Liquid purification or separation – Processes – Treatment by living organism
Reexamination Certificate
2006-02-21
2006-02-21
Hruskoci, Peter A. (Department: 1724)
Liquid purification or separation
Processes
Treatment by living organism
C205S751000, C210S610000, C210S624000, C210S626000, C210S748080, C422S022000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07001520
ABSTRACT:
A method of treating of municipal sludge, paper-pulp sludge, animal and plant waste, and the like, whereby the treatment thereof via electroporation causes the breakdown of waste activated sludge, which is then recycled back to a bioreactor, or to one or more additional bioreactors such as aerobic, facultative, anoxic, or strictly anaerobic.
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Chauhan Satya P.
Held Jeffrey
Hruskoci Peter A.
Marshall & Gerstein & Borun LLP
Opencel LLC.
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