Method for treating waste-activated sludge using elecroporation
US7001520B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 8, 2004 |
| Grant date | Feb 21, 2006 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 8, 2024 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02W10/10
- WIPO fieldEnvironmental technology
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A method of treating of municipal sludge, paper-pulp sludge, animal and plant waste, and the like, whereby the treatment thereof via electroporation causes the breakdown of waste activated sludge, which is then recycled back to a bioreactor, or to one or more additional bioreactors such as aerobic, facultative, anoxic, or strictly anaerobic.
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