Patent ID: 7020980
Filing Date: 2006-04-04
Classification: F26B,Y10S

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: supplying a raw waste stream inclusive of natural fatty acids and/or natural oils or fats; providing a main processor that operates at a level of vacuum; 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; providing the main processor with a throughput of a hot pneumatic carrier for syphoning up and suspending particles of the solid particulate fraction from out of the disintegrating waste stream; providing a vacuum source connected to a vacuum port in the main processor to suction out a pneumatic stream comprising the pneumatic carrier, vapors, and suspension particles; and further comprising a separation process between the vacuum source and the vacuum port of the main processor to separate the pneumatic stream into one component or set of components comprising substantially particulate matter as well as into another component or set of components comprising variously the pneumatic carrier, vapors and perhaps ultra-fine particulate matter.