Waste disposal apparatus and method
AssigneeMechline Developments Limited
InventorPeter Sage-Passant
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Abstract
A waste disposal apparatus for disposing of waste materials using aerobic decomposition includes a decomposition chamber, a waste inlet configured to admit waste materials into the decomposition chamber, a water feed system configured for supplying feed water to the decomposition chamber and a drain system configured for draining drain liquid from the decomposition chamber. The apparatus also includes a sensing system configured to sense the volume VF of feed water supplied to the decomposition chamber and the volume VD of drain liquid drained from the decomposition chamber, and a computing device that is configured to determine the quantity of waste material processed by the waste disposal apparatus from the sensed volumes VF and VD.
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A waste disposal apparatus for disposing of waste materials using aerobic decomposition, the apparatus comprising a decomposition chamber, a waste inlet configured to admit waste materials into the decomposition chamber, a water feed system configured for supplying feed water to the decomposition chamber, a drain system configured for draining drain liquid from the decomposition chamber, a sensing system configured to sense a volume VF of feed water supplied to the decomposition chamber and a volume VD of drain liquid drained from the decomposition chamber, and a computing device that is configured to determine a weight W of waste material processed by the waste disposal apparatus from the sensed volumes VF and VD using the algorithm W=(VD−VF)÷k where k has a value in the range 0.7-0.8.
A method of disposing of waste materials using aerobic decomposition, the method comprising loading waste materials into a decomposition chamber, supplying feed water to the decomposition chamber, draining drain liquid from the decomposition chamber, sensing a volume VF of feed water supplied to the decomposition chamber and a volume VD of drain liquid drained from the decomposition chamber, and determining a weight W of waste material processed by the waste disposal apparatus from the sensed volumes VF and VD using the algorithm W=(VD−VF)÷k where k has a value in the range 0.7-0.8.
A waste disposal apparatus for disposing of waste materials using aerobic decomposition, the apparatus comprising:
- a decomposition chamber;
- a waste inlet that opens into the decomposition chamber and that is adapted to admit associated waste materials to be decomposed into the decomposition chamber;
- a water inlet and a drain liquid outlet;
- a water tank in fluid communication with the water inlet;
- a water pump in fluid communication with both the water tank and the decomposition chamber and adapted to pump water from the water tank to the decomposition chamber;
- a drain pump in fluid communication with both the decomposition chamber and the drain liquid outlet and adapted to pump drain liquid from the decomposition chamber to the drain liquid outlet;
- a water feed sensor that provides information related to a volume VF of water supplied to the decomposition chamber from the water tank by the water pump;
- a drain liquid sensor that provides information related to a volume VD of drain liquid pumped by the drain pump from the decomposition chamber to the drain liquid outlet;
- a computing device that is configured to determine a weight W of the associated waste materials processed by the waste disposal apparatus based upon the volume VF of water supplied to the decomposition chamber from the water tank by the water pump and based upon the volume VD of drain liquid pumped by the drain pump from the decomposition chamber to the drain liquid outlet, wherein said computing device calculates said weight W of the associated waste materials according to:
- W=(VD−VF)÷k where k has a value in the range 0.7-0.8.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.