Accelerated Processing
OwnerRichard Lee Ahoinventor
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Abstract
This method improves and controls ex-situ or in-situ, aerobic or anaerobic digestion of organic materials and toxic or damaging compounds through increased control of multiple chemical and biological settings and conditions. The ability to control flow, natural processes, and biological activity, while adjusting to individual site conditions, offer many opportunities to modify results. Large quantities of modified or adjusted organisms are developed and utilized. Identification and strategic manipulation of the multiple elements of the system result in performance modifications. Energy is utilized to manipulate characteristics of a natural degradation system.
Claims10
A method, wherein aerobic microorganisms are utilized to facilitate improved processing capabilities by minimizing the constraints to population growth and organism survival by any of the steps of:
- aeration of liquids before or during adding the liquid to the to solids;
- providing powered internal flow of aerated liquids within, into, and out of solids;
- the capturing and cycling the flow of liquid, one or more times, through the solid while maintaining the carried organisms.
A method, wherein anaerobic microorganisms are utilized to facilitate improved processing capabilities by minimizing the constraints to population growth and organism survival by any of the steps of:
- providing powered internal flow of anaerobic liquids through the solids, overcoming the anaerobic organisms ability to limit flow of liquid;
- the capturing and forcing liquid, one or more times, through the solids while maintaining the carried organisms.
An aerobic digestion method for treating biodegradable solid waste comprising:
- providing a liquid containment structure for holding a volume of biodegradable solid waste;
- providing said liquid containment structure with a liquid introduction system and a liquid collection system, said liquid introduction system including a mixing system for creating oxygen-enriched liquid;
- filling said liquid containment structure with a volume of biodegradable solid waste;
- providing a source of liquid;
- providing a source of air or oxygen;
- mixing said source liquid and said air or oxygen using said mixing system to create an oxygen-enriched liquid;
- introducing said oxygen-enriched liquid into said volume of solid waste using said liquid introduction system to contact said volume of solid waste so as to aerobically degrade said volume of solid waste into processed waste, wherein said mixing step is performed at the point of introduction of the oxygen-enriched liquid into the volume of solid waste and during said introducing step;
- and collecting any excess liquid within the volume of solid waste using said liquid collection system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.