Patent ID: 6634834
Filing Date: 2003-10-21
Classification: B01D,B65G,C01B,Y10S

Abstract:
Apparatus which hydraulically transports a mixture of sulfur pellets, sulfur fines and coarse impurities with the removal of sulfur, which comprises the combination of:a) a first pump for pumping water from a water supply tank into a supply of said mixture as a jet stream to produce a water slurry containing said sulfur pellets and sulfur fines, b) a second pump for pumping the water slurry upward to a series of screens, c) a series of screens to separate from said water slurry, large lumps, coarse impurities, and a sulfur fines slurry, to yield the desired sulfur pellet slurry, d) a dewatering disk to remove substantially all the remaining water from the sulfur pellet slurry, e) a hydrocyclone to separate substantially all the water from the sulfur fines slurry, f) a first tank for the recovery of said sulfur fines slurry, g) a third pump for pumping the sulfur fines slurry to said hydrocyclone, and h) a second tank for recovery of recycled water.