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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7322301 | System and method for processing sewage sludge and other wet organic based feedstocks to generate useful end products A system and method are disclosed for processing sewerage sludge and other organic based feedstocks, in an energy efficient manner that minimizes or eliminates unwanted byproducts, including pathogens, and generates useful environmentally safe products. The sewage s... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7263933 | Incinerator furnace condensers and methods of using A method for processing waste material into fuel or other useful substances without polluting the air comprising the steps of: a. Introducing waste material into a storage chamber which allows the liquid to drain into a tank, ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7198724 | Apparatus for treating fluids with ultrasounds The present invention relates to a fluid processing apparatus for use in an elongate passage (10), the apparatus comprising one or more means for applying ultrasonic energy to fluid (16) within the passage (10) and means for constraining flow of... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7127748 | Incinerating commode An improved incinerating commode for the disposal of human waste through injection of a combustible fluid into the chamber where the waste is incinerated, separation of the urine component from the fecal component of human waste, and use of the urine component mixed... | 10/31/2006 |
| 6871604 | Conversion of waste into highly efficient fuel Solid combustible waste materials are converted into highly efficient fuel by subjecting such materials to size reduction in suitable size-reducing equipment. The last piece of the equipment is a mill which pulverizes the waste materials into fine particles having a... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6729246 | Interlinked synthetic garbage incinerator with a plurality of inlets A garbage incinerator comprises an incinerator body having an elongated incinerating chamber, which forms an angle with a horizontal plane. A plurality of inlets are provided on the incinerator body for feeding burnable construction garbage and house refuse, respect... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6401635 | Liquid carton waste material recycling process and apparatus for recycling liquid carton waste material Process for recycling of liquid carton waste material or other similar waste material having fibrous, metal and plastics materials. The process includes introducing the waste material and a slushing liquid into a slushing apparatus and slushing of the was... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6386124 | Waste treatment system A waste treatment system for solidifying and increasing the speed at which manure would dry. The waste treatment system includes support members; and also includes an elongate tubular member being mounted upon the support members and having an inlet end a... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6308435 | Process and facility for processing municipal waste combustion ash An enclosed drainage facility to dry municipal waste combustion ash has a plurality of spaced elongated channels to drain by gravity, water from piles of ash into a disposal or reclamation pool. The channels are sloping concrete ditches leading to a commo... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6098553 | Arrangement for converting a conventional oil boiler to a boiler with moist, granular and solid fuel An arrangement for converting a conventional oil boiler to a boiler with moist, granular and solid fuel, utilizes a fuel combustion gas dryer connected to the combustion gas line of the boiler, and a solid fuel combustion device to replace the oil burner.... | 08/08/2000 |
| 5853579 | Treatment system A treatment system is provided which can treat solid materials and/or liquid materials. Preferably, a separator initially separates liquid and solid materials, and the solid materials are deposited upon a substrate within a microwave cavity. Liquids remai... | 12/29/1998 |
| 5725762 | Separation treatment system A materials treatment system which initially separates liquid and solid components with a separator. The system can be advantageously utilized for household sewage handling, however various components have other applications. Once the separator separates ... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5630366 | Process for autothermal incineration of sludge and optionally in addition of household refuse Process for autothermal incineration of sludge originating from urban and/or industrial water purification stations and of household refuse, wherein it consists in carrying out a dehydration of the sludge by centrifuging-drying while employing the sensibl... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5447630 | Materials treatment process and apparatus A waste treatment system in which incoming waste is initially separated by a separator into solid and liquid components, without significantly emulsifying the solid components. The separator requires no energy to provide a solid waste component having a v... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5405537 | Process for combusting dewatered sludge waste in a municipal solid waste incinerator This invention relates to an improved process for the coincineration of municipal solid waste and municipal sewage sludge by dewatering the sludge, breaking it up into sufficiently small particles and employing oxygen enrichment of the combustion process.... | 04/11/1995 |
| 5394811 | Process for drying a water-containing fuel in direct contact with a hot granular solid residue Dried fuel is at least partly combusted, gasified or carbonized in the presence of cooled solid residue in a reactor. Hot solid residue, which is at temperatures in the range from 500° to 1200° C., is withdrawn from the reactor and is mixed with water-c... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5372077 | Garbage disposal system A garbage disposal system includes a garbage classifier unit, which consists of a cutting mechanism, a separation water trough, squeezers, and a blower separator, and is controlled to separate plastics and mineral from garbage; a garbage furnace controlle... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5287985 | Container for dewatering or packaging and transportation A container capable of dewatering wet mixtures and for transportation which comprises (1) an external cylindrical container with openings therein having a hanging member in an upper portion thereof, wherein the hanging member can shut the upper portion of... | 02/22/1994 |
| 5078868 | Apparatus for the recovery and destruction of toxins from contaminated soils A method and apparatus for cleansing contaminated soil (11), the apparatus includes an extraction vessel (12) into which contaminated soil (11) is delivered together with a solvent. A slurry is produced which is delivered to a settler (18) which produces ... | 01/07/1992 |
