This invention relates to systems, apparatus and methods of operating a
wet combustion engine and apparatus therefore, capable of biologically
burning fuels within a wet combustion chamber within a bioproactor
system, including but not limited to, organic carbon containing materials
especially biological, hazardous or toxic waste contaminants, in an
environmentally sensitive manner. An integrated computer control system
that, proactively and pre-emptively, uses feedback from bio-sensors, to
monitor, record and control applicable components of the bio-system, to
optimize, replenish, and sustain exponential growth of selected
life-forms, including but not limited to microbes such as bacteria. In
the intake cycle, a suitably prepared fuel mixture is metered into the
wet combustion diffusion separation membrane chamber located within the
life-support chamber of the bioproactor. In the combustion cycle,
diffusion and combustion rates are monitored and timed. In the exhaust
cycle, products of combustion, including water and incomplete combustion
by-products both organic and inorganic, are removed. The above cycles may
be repeated sequentially. The subsequent accumulation of all of the
exhaust cycle's products of combustion may be collected, stored,
classified, separated, recycled or discharged. Some of the potential
energy released during the combustion cycle's reaction directly results
in the conversion of wastes, the generation of gases and, in the case of
organic carbon fuels, the generation of water. Other uses of the kinetic
and potential energy released by this engine include, but are not limited
to the, mechanical movements of actuators, and heat transfer to heat
exchangers.