Abstract: The present invention provides a method of treating fats and oils containing low concentrations of aromatic halogen compounds and other contaminants by contacting the fats or oils with an adsorbing agent. The adsorbing agent contains a porous body and a non-protonic polar solvent held in the interiors of fine pores in the porous body to adsorb the contaminants. In one embodiment, the porous body also carries noble metal fine particles. In another embodiment, the adsorbing body comprises a solid acid for adsorbing the contaminants and there is a step of contacting the adsorbing body with an organic solvent to extract the adsorbed contaminants into the organic solvent.

Abstract: In a method of removing an aromatic halide from oil containing the aromatic halide, the aromatic halide compound being extracted from the oil containing the aromatic halide compound safely and highly efficiently, by extraction using an extracting solvent containing 1,3-dialkyl-2-imidazolidinone which is sulfur free and has extremely high extraction separation ability, or by using an extraction solvent containing an aqueous solution of 1,3-dialkyl-2-imidazolidinone. A system of removing aromatic halide compound from oil containing the aromatic halide compound includes a first supply source of a first extracting solvent containing 1,3-dialkyl-2-imidazolidinone; a second supply source of the oil containing the aromatic halide compound; and a first extractor which extracts the aromatic halide compound from the oil containing the aromatic halide compound supplied from the second supply source, by the first extracting-solvent supplied from the first supply source.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of treating fats and oils containing low concentration aromatic halogen compounds which could remove the aromatic halogen compound contaminant efficiently from the oil and fats.

Abstract: A processing apparatus capable of separating and recovering resins and metals, respectively, from an object being processed, which has resins and metals as its constituent, comprises a first gastight area (102), in which temperature and pressure are regulated so as to permit selective thermal decomposition of resins from the object (150) being processed, a second gastight area (103), which is partitioned from the first gastight area by an openable and closeable partition (105C) and in which temperature and pressure are regulated so as to permit selective vaporization of metals from the object, first recovering chamber (111) connected to the first gastight area for recovering gases produced by thermal decomposition of resins, and second recovering chamber (115) connected to the second gastight area for recovering vaporized metals.