Cleaning and liquid contact with solids – Processes – Work handled in bulk or groups
Patent
1991-02-28
1991-10-01
Pal, Asok
Cleaning and liquid contact with solids
Processes
Work handled in bulk or groups
134 26, 134 33, 134 42, 175 66, 175206, 2105121, 210787, B08B 308, B08B 1300
Patent
active
050530828
ABSTRACT:
A system for cleaning solids contaminated with solvent-soluble contaminants. The system, which includes both process and apparatus, comprises slurrying of the solids with a solvent, feeding the slurry to a cyclone separation zone integrally connected to a countercurrent extraction zone, separating the slurry into an overflow stream which includes solvent and fine particles of solids and an underflow stream which includes mostly coarse particles of solids in the cyclone separation zone, processing the overflow stream in a cleaning zone with additional solvent, processing the underflow stream in countercurrent relationship with additional solvent through the countercurrent extraction zone, combining the cleaned coarse particles of solids withdrawn from the extraction zone with the cleaned fine particles of solids withdrawn from the cleaning zone and centrifuging the combined cleaned particles to remove residual solvent and recovering the combined solids having reduced contamination for disposal.
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Flanigan David A.
Heilhecker Joe K.
Williams Robert E.
Conoco Inc.
Pal Asok
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