Processing and use of waste latex materials
AssigneeC & H Services of North Georgia, LLC
InventorJames Craig Hankins
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Abstract
A process for recovering waste latex material from a manufacturing plant, treating the recovered waste latex material, and subsequently utilizing the recovered and treated waste latex material in a manufacturing plant. Waste latex material is recovered and treated to provide a fine, sand-like material that is suitable for reintroduction into a latex adhesive manufacturing process.
Claims6
A process for recovering waste latex material from a manufacturing plant, treating the recovered waste latex material, and subsequently utilizing the recovered and treated waste latex material in a manufacturing plant, the process comprising the steps of:
- recovering waste latex material from the manufacturing plant, comprising identifying a vessel in the plant having waste latex material and removing from the vessel waste latex material in the form of solids and sludge to provide recovered waste latex material;
- treating the recovered waste latex material to provide treated waste latex material consisting essentially of drying the recovered waste latex material so that it has a moisture content of about 2% or less water by weight and comminuting the dried recovered waste latex material into particles of substantially uniform size suitable so that the comminuted material is suitable for reintroduction into a latex adhesive manufacturing process;
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- utilizing the treated recovered latex material by introducing the treated waste latex material into a latex manufacturing process.
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