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- Patent Title: Methods and equipment for hydrothermal processing and disposal of highly toxic substances, waste and metal powders
- Patent Title (中): 水热处理和处置高毒性物质,废物和金属粉末的方法和设备
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Application No.: US14650478Application Date: 2013-12-06
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Publication No.: US09352178B2Publication Date: 2016-05-31
- Inventor: Valeriy Surovtsev
- Applicant: HYDROTHERMA SWISS ECOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGIES SA
- Applicant Address: CH Lausanne
- Assignee: HYDROTHERMA Swiss Ecological Technologies SA
- Current Assignee: HYDROTHERMA Swiss Ecological Technologies SA
- Current Assignee Address: CH Lausanne
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
- Priority: EP12196156 20121207
- International Application: PCT/IB2013/060706 WO 20131206
- International Announcement: WO2014/087385 WO 20140612
- Main IPC: A62D3/20
- IPC: A62D3/20 ; B01J19/24 ; B01J3/00 ; B01J4/00 ; B01J4/02 ; A62D101/02

Abstract:
A method of hydrothermal processing of highly toxic substances, wastes and metal powders, comprises a batch processing cycle of at least following steps i. to viii: i. preparing a batch of highly toxic waste, substances and metal powders for processing; ii. applying precision dozing to the batch to obtain a mixture of the batch with water and at least one additional reagent in preset proportions; iii. feeding the mixture into a reactor; iv. spraying the mixture inside the reactor with a mechanical spray nozzle; v. supplying an additional oxidizing agent inside the reactor; vi. adjusting a temperature inside the reactor to above 374.2° C.; vii. adjusting a pressure inside the reactor to above 21.8 MPa, thereby driving the water into supercritical condition and initiating a supercritical hydrothermal oxidation process; and viii. keeping the mixture in the reactor for a preset amount of time, and at the same time. The method further comprises removing a produced steam and hydrogen mixture from the reactor via a steam-gas unit and droplet separator into a wastewater condenser unit and a gas drainage pipe, and venting suspended solids through a bottom part of the reactor into a solids collector unit. The method then provides the steps of repeating the batch processing cycle after it has terminated; and monitoring and controlling the temperature and pressure inside the reactor via an Automatic Process Control System (APCS) during all steps.
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