Patent ID: 7326278

Claim:
A decontamination system, comprising: an adsorption/desorption subsystem configured to receive contaminated gaseous solution and to remove substantially all of the contaminants from the contaminated gaseous solution during an adsorption cycle, the adsorption/desorption subsystem compriing first and second adsorption/desorption modules operable in alternating adsorption and desorption cycles, wherein one module is configured to receive contaminated gaseous solution and remove substantially all of the contaminants from the contaminated gaseous solution during its adsorption cycle while the other module is configured to purge captured contaminants during its desorption cycle; a dry-heat heat source configured to heat contaminants adsorbed in the adsorption/desorption subsystem to remove the contaminants therefrom during a desorption cycle by heating the contaminants to a gaseous state to create a vapor pressure in the adsorption/desorption subsystem sufficient to drive out the gaseous contaminants as a substantially pure volume; a condenser configured to receive the substantially pure volume of gaseous contaminants driven out of the adsorption/desorption subsystem by the vapor pressure and to condense the substantially pure volume of gaseous contaminants into a substantially pure condensate of the contaminants for recovery as a liquid free product; and an evacuator configured to drive potentially flammable gas compositions from the module operating in a desorption cycle back into the system such that potentially flammable gas compositions are purged from the module operating in the desorption cycle at the beginning of the desorption cycle.