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Method for incinerating sludges

Patent ·
OSTI ID:5663928

A method is disclosed for incinerating sludges. The process consists of the following steps: delivering a very homogeneous mixture of at least one combustible gas with a large amount of excess air at a plurality of locations in the lower part of an incineration zone; initiating the combustion of said mixture; finely pulverizing the sludge in the combustion zone; evacuating the incineration products from the incineration zone by carrying them along with the gaseous combustion products; and controlling precisely the temperature of the combustion products while they are being evacuated from the incineration zone.

Assignee:
Nationale ELF Aquitaine (Production)(France)
Patent Number(s):
US 4194454
OSTI ID:
5663928
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English