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US 5,958,252 AGranted
Waste treatment device and method employing the same
AssigneeMicroSepTic, Inc.
InventorR. C. Shades
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Abstract
A waste treatment device includes a waste holding tank for receiving waste, a solids-gas processor operably connected to the waste holding tank, an aqueous holding tank operably connected to the processor and the waste holding tank and an aqueous purification device operably connected to the aqueous holding tank.
Claims18
A waste treatment device for treatment of human waste which includes solid waste and aqueous fluid waste, which includes:
- a solids and aqueous fluids waste holding tank for receiving the human waste;
- a solids-gas processor operably connected to said solids and aqueous fluids waste holding tank and including means for combustion of the human waste to substantially form a gaseous biproduct and an aqueous fluid biproduct, wherein said gaseous biproduct is substantially cleaned by said solids-gas processor;
- an aqueous waste holding tank operably connected to said solids-gas processor and said solids and aqueous fluids waste holding tank in a manner to receive aqueous fluids directly and separately therefrom;
- and
- an aqueous purification device operably connected to said aqueous waste holding tank having means for purifying said aqueous fluids to render a resultant substantially contaminant free water.
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A method for treating human waste which includes both solids and liquids, which include the steps of:
- (a) feeding solids and aqueous fluids waste into a solids and aqueous fluids waste holding tank;
- (b) feeding said waste into an incineration chamber;
- (c) elevating temperature of said waste to cause combustion thereof resulting in a gaseous biproduct and an aqueous biproduct;
- (d) treating said gaseous biproduct to substantially remove contaminants therefrom;
- (e) collecting said aqueous biproduct and overflow from said fluids waste holding tank in an aqueous waste holding tank;
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- (f) purifying said aqueous biproduct to provide resultant clean water.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.