Patents Assigned to Foster Wheeler Environmental Corp.
  • Patent number: 6213029
    Abstract: A process and an apparatus for recovering and treating hazardous and non-hazardous components from process streams generated from a continuous system for selectively separating organic and inorganic constituents from contaminated material. The contaminated material is heated to a first temperature sufficient to volatilize water and lower boiling point constituents contained in the material, thereby producing a dried solid material and a first gas containing water vapor and volatilized lower boiling point constituents. The contaminated material is heated in a dryer, which includes an indirect heated hot oil screw dryer having a screw for conveying the material. The first gas is separated from the dried solid material. The lower boiling point constituents are recovered from the first gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignee: Foster Wheeler Environmental Corp.
    Inventors: Raleigh Wayne Potter, Michael Fitzgerald