US-20260124653-A1 - Industrial Digestive System

Abstract

The “Industrial Digestive System” encapsulates a novel paradigm in waste management and resource recovery, bridging the gap between sophisticated computational intelligence and industrial automation. The hardware component replicates the natural digestive system's efficiency in processing a diverse range of inputs, including municipal and industrial waste, transforming them into valuable outputs like biofuels, chemicals, and advanced composite/conglomerate materials. This process is achieved through a series of mechanized operations. Complementing the hardware, the software facet of the invention is rooted in advanced machine learning and optimization algorithms that optimize multivariable functions for the most efficient conversion of input to resources, orchestrating the transformation from varied waste streams, elements, and molecules into solid, liquid, and gaseous outputs. The result is an automated, intelligent manufacturing machine that enhances product quality and operational efficacy. “The Industrial Digestive System” can be seen as a new branch of cybernetics, a cyber-physical system inspired by nature.

Inventors

• Amedeo Scaramella

Dates

Publication Date

20260507

Application Date

20251023

Claims (20)

1. 1 . An industrial waste digestion system comprising: a material preparation apparatus configured to transform industrial waste material in a solid phase to industrial waste material in a semi-solid phase; a material reduction apparatus coupled to the material preparation apparatus and configured to transform the industrial waste material in the semi-solid phase into a separation-ready industrial waste material in the semi-solid phase; and a first phase separation apparatus coupled to the material reduction apparatus and configured to separate the separation-ready industrial waste material into at least one of: a first solid material component and a first gas material component.
2. 2 . The industrial waste digestion system of claim 1 wherein the material preparation apparatus includes at least one of: a grinder, a shredder and a separator.
3. 3 . The industrial waste digestion system of claim 1 wherein the first gas material component is characterized by first gas material properties, and the system further comprises: a gas material rendering apparatus configured to render the first gas material component into a gas material characterized by second gas material properties, and wherein the first gas material properties differ from the second gas material properties.
4. 4 . The industrial waste digestion system of claim 1 wherein the first phase separation apparatus includes a magnet configured to magnetically separate the separation-ready industrial waste material.
5. 5 . The industrial waste digestion system of claim 1 wherein the material reduction apparatus includes at least one device selected from the group consisting of: depolymerization reactor, hydrolysis reactor, and fermentation reactor.
6. 6 . The industrial waste digestion system of claim 1 further comprising a solid component drying chamber configured to receive at least a portion of the first solid material component from the first phase separation apparatus and to substantially completely dry the first solid material component.
7. 7 . The industrial waste digestion system of claim 6 wherein the solid component drying chamber comprises an airtight chamber and includes a system of concave and convex lenses configured to substantially completely dry the first solid material component.
8. 8 . An industrial waste digestion method comprising: transforming industrial waste material in a solid phase to industrial waste material in a semi-solid phase; reducing the industrial waste material in the semi-solid phase into a separation-ready industrial waste material in the semi-solid phase; and separating the separation-ready industrial waste material into a first solid material component and a first gas material component.
9. 9 . The method of claim 8 further comprising processing the industrial waste material in the solid phase by at least one of: chopping, shredding and separating.
10. 10 . The method of claim 9 wherein the first gas material component is characterized by first gas material properties, and the method further comprises: rendering the first gas material component into a gas material defined by second gas material properties, and wherein the first gas material properties differ from the second gas material properties.
11. 11 . The method of claim 8 further comprising magnetically separating the separation-ready industrial waste material.
12. 12 . The method of claim 8 wherein the reducing is performed to include at least one of: depolymerizing, hydrolyzing and fermenting.
13. 13 . The method of claim 8 further comprising: receiving at least a portion of the first solid material component from a phase separation apparatus; and substantially completely drying the first solid material component.
14. 14 . The method of claim 13 further comprising: sealing the first solid material component in an airtight chamber; and drying the first solid material component using a system of concave and convex lenses.
15. 15 . A composition of matter comprising: a matrix material; particle reinforcements; and at least one hazardous material filler.
16. 16 . The composition of claim 15 wherein: the particle reinforcements comprise fibers selected from the group consisting of: glass fibers, metallic fibers, textile fibers and carbon fibers.
17. 17 . The composition of claim 16 further comprising a filler selected from the group consisting of: glass, metal, and concrete.
18. 18 . The composition of claim 15 wherein the particle reinforcements comprise calcium (Ca), iron (Fe), silicon (Si), carbon (C), hydrogen (H) and oxygen (O).
19. 19 . The composition of claim 18 wherein the particle reinforcements constitute between about 40% and about 60% by weight of the composition.
20. 20 . The composition of claim 15 produced by a process comprising: transforming industrial waste material in a solid phase to industrial waste material in a semi-solid phase; transforming the industrial waste material in the semi-solid phase into a separation-ready industrial waste material in the semi-solid phase; and separating the separation-ready industrial waste material into a first solid material component and a first gas material component.

Description

HARDWARE: FIELD OF THE INVENTION The invention disclosed herein relates to biomass & miscellaneous waste treatment, specifically, organic, paper and uncategorized & miscellaneous waste and generally heterogeneous or homogeneous materials. Inter alia process for transforming considerably percentage of biomass with other uncategorized industrial and/or municipal waste in different output: biogas, biofuel, chemicals substances, polyesters and a conglomerate material; commercially available in forms of products. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The macroeconomic trends for the coming years will essentially concern the ecological sustainability of processes, the recycling of materials, the use of renewable and environmentally sustainable energy sources, as well as an eco-friendly approach to major industrial processes. The circular economy is undoubtedly an essential reality to ensure sustainable and economically profitable material and production processes for the present and to ensure a different sensitivity to large industrial productions for the future. The idea of reusing waste materials and generic waste, especially biomass but also generic industrial and/or municipal waste products, is derived from quantitative and qualitative analysis. The U.S. Environmental protection agency reported that in 2012 Americans generated about 251 million tons of trash and recycled and composted 87 million tons of this material, equivalent to a 34.5 percent recycling rate. About 29 million tons of trash, the 12%, is combusted for energy recovery. The remaining part of waste material, quantified in 135 million tons, is destined to deposit for years in landfills, very often in nature, representing a significant problem for the ecosystems of the entire globe, including the marine ones. The production of greenhouse gases such as methane mainly makes landfill disposal an even more urgent issue. It is of fundamental importance, therefore, the elaboration of an industrial process that recovers the waste materials obtaining energy, in the form of biogas and biofuel, with a combination of processes like depolymerization, hydrolysis and fermentation. These latter are capable of transforming biomass and other materials and bringing it back into the market. At the same time, the process must be sustainable and economically profitable. The idea of creating a digestive system similar to humans or animals is derived from the concept that in nature, everything is reused countless times, creating a perfect circle of life and support for other species and the ecosystem. Numerous processes and techniques aimed at obtaining solutions to this problem and inventors have followed one another during the present millennium, and solutions to the problem of landfills and the recycling of waste material have been developed in recent years. It is essential to mention, for example, solutions with particular attention to the use of hydrolysis and fermentation processes suitable for waste materials and rubbish, solutions for the extraction of biogas and biofuels from waste material, solutions regarding methods and equipment for the processing of waste materials, solutions concerning the processing of resins and thermoplastic materials and the production of reusable products. U.S. Pat. No. 8,877,992 describe a method for conversion of waste and other organic feedstock into sustainable energy, feed, fertilizer, and other useful products using water, heat, and pressure. The invention provides methods and apparatus that handle mixed streams of various feedstocks like agricultural waste, biological waste, municipal solid waste, municipal sewage sludge, shredder residue to yield gas, specialty chemicals, carbon solids, etc. Despite the large number of organic substances to be handled, U.S. Pat. No. 8,877,992 does not provide a combination of useful processes in order to obtain high-performance products such as fermentation or mixing of solid materials with mechanical forces. Moreover, this invention is difficult to scale due to the large number of separation steps of solid and organic liquid substances in the process. U.S. Pat. No. 9,914,256, who is related with U.S. Pat. No. 8,202,918 describe a method and system for processing waste materials and for manufacturing composite materials. The heterogeneous waste, including various types of waste such as plastic etc., are heated to melt at least a portion of the said plastic component and reduce a volume of said heterogeneous waste, and then mixed until at least some pieces are encapsulated by the melted plastic component, notwithstanding the large number of heterogeneous substances to be handled such organic and paper materials, and in general MSW, U.S. Pat. No. 9,914,256 does not provide a combination of useful processes in order to obtain high-performance products such as fermentation, pyrolysis, hydrolysis and separation between solid and liquid, which is notable in order to obtain optimum high-value energy products