , wherein at least one of the first controllable auger and the second controllable auger is a dual auger. 
     
     
         19 . The system of  claim 4 , further comprising an ash collector bin for receiving the produced ash therein. 
     
     
         20 . The system of  claim 19 , wherein the ash collection bin is removable during continuous waste processing.