Continuous Feeding of the Cracking Reactors

The head of the piston is equipped with hollow points, of a trocar type, parallel to the axis of the feeding tube and intended to pierce and to tear the garbage in order to facilitate at the time of compression the evacuation of the maximum possible air and water that it may contain. This water and air is evacuated through perforations in the anterior part of the feeding tube, as well as through the hollow points of the piston. 

The feeding tube with a length of 2-4 m, depending on its diameter, opens into a closed reactor where the wastes are heated up to approximately 360-380°C, at which temperature they are transformed into polyolefin wax after being cracked. 

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