Patents Assigned to Toxco Inc
  • Capacitor electrolyte recovery
    Patent number: 6896807
    Abstract: A method for recovering and recycling expensive and hazardous components from capacitors containing an electrolyte salt dissolved in an aprotic organic solvent. The method includes disintegrating a plurality of capacitor casings and their contents into fragments and forming an aqueous slurry of water insoluble fragments, filtering fractionally distilling the filtrate to remove the solvent as a distillate and recovering the electrolyte salt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: Toxco Inc
    Inventors: W. Novis Smith, Terry Adams