Abstract: The invention is a process for treating waste slurry generated in the electric furnace production of phosphorus in which a superatmospheric reactor is operated at an elevated temperature to destroy cyanides, phosphorus, and phosphides present in the waste. The process transforms wastes from the phosphorus electric furnace process into non-hazardous solid, liquid, and gaseous wastes that meet environmental regulatory requirements regarding solids for phosphorous, cyanide, phosphine and cyanide flux, and TCLP metals, and regarding the filtrate for UTS metals.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 30, 2000
Date of Patent:
September 3, 2002
Assignee:
FMC Properties,LLC.
Inventors:
James L. Manganaro, Henry A. Pfeffer, Jay R. Brummer, Bert D. McMunn, Christopher M. Knapp, William M. Copa