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Apparatus for cleaning contaminated soil

US5111756A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 23, 1991
Grant dateMay 12, 1992
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Expiry dateMay 23, 2011

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S241/10
  • WIPO fieldEnvironmental technology
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A portable machine for sanitizing soil, particularly that contaminated with petroleum products, including a closed main chamber including vertically spaced augers (26,28,30) which agitate the soil while moving it into position to fall in parallel sheets after it strikes a separation bar 52. A burner 44 generates heat which passes through the falling soil driving off the petroleum which is then burned.

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