Patents Assigned to Societe General pour les Techniques Nouvelles - SGN
  • Patent number: 6815572
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of processing organic waste (D) in divided solid and/or liquid form, the method being implemented in a single reactor (1) containing a bath of molten glass (V) surmounted by a gas phase (G), the method comprising incinerating said waste (D) in the presence of oxygen at the surface (S) of said bath of molten glass (V), and in vitrifying said incinerated waste (D) in said bath of molten glass (V). In said method, and in characteristic manner, in addition to the oxygen delivered as oxidizer into said gas phase (G), oxygen is also injected into said bath of molten glass (V) in a quantity that is sufficient to minimize or to avoid any formation of metal within said bath of glass (V); advantageously in a quantity that is sufficient to minimize or to avoid any formation of metal within said bath of glass (V) and also to subject said bath of glass (V) to moderate stirring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignees: Korea Electric Power Corporation, Societe General pour les Techniques Nouvelles - SGN
    Inventors: Pierre Brunelot, Jacques Lacombe, Serge Merlin, Patrice Roux, Valérie Thiebaut, Kwan-Sik Choi, Myung-Jae Song