Process and apparatus for utilizing animal excrement
AssigneeSupersoil Systems
InventorsYakov Rozental, Matitiahu Fichman, Kim Shuster, Leonid Moldavsky, Leonid Aizikovich
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Abstract
A process for the manufacture of a product useful as an artificial soil, soil conditioner or peat substitute, effected by subjecting an aqueous mixture containing a substantially solid feed excrement from animals and water to treatment with an alternating electric current at a frequency of a predetermined magnitude and for a predetermined period of time, such that an odorless solid product capable of absorbing several times its own weight of water is recoverable by water removal.
Claims12
A process for the manufacture of a product useful as an artificial soil, soil conditioner or peat substitute, comprising the step of subjecting an aqueous mixture containing a substantially solid feed excrement from animals and water to treatment with an alternating electric current at a frequency of a predetermined magnitude and for a predetermined period of time, such that an odorless solid product capable of absorbing several times its own weight of water is recoverable by water removal.
A product useful as an artificial soil, soil conditioner or peat substitute comprising an electrically treated excrement from animals, the product being odorless, porous, microbiologically sterile and capable of absorbing several times its own weight of water.
An apparatus for the manufacture of an odorless and porous solid product capable of absorbing several times its own weight of water, useful as an artificial soil, soil conditioner or peat substitute, the apparatus comprising a line including in sequence:
- (a) a first mechanism for providing a substantially solid feed including excrement from animals into the apparatus;
- (b) a second mechanism for forming an aqueous mixture of said substantially solid feed with water;
- (c) a reactor mechanism for subjecting said aqueous mixture to treatment with an alternating electric current at a predetermined frequency;
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- (d) a third mechanism for separating excess liquid from a product resulting from said reactor mechanism and for recovering the solid product.
A reactor mechanism for use in an apparatus for the manufacture of an odorless and porous solid product capable of absorbing several times its own weight of water, useful as an artificial soil, soil conditioner or peat substitute, the reactor mechanism comprising a reactor defining a reactor space bounded by insulating wall mechanism, said reactor including inlet and outlet mechanisms for flowing aqueous mixture through said reactor space, and phase and zero electrodes being cooperatively disposed within said reactor space and being connected to a supply of alternating electric current having a predetermined frequency, thereby providing mechanism for applying said current to said aqueous mixture when said mixture flows through said reactor space.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.