Abstract: An apparatus for removing carbon dioxide from a body of air by using a regenerative solid amine material arranged in beds 14(A-D) is disclosed. Air is directed through a first bed to adsorb the carbon dioxide therefrom. Steam is impelled by a compressor (24) into the first bed to desorb that bed, the steam forming a condensate on that bed. The compressor then creates a vacuum in the first bed which vaporizes the condensate therein, dewatering the first bed so that it may be reused to adsorb carbon dioxide. The compressor impels the vaporized condensate into a second bed to desorb the adsorbed carbon dioxide in the second bed.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for removing carbon dioxide from a body of air by using a regenerative solid amine material arranged in beds 14(A-D) is disclosed. Air is directed through a first bed to adsorb the carbon dioxide theefrom. Steam is impelled by a compressor (24) into the first bed to desorb that bed, the steam forming a condensate on that bed. The compressor then creates a vacuum in the first bed which vaporizes the condensate therein, dewatering the first bed so that it may be reused to adsorb carbon dioxide. The compressor impels the vaporized condensate into a second bed to desorb the adsorbed carbon dioxide in the second bed.

Abstract: The air entering the reactor in a pyrolysis system is preheated by burning a part of the process gas from the reactor in the entering air, thereby maintaining an inlet temperature to prevent solidifying of the slag in the furnace, to maintain the pyrolytic reaction and to reduce the quantity of free oxygen in the entering air.