Abstract: A down-draft gasification reactor has a solids storage chamber bordered from below by a grate and having an oxidation zone, a product gas collection region disposed beneath the grate, a product gas line for discharging out-gassed product gas from the product gas collection region, a slag-separation device disposed above the grate, and a discharge mechanism downstream of the grate for transporting the separated slag out of the reactor.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 4, 1998
Date of Patent:
September 5, 2000
Assignee:
SEVAR Entsorgungsanlagen GmbH
Inventors:
Walter Kuntschar, Werner Marzluf, Rudolf Porsch, Arno Siegenthaler, Rainer Wennemar
Abstract: Described are a method of drying sewage sludge and an apparatus for carrying out the method, wherein the liquid sewage sludge is converted into a pastry consistency in a predrying means (10), the pastry sewage sludge is then put into the form of particles of relatively large surface area in a shaping means (16), and the particles are thereafter exposed to a stream (52) of drying gas in a drying means (48).