Patent ID: 7571687

Claim:
A destruction apparatus for use with an oil feedstock contaminated with a toxic organic pollutant material comprising a housing, a first heating chamber defined within said housing for heating said feedstock in order in use to generate a toxic fluid, a first burner in said first heating chamber for burning off the oil used as a first burner fuel, said first heating chamber having a first heating chamber top wall, a first heating chamber bottom wall, and two first heating chamber sidewalls and two end walls, said apparatus further comprising: a second heating chamber for heating said toxic fluid to destroy toxic elements therein, a hollow perforate transition cylinder mounted for rotation between said first heating chamber and said second heating chamber and varying a rate of said toxic fluid passing therethrough from said first heating chamber to said second heating chamber, by varying the speed of the rotation of said transition cylinder said cylinder being in fluid communication with said first heating chamber to receive said toxic fluid therefrom, said cylinder containing an amount of a discrete particulate absorbent and/or adsorbent material, a second burner in the second heating chamber heating the toxic fluid to substantially convert it into an inert fluid, which inert fluid exiting from the second heating chamber, wherein the first burner and transition cylinder are located so as to combust the oil outside of said transition cylinder.