Abstract:
For disposal of waste material including water, volatile components and vitrifiable components, the waste material is heated in a dehydrator to remove the water, heated in a high-temperature dryer to vaporize hydrocarbon liquids, and then fed to the focus point of a primary plasma reactor where plasma arc jets are focused on the surface of a pool of the vitrifiable components. At the focus point the vitrifiable components are melted, and the volatile components are volatized. The melted vitrifiable components are received in a quench chamber where they solidify on a quench roller and are broken into chips and delivered to a receiving area. Heat from the quench chamber is transferred to the dehydrator and high-temperature dryer. The hydrocarbon liquids and volatized components are fed to a secondary plasma reactor where they are disassociated into their elemental components. The effluent from the secondary plasma reactor is scrubbed to remove hydrogen sulfide and halogens, and residual components, together with excess water vapor, are extracted in an absorber and fed back for further processing in the secondary plasma reactor.
Abstract:
Hazardous waste containing organic compound having covalently bound oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur and/or phosphorus is reduced with aluminum to less hazardous form.
Abstract:
A process for treating iron chloride wastes such as those obtained when chlorinating titanium ore is disclosed. The process involves reacting the iron chlorides with limestone in molten CaCl.sub.2.xH.sub.2 O, where x equals 3-6 and separating the resulting iron oxide from the molten CaCl.sub.2.xH.sub.2 O.
Abstract:
1. A WASTE-CONTROL PROCESS FOR THE ULTIMATE DISPOSAL OF AN ORGANIC PESTICIDE RESULTING IN NEGLIGIBLE ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION COMPRISING: FEEDING THE PESTICIDE AND A SOURCE OF OXYGEN INTO A POOL OF A MOLTEN SALT CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY OF AN ALKALI METAL CARBONATE OR MIXTURE OF ALKALI METAL CARBONATES OR A MAJOR PORTION OF AN AKALI METAL CARBONATE AND A MINOR PORTION OF AT LEAST 1 WT. PERCENT OF AN ALKALI METAL SULFATE TO THERMALLY DECOMPOSE AND AT LEAST PARTIALLY OXIDIZE SAID PESTICIDE TO FORM DECOMPOSITION PRODUCT INCLUDING A GASEOUS EFFLUENT, AND THEN VENTING A GASEOUS EFFLUENT PRODUCT CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY ONLY OF GAS SELECTED FROM CARBON DIOXIDE, WATER VAPOR, OXYGEN AND NITROGEN TO THE ATMOSPHERE WHILE RETAINING THE REMAINING DECOMPOSITION PRODUCT OF THE PESTICIDE IN THE MELT.
Abstract:
UNWANTED EXPLOSIVES AND PROPELLANTS ARE DESTROYED IN A SAFE NON-POLLUTING MANNER BY BEING CONTRACTED WITH A HOT MOLTEN SALT CONTAINING AS ESSENTIAL REACTIVE COMPONENT ALKALI METAL CARBONATE OR HYDROXIDE OR MIXTURES THEREOF. SOME OF THE RESULTING DECOMPOSITION PRODUCTS THAT WOULD ORDINARILY BE RELEASED AS ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTANTS REACT WITH OR ARE RETAINED IN THE MELT. ANY COMBUSTIBLE MATTER PRESENT IN THE MELT MAY BE FURTHER REACTED BY USE OF OXIDATIVE MOLTEN SALTS ALONG OR IN COMBINATION WITH OXYGEN ADDED TO THE MELT. FORMED GASEOUS PRODUCTS MAY BE TREATED IN A SECOND REACTION ZONE TO COMPLETE OXIDATION OF ANY COMBUSTIBLE MATTER PRESENT BEFORE DISCHARGE OF THE GASES TO THE ATMOSPHERE. THE REACTIVE COMPONENT OF THE TREATED MELT MAY BE REGENERATED, OR THE MELT MAY BE DISPOSED OF, PREFERABLY BY REACTION WITH LIME IN AN AQUEOUS OR MOLTEN MEDIUM TO FORM A WATER-INSOLUBLE CALCIUM SALT RESIDUE. PARTICULARLY EFFECTIVE AND PREFERRED REACTED MOLTEN SALTS ARE THE NAOH-KOH AND LI2CO2-NA2CO2-K2CO2 EUTECTIC MIXTURES.
Abstract:
A device for destroying a chemical agent is described. The device includes a self-contained, portable pressure vessel which is dimensioned to accommodate an artillery shell, and a heat-generating component within the pressure vessel. The heat-generating component is capable of providing a pyrolytic, exothermic reaction capable of destroying the chemical agent and artillery shell. A process for destroying a chemical agent which includes placing a chemical artillery shell within the pressure vessel, securing the pressure vessel closed, and igniting the heat-generating component inside the pressure vessel to generate a pyrolytic, exothermic reaction capable of destroying the chemical agent and artillery shell is also described.
Abstract:
There are disclosed processes for destructing a toxic chemical including the steps of mixing the toxic chemical with a liquid phase formed by an aqueous mixture of water and an ionic liquid or molten salt which is miscible with water, the ionic liquid or molten salt comprising a tertiary amine group or quaternary ammonium group; and contacting the toxic chemical in the liquid phase with the ionic liquid or molten salt so as to decompose the toxic chemical.
Abstract:
A method of destructing a toxic chemical, comprising the steps of mixing said toxic chemical with a liquid phase formed by an aqueous mixture of water and an ionic liquid or molten salt which is miscible with water, said ionic liquid or molten salt comprising a tertiary amine group or quaternary ammonium group; and contacting said toxic chemical in said liquid phase with said ionic liquid or molten salt so as to decompose said toxic chemical. The ionic liquid or molten salt comprises a tertiary amine group or quaternary ammonium group. The dispersion or solution further contains at least one oxidizing agent and a donor of hydrogen bonds. Decontamination of contaminated surfaces and decomposition of toxic substances are achieved by using environmentally friendly, non-toxic solvents and reactants which yields reaction products which are substantially non-harmful or even non-toxic.
Abstract:
The recirculation combustion system is installed in the exhaust stream of a combustion chamber to increase exhaust cleanliness and thermal efficiency. The system directs hot exhaust gases through a filtering system to remove the larger particulate materials and pollutants, and then return the gas back to the combustion chamber. This system includes a baghouse unit, a molten metal reactor system with automatic feed and waste removal, a separator system, an active exhaust stack and recirculation line control system, and an automatic oxygen and recirculation gas mixing system.
Abstract:
In a method for the treatment of halogen containing waste materials wherein valuable materials and/or energy can be recuperated without the generation of additional halogenated waste materials, the halogen containing waste materials are mixed with a molten substituted or non-substituted polyolefin in an inert gas atmosphere, whereby, upon melting, hydrogen halogenides are formed and the hydrogen halogenides are separated from the mixture.