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US 5,628,912 AGranted
Rotary separator method for manure slurries
AssigneeNTH, Inc.
InventorClinton A. Nesseth
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AssigneeNTH, Inc.
InventorClinton A. Nesseth
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A method and apparatus for efficiently separating solids from liquid/solid slurries are disclosed. The slurry to be separated is retainably placed within a container having one or more lift paddles secured within its inner cavity. The container is supported for rotation about an axis and has drive means for slowly rotating the container. As the container rotates, the lift paddles lift a portion of the retained slurry, allowing the liquid portion to fall back into the primary slurry pool to be separated, and lifting the solids toward the top of the rotation path of the paddles. The separated solids slide by gravity off of the lift paddles as they approach the top of their rotation paths and into a collection hopper and transport means that carry them away from the container. The liquids returned to the primary retained slurry within the container assist in washing the slurry for facilitating solids separation without required increase in the retained slurry volume. Continuous flow-through and multiple chamber separation containers are disclosed.
A method of continuously separating solids from a solid/liquid manure slurry, comprising the steps of:
A method of separating solids from a liquid/solid manure slurry, comprising:
A method of progressively separating solids from a manure slurry in a rotatable separation container defining at least first and second axially spaced and aligned solid wall separation chambers, comprising the steps of:
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