Abstract: A process for reducing the cost associated with the transportation and disposal of waste material by extracting water ad other liquids from municipal solid waste, construction and demolition debris, and putrescible waste to thereby significantly reduce the weight of the material prior to transport. In one embodiment, the process involves waste product being turned through a heated auger system, wherein the waste material is indirectly heated by high temperature oil to remove the liquid (including water) and moisture content from the waste product. In another embodiment, the process involves manual or automated movement of the waste material through an environmentally contained area that houses heating devices (e.g., heat lamps) for simulating sunlight, fans, and a water purification and filtration system for drying the waste material and delivering the water content to the water filtration and purification system.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for treating an aqueous-containing sludge in which the sludge is filtered on an elongate moving sheet of a water permeable unwoven fabric on paper. The moving sheet is folded and compressed between rollers whereby to express water therefrom. The folded moving sheet and contained sludge is dried, and the dried sheet and sludge is incinerated. Combustion heat from the incineration step is used in the drying step.

Abstract: The present invention is a channeled roller, used in association with flexible webs, which is provided with a pressurized gas flow, and which may be used to remove web wrinkles, clean webs and rollers, brake rollers, and heat, cool, moisturize, and dry webs. In operation, gas flow travels through the roller channels and applies non-contact forces to the web, thereby removing wrinkles and providing other types of beneficial web treatment.

Abstract: As a rule a melt-good consisting of glass fragments and glass batching will be moist and tend to agglomerate and bridge-form when being preheated in a plate heat-exchanger 10 whereby the travel of the melt-good through the plate heat-exchanger 10 may be blocked. To remedy these drawbacks, the preheating stage is preceded by a drying stage of the moist melt-good. For that purpose, in the intake zone of the melt-good, the moisture of the melt-good is evaporated by means of a separate feed of hot heating gas into the already cooled flows of heating gas. At the same time the heated melt-good is made to pass through cavities 12 through which the steam may escape to the outside. Thereby condensation shall be precluded and only fluid or friable melt-good arrives at the preheating stage.