Waste evaporation disposal system
AssigneeMonogram Industries, Inc.
InventorsRobert L. Rod, Walter L. Penick, Jr., Henry B. Heller
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Abstract
A non-polluting wastewater evaporation disposal method and system wherein hydrogen gas is electrolytically produced from the wastewater, collected and used as a source of fuel to evaporate the wastewater to thereby convert the wastewater to a disinfected non-polluting sterile solid residue and water vapor. A halogen having an atomic number of between 16 and 54 may also be electrolytically produced from the wastewater and used to disinfect the wastewater.
Claims12
A non-polluting method for disposing of waste-water comprising:
- bringing said wastewater into a liquid-retaining cell having an anode and cathode therein and into contact with an anode and cathode.
- passing an electric current through said wastewater in said cell and between said anode and cathode thereby producing hydrogen gas at the cathode and a halogen at said anode;
- keeping the hydrogen gas separate from the chlorine gas;
- bringing said halogen into intimate contact with said wastewater in said cell to disinfect and said wastewater;
- collecting said hydrogen gas;
- removing said wastewater after contact with said halogen from said cell;
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- evaporating said wastewater using said collected hydrogen gas as a source of fuel to convert the removed wastewater from said cell into disinfected non-polluting sterile solid residue and water vapor.
A non-polluting method for disposing of the output of waste matter discharged from a recirculating toilet system using as a flushing medium a recirculating flushing fluid, the method comprising the steps of:
- bringing said waste matter into contact with an anode and a cathode in a liquid-retaining cell;
- passing an electric current through said waste matter and between said anode and cathode thereby producing hydrogen gas at the cathode and a halogen at said anode;
- collecting said produced hydrogen gas;
- bringing said waste matter in said cell into intimate contact with said halogen produced at said anode to disinfect said waste matter;
- removing said waste matter from said cell after contact with said halogen;
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- evaporating said wastewater using said collected hydrogen gas as a source of fuel to convert the removed waste matter into disinfected non-polluting sterile solid residue and water vapor.
A non-polluting method for disposing of wastewater containing a halogen-containing salt, the halogen having an atomic number of between 16 and 54, to a sterile solid residue and water vapor comprising the steps of:
- electrolytically producing a halogen and hydrogen gas in a halogen salt containing cell and preventing said hydrogen gas from contacting said halogen;
- mixing said produced halogen in situ with said wastewater to disinfect said wastewater;
- collecting said hydrogen gas;
- burning said hydrogen gas;
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- purifying said wastewater after mixing with said halogen until said wastewater is converted to both a sterile solid residue and water vapor using the burning hydrogen gas as a source of fuel.
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