METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEPARATING SUBSTANCE

• Main Authors: ITO TOMOAKI, MASUNARI MITSUO, AWATA KAZUHIKO, OHARA NAGAHISA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 19.06.2008
• Subjects: AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F,C08G; CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOIDCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO WASTEWATERTREATMENT OR WASTE MANAGEMENT; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON; CRACKING HYDROCARBON OