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Proposal: Development of a Laboratory-Scale Furnace to Demonstrate the Feasibility of the Patented TCM-MSW Process
To validate the patented Thermochemical Method for processing Municipal Solid Waste (US Patent 8,197,565), we propose building a compact laboratory-scale furnace. This small-scale system would simulate the high-temperature and high-pressure conditions of the full-scale TCM-MSW process. The purpose is to demonstrate the method’s technical viability and potential for generating zero-carbon fuel, electricity, and valuable solid byproducts.
While the full TCM-MSW system would require approximately $50 million to implement, and a scaled-down pilot plant could be built for around $17 million by modifying a commercial blast furnace, both options present significant investment hurdles without first proving the technology's feasibility. The proposed laboratory model, costing around $1 million, offers a much more affordable and practical solution to de-risk the technology and attract further investment.
What is a SSF?
The designed small-scale furnace (SSF) is a vertical shaft-type reactor that operates without access to air out of atmosphere and hot blast. Allothermal heating of the reaction’s limited space occurs due to superheated water vapor. Our important tasks:
· Creation of high temperature vapor blast is a most difficult part of the TCM technology. It does not have yet a final engineering solution for our SSF and many other thermochemical technologies
· Exhaust gas analysis for different operating modes in order to optimize the composition of syngas to a high-quality fuel.
· Ability to monitor the conditions of all working parts of the unit.
· Choice of heat-resistant materials for the SSF construction.
· Comparisons of different methods of heating, different design and technological solutions for creating the required high temperature process.