| 4949655 | Process for the utilization of powdered solid waste This invention encompasses a process for the utilization of dried powdered waste as a fuel, in particular, dried powdered aqueous waste. The object of the invention is to eliminate the use of conventional auxiliary fuel to aid in thermal oxidation of wast... | 08/21/1990 |
| 4938155 | Fluidized bed combustion apparatus for generating environmentally-innocent ash A method for disposing by incineration of waste material containing sludge and garbage of various kinds which when combined results in a composite waste material prepared by performing multiple steps in its handling wherein the composite material is first... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4932336 | Method of and apparatus for disposing of wastes from wastepaper recycling To dispose of a dewatered collected product consisting predominantly of cellulosic materials in a solids phase and a residue consisting predominantly of plastics in wastepaper recycling, the collected product is dried to at most 25% weight percent moistur... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4926764 | Sewage sludge treatment system Gaseous discharge from a pelletizing drier used in the treatment of sewage sludge is partially directed back to a combustion chamber that generates an effluent which is fed to the drier. Volumetric requirements of a gas scrubber and an afterburner are red... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4622903 | Sewage screenings disposal system A sewage screenings disposal system where raw screenings are fed to a dewatering press (7) for reducing the moisture content of the screenings, slugs of pressed screenings are conveyed from the dewatering press (7) to a multi-compartment storage carousel ... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4620493 | Sewage sludge dewatering using flowing liquid metals A method and apparatus for reducing the moisture content of a moist sewage sludge having a moisture content of about 50% to 80% and formed of small cellular micro-organism bodies having internally confined water is provided. A hot liquid metal is circulat... | 11/04/1986 |
| 4592291 | Sewage treatment method and apparatus Method and apparatus for treating sewage to reduce total solids content. Involves separating sewage sludge from sewage liquid, dewatering and compressing the sludge, subjecting the sludge to microwave radiation to reduce sludge to ash-like residue, and ad... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4505211 | Method for drying aqueous, solid fuels Method for drying aqueous solid fuels, in which method the fuel is heated indirectly in a dryer by means of a heating medium heated in a boiler plant or the like and in which the steam formed in the dryer serves as a heating and transport medium. Oil or s... | 03/19/1985 |
| 4489665 | Mobile, sorbent-pad disposal system A movable incineration system for the disposal of used sorbent pads utilized in the cleanup of oil or hydrocarbon spills in marine environments. The portable incineration system of the present invention comprises an incinerator, a wringer, an auxiliary po... | 12/25/1984 |
| 4429643 | Apparatus and method for treating sewage sludge Sludge is dried in a dryer and burned in a furnace, the dryer being heated by heat from the furnace using a heat exchanger so that contaminants from furnace hot gas do not pass into the dryer. Gas given off from the dryer is in part mixed with fresh air a... | 02/07/1984 |
| 4426936 | Method and apparatus for disposal of thermoplastic waste in a fluidized bed reactor A fluidized bed reactor suitable for burning polymeric waste material, particularly thermoplastics, has been developed as well as a method of using it. The reactor comprises a chamber for retaining a fluidized bed of refractory particles and burning the p... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4388875 | Evaporating concentrator for sewage sludge An evaporative concentrator for sewage sludge installed between hopper A and drying furnace C; the one set consisting of heating chamber B1 and evaporation chamber B2 having a construction so that the said one set or several sets are... | 06/21/1983 |
| 4378229 | Method for treating sewage to produce a fuel A method is disclosed for treating sewage in which the combustible components of the sewage are separated from the sewage and utilized as a primary fuel. Scum is collected, preferably by skimming, from screened sewage. This scum comprises oils, greases, f... | 03/29/1983 |
| 4311103 | Incineration system for sewage sludge The incineration system consists of a sludge dryer, a cyclone separator unit, an incomplete combustion incinerator, a complete combustion incinerator with a heat exchanger, a heat exchanger and so forth and comprises gas circulation passage involving the ... | 01/19/1982 |
| 4297322 | Equipment for treating and resource recovery from solid waste Equipment and method for treating solid waste in which a non-oxidizing atmosphere is provided through which the shredded solid waste falls freely, unsupported and non-contacted, to prevent fusion of the plastics with each other, with other materials in th... | 10/27/1981 |
| 4291539 | Power generation system The invention resides in an electrical power generation system comprising means for burning solid carbonaceous fuel, such as brown coal, to generate heat energy which is used to convert water to steam, turbine means driven by the said steam for producing ... | 09/29/1981 |
| 4290269 | Process for the efficient conversion of water-containing organic materials as fuels into energy A process is provided for the efficient conversion of water-containing organic materials such as bark, peat and sludge as fuels into energy, including drying the materials to convert them into fuels and then combusting the fuels in order to recover as muc... | 09/22/1981 |
| 4213407 | Flash drying sludge derived fuel process A process for disposing of sewage sludge resulting from municipal type sewage plants, including the production of dry solid fuel which is used in the flash drying and in the deodorizing system. Supplemental fuels are not required. The system is capable of... | 07/22/1980 |
| 4198914 | Installation for treatment of sediments coming from stations for purification of industrial waste water An installation for the treatment of sediment coming a purification station for industrial waste water. The installation consists of a static furnace incinerator into which sediment is transferred by means of an injector. The injector is made up of an elb... | 04/22/1980 |
| 4162656 | Waste disposal by incineration Disclosed is a portable waste disposal system that is designed primarily for use in marine craft, mobile homes, campers or the like. The system comprises a macerator unit for converting excrement to a liquified effluent, and an incinerator unit for incine... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4147114 | Waste treatment system The discharge end portion of a sewage delivery tube is surrounded by the input end portion of a conveyor pipe. A long, flat strip of consumable filter material is inserted through the annular space between them and into the conveyor pipe. Prior to this in... | 04/03/1979 |
