Solid material comminution or disintegration – Processes – With application of fluid or lubricant material
Patent
1989-03-09
1990-12-04
Rosenbaum, Mark
Solid material comminution or disintegration
Processes
With application of fluid or lubricant material
241 21, 241 23, 241 24, 241 26, 241 65, 241284, 241DIG38, B02C 1912
Patent
active
049747819
ABSTRACT:
This invention relates to an improved method and apparatus to effect the separation of component fractions from paper-containing and plastic-containing waste materials. This method and apparatus accepts materials of widely varying characteristics such as paper, plastics, glass, metal, food wastes and other materials to be inserted en masse into a rotating vessel equipped with lifting paddles and directional flighting. In this way the intimate contact of materials with moisture and heat is accomplished, thus effecting the repulping of paper materials. The repulped materials, as a result of directional tumbling, are dispersed throughout the vessel. Because of the repulping of the pulpable materials, size reduction of the randomly large and odd-shaped pulpable material is accomplished. By virtue of the size reduction of the large and odd-shaped pulpable materials, the non-pulpable components are freed of the particle shapes and surfaces that affect separation. The repulping of the pulpable materials increases the bulk density of those materials, further enhancing their separation from the additional components. The recovered pulped product is suitable for recycling into the paper industry; for combustion as a high quality fuel or for use as a feedstock for conversion into chemicals. The recovered non-pulpable materials such as plastics, glass, metals, aluminum and other materials are suitable for recycling into their producer industries; as feedstock raw materials for additional manufacturing of products; or any or all of these materials can be disposed of in a sanitary landfill as is the commonly accepted practice.
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Renfro Julian C.
Rosenbaum Mark
The Placzek Family Trust
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