Tire Vaporizer and Sewage to Electricity Unit Description

Creative Energy Systems of Ontario Recycling of New York presents a new technology that if implemented would clean up tires and sewage and generate low cost electricity and provide clean irrigation water in the process, with no emissions or leaching to the environment. Please note the sketches [one | two] of the proposed technology which gives details of the elements of the system.

The technique combines several existing technologies in a way that has never been done before. St. George, Utah; Ephraim, Utah; and Rochester, NY are currently gearing to implement the new system.

This combined system will take tires and dry sewage in a primary burner at approximately 400 degrees Fahrenheit, creating a vapor that is then passed into a secondary, 1400-degree pre-heated chamber, which would ignite the vapor, burning it at 3,000 to 3,500 degrees. This high temperature then instantly vaporizes additional dry sewage in a third stage jet engine like combustor. The emerging energy would then be combined with water, which would instantly turn to steam, cooling the outflow as well as adding addition thrust that would then be passed through the turbines to generate electricity. Medical and industrial waste could possibly be inserted along with the sewage in the tertiary burner, after additional refinement of the system. Dry sewage used for the generation of low cost electricity has a BTU output near that of coal.

Prior to this procedure, raw sewage is run through a new vortex process that results in 98 percent of the water being removed. The extracted water would be sold for irrigation or processed further for culinary use. Inserting this process prior to the a sewage microfiltration or electronic purification system could then pass the purified water into the culinary system. The use of this system prior to the purification system could extend the life of the microfiltration system many-fold, reduce the need for chlorination, and eliminate the need for additional evaporation ponds.

The Joint Venture Project would then sell the water and generated electricity to the municipality at a rate of between 4-5 cents per kilowatt.

The system was demonstrated by Creative Energy Systems in Boise Idaho for one year, using a smaller-scale Tire-Vaporization and Vapor Burning process [see photos of dismantled unit]. They did not run the outflow through a jet turbine or frequency resin filters, but exhausted it through a stack, which an EPA-approved engineer measured at 10% of their emission standards, because the burning process is so efficient.

The addition of the turbine generators and the frequency resin filters are steps that have not yet been implemented in this particular application; but the technology for those portions are already in use elsewhere. It is just a matter of now combining these systems with the Vaporization and Vapor Burning in a closed loop system which has no stack or emissions to the environment.

Welton Myers and Sterling D. Allan

See also

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• Main Waste-to-Energy index