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It sounds more like a bomb than an incinerator. If you keep the gases inside and raise the heat the pressure will rise steeply. You also need an air or oxygen supply to burn the gases, only adding heat without air is called pyrolyzing.

To create eddy currents in small objects you need a higher frequency than if you have solid metal objects. To build an high frequency high power generator is more complicated than a lower frequency unit.

To make a proper incinerator you need a dwell time for the gases above a certain temperature for a minimum time with oxygen excess.

Göran
 
i first read that at 4am & thought that was a crazy dangerous idea !!

the saying goes "there is no amount of gold worth dying for" :!:
 
Hi

I kind of include in my post a little bit of written reasoning, that your answers actually adds to, I read them as more or less expanding my initial question with some further technicalities.
About the "bomb" part, you have take in concideration that a "Pressure cooker(exaggerated): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...d_by_Georg_Gutbrod,_Stuttgart,_about_1864.jpg".
One option is to design it to be sealed with a mechanical pressure release valve, that only opens if the pressure inside raises beyond a threshold, determined by using some kind of shape that fits in a tiny hole in the lid, with a heavy enough weight to match a certain pressure. I just throwing out some thoughts here.

I am also aware that the winding resistance and number of turns are critical, but the size of the coil and the container in relation would be the first to start with, but speaking from research, the induction coil will actually be the "L" in an RLC-circuit.In such a circuit, the capacitor bank and the induction coil determines the resonant frequency of the circuit, at resonance the current will naturally increase a lot, the trick is actually how the metal container to be the furnace inside the coil are constructed. Because the coil stores electrical energy in it's magnetic field, and when the magnetic field reach the full potential, it will then break down and pass the current to the capacitor who stores the electrical energy in a internal field, the time between this two operations would then be called one cycle, or for the sake of your comment 1Hz speaking in frequency. But the metal-container will act as a 1-winding secondary coil, and it will be coupled with the magnetic field, so when calculating the resonant frequency of the circuit, you will have to make sure that the disturbance and phasing of the circuit is right when the container are in place, and that the current is right, I figure about 900-1100°C max temperature in the iron pot, Because I do not want a melting furnace, only a IC-chip and other-stinky/small-chips-&-components-that-needs-to-be-pulverized-later-for-gold incinerator.

The link I added earlier shows a great example for ideas to making it work. The whole idea is to use a iron pot and a current to generate enough infrared heat to replicate & replace use of open flames and/or gas burners.
The container may not be a lot bigger than a PVC pipe Ø, and could for example have some fire-bricks as lid to hold off the worst fumes as chips warms up and burns.

I may add that the intended design is not meant to be a complicated idea, as all this technicalities may indicate :p
 
your pressure vessel would have to be tested to withstand many times the maximum pressure it could get to and you would probably want your safety valve to be the same diameter as the vessel with no restriction in it.
one thing I have seen a video of is a soup can half filled with water in an induction heater, the user hit the switch and ran for it to get out of the way of the massive geyser that erupted
 
Dude4ever said:
Water obviously have a higher vapor pressure than plastics :lol:
At room temperature, sure. At the boiling point of water too, but at incineration temperature it's close to even. Water and plastic would have the same vapor pressure when your reactor breaks, it's just a question of a minor difference in temperature. The biggest difference is that water isn't flammable but pyrolyzed plastic vapors are.... or in words that a dude would understand. Big kaboom!

This is Not a joke!

Göran
 
Incineration and Pyrolysis is two very different things. Incineration is a thermochemical reaction by heat and oxygen to convert carbon to carbon dioxide. Pyrolysis is a thermochemical reaction to decompose organic material in the absence of oxygen leaving carbon behind.
 

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