Combustible waste material is placed into the primary gasification cell through the load access door.
This is done via a loading conveyor.
The preferred design is to have collection vehicles dump their load into a receiving bin leading to a shredder and from there to the conveyor.

The primary cell is a batch feed processor. Once the cell has received the day’s collected waste, the door is closed and the process initiated.
The cell does not have to be full for the system to be activated.

Batch processing makes fewer runs of the system per week possible, when unusually light collection days may make it possible to combine two day’s deliveries into a single run.
This is an option which the operator can control as needed.

The start up is accomplished by a computer key stroke (or optional manual button and lever control) which pre-heats the secondary gas processing unit.
Once that unit reaches its pre-set temperature, the primary gasification cell heater is activated and the process begins.

From 8 to 12 hours later, the combustible waste in the primary cell will have been converted to a gas and the cycle will generally be complete.
With help of the PLC (Process Logic Controller), the operator can evaluate the end of the gasification cycle by observing the change in the oxygen content of the stack gas and the primary cell, and a predictable decline of the primary cell temperature. Once these final parameters are reached, the PLC will indicate to the operator that the cycle is finished, and the system can be emptied.
The system can be reloaded immediately without a “cool down” period.