Patent ID: 7140122
Filing Date: 2006-11-28
Classification: F26B

Abstract:
1. A method for treating a waste stream for reduction in part to a solid particulate fraction that is suitable for bulk freighting to remote and widely distributed destinations, comprising the steps of: providing a main processor that operates at a level of vacuum with a pneumatic-carrier admission port, a spaced-away pneumatic-carrier syphon port, and a drain; providing the main processor with a through-current of a hot pneumatic carrier admitted in through the admission port and syphoned out the syphon port; supplying a raw waste stream inclusive of natural fatty acids and/or natural oils or fats; at a relatively elevated pressure, pre-heating the waste stream in order to elevate the mean bulk temperature to above what corresponds to a boiling temperature at the main processor's vacuum level for one of the natural fatty acids and/or natural oils or fats without boiling said one away; introducing the pre-heated waste stream into the main processor whereby a fractional percentage of said one of natural fatty acid and/or natural oil or fat flashes into vapor, this presumptively promoting the waste stream for disintegrating into a solid particulate fraction suitable for bulk freighting; suspending in the current of the hot pneumatic carrier suspension particles of the solid particulate fraction from out of the disintegrating waste stream and carrying such out the syphon port; and draining non-suspending residuals out the drain.