Patent ID: 7390380

Claim:
A method of processing wastewater comprising: providing a wastewater processing apparatus, the wastewater processing apparatus comprising: a wastewater holding tank; a flash chamber having an upper section and a bottom section; a filtering device at the upper section of the flash chamber; a collection tank connected to the upper section of the flash chamber; a vacuum pump connected to the upper section of the flash chamber; a heat absorbing coil within the bottom section of the flash chamber; a condenser connected to the flash chamber; a distillate tank operably connected to the condenser; a heat exchanger; an orifice connecting the heat exchanger to the flash chamber; and a waste storage tank operably connected to the flash chamber at the lower section thereof; drawing wastewater from the wastewater holding tank; feeding the wastewater through the heat absorbing coil within the bottom section of the flash chamber; feeding the wastewater from the heat absorbing coil of the condenser; feeding the wastewater from the condenser to the heat exchanger; heating the wastewater in the heat exchanger; feeding the heated wastewater through an entry office within the flash chamber for conversion into a vapor portion during a single evaporation stage and a contaminate portion, wherein the vapor portion rises to the upper section of the flash chamber, and the contaminate portion settles in the bottom section of the flash chamber; withdrawing the contaminate portion from the bottom section of the flash chamber; and feeding said contaminate portion to the waste storage tank.