Process and system for converting waste material to fuel or synthetic gas feedstock

Abstract

A waste processing system and method is described. The waste processing system may be used to treat any type of waste material that may be decomposed upon the application of energy, wherein recyclable metal and/or a gaseous end product is/are generated which may have commercial or industrial applications. The waste material may be reduced in size and passed to a purge vessel where the oxygen content of the waste material is reduced. The waste material is then heated in a heat exchanger which may be linearly elongated and passed to a conversion chamber where it is treated with H-H-O gas torches. A final gaseous end product is generated which may be used as a fuel source.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A gaseous fuel produced by a process, comprising:
 removing recyclable metal materials from a quantity of waste material;   reducing the dimensions of the waste material;   passing the reduced dimension waste material to a purge chamber;   reducing the quantity of oxygen in the purge chamber;   passing the oxygen free reduced dimension waste material from the purge chamber through a heat exchanger;   heating the oxygen free reduced dimension waste material in the heat exchanger;   passing the heated oxygen free reduced dimension waste material from the heat exchanger to a conversion chamber;   heating the oxygen free reduced dimension waste material in the conversion chamber using at least one H-H-O gas torch to generate at least a gaseous product; and   harnessing the gaseous product.