The InduGraph is an inductively heated carbon reactor with continuous gas current and parallel liquid flow of metal and slag through a bulk graphite bed.
Excellent electrical and thermal conductivity of graphite enable very high temperatures with a uniform temperature distribution and thereby no internal circuits.
ASR is charged directly on the heated graphite and gasifies at 3000°F. Due to the high process temperature and the reducing atmosphere possibly contained dioxins, furans and PCBs are cracked immediately. Also tar gets completely cracked and gasifies. Generated pyrolysis coke gasifies by addition of water vapor and/or oxygen. Possibly contained sulfur will be dissolved as calcium sulfide in the basic adjusted slag. Metals and slag components liquefy and can be tapped separately. The generated contaminated fuel gas is sucked into the off gas treatment where it gets cleaned. Because of the injected water vapor and oxygen as gasification medium the clean fuel gas is not thinned by air and is free of any nitrogen oxide (NOx).
Besides the possibility of a green disposal of the residues and the generation of the fuel gas, the generation of a hydraulic pozzolanic active cement component and a metallurgical usable metal is realized in the process.