Patent ID: 9557056
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: B01F,B02C,B08B,B09B,B60P,B65G,F23G

Claim:
1. A method for removing waste from a refinery ground tank and disposing of the waste through burning, the method comprising: at a refinery, receiving in a mobile container a load of solid refinery waste removed from a ground tank, wherein after removal of the solids refinery waste from the ground tank, and before receipt in the mobile container, sizes of removed solids are reduced by at least one of chopping, cutting, mashing, fragmenting, squeezing, turning, and rolling; transporting the reduced size solids in the mobile container to a burning facility at which at least one diluent added to a head space between a top of the load of reduced-size solids and a top of the mobile container is mixed with the reduced-size solids to cause a flowable mixture of the at least one diluent and the reduced-size solids in the container; and evacuating the flowable mixture from the container for burning at the burning facility; wherein the container is a road-worthy vessel configured to transport liquids; and wherein the reduction of sizes of removed solids is accomplished using at least one blade associated with a hopper and a conveyor for conveying the reduced-size solid waste to the road-worthy vessel configured to transport liquids.