Transportation of Refinery Solids Waste
AssigneeThe Maitland Company
InventorRobert M. Rumph
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Abstract
A vehicle configured to carry solid refinery waste is disclosed. The vehicle includes a mobile tank including a plurality of compartments and at least one buffer disposed between each of the plurality of compartments. The vehicle further includes a plurality of manhole openings on a top wall of the tank, each manhole opening being associated with one of the plurality of compartments and being sized to enable an agitator to pass therethrough. The vehicle also includes a plurality of connectors, each connector being affixed to the mobile tank for movement therewith to selectively secure the agitator and a plurality of fluid valves sized to permit an emulsion of the solid refinery waste and at least one diluent to pass therethrough in flowable form.
Claims8
1-14. (canceled)
A method of transporting solid refinery waste, the method comprising:
- loading solid refinery waste into a mobile tank having at least one sloped floor wall and a plurality of compartments separated by at least one buffer;
- maintaining a head space between a top level of the solid refinery waste and a top wall of the mobile tank;
- transporting the mobile tank loaded with the solid refinery waste such that during transporting the at least one buffer impedes migration of solid refinery waste between the plurality of compartments;
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- delivering the mobile tank to a burning facility that maintains a reserve of diluent and that is equipped with an agitator configured for lowering into the mobile tank through a manhole opening, to thereby permit the diluent to be conveyed into the headspace and mixed with the solid refinery waste, thereby enabling a resulting mixture to be off-loaded for burning at the burning facility.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.