Plastic2Oil Inc (PTOI)

[Florinda]

"Come to think of it, if the P3 pet-coke removal system works well, it could just be a matter of placing catch barrels at the third half-kiln more frequently to receive the output. How Kool would THAT simple solution be?!"--Steelyeye

In John's ASME paper he says, speaking about removing petcoke residues, that:

"This will be done using a screw similar to the feeder but located at the end of the process" (p. 6).

By "screw" he means a big auger-like drill bit. I strongly suspect that the speed at which this "screw" turns, like the drum of a cement truck, can be throttled up or down to keep it in sync with the size load of plastic being fed into the machine. So, yes, I suspect all that will be needed to accommodate greater volumes of petcoke residue will be more barrels to catch it. Any drill you buy these days is variable speed. So if the petcoke screw is not hooked up to a variable speed control, I doubt it would take too much to make that amendment. But given John's propensity towards efficiency, and given that he's already experienced the need to operate the processor at different feed rates, I suspect he saw the need for being able to vary the speed of the screw and that feature is already in place.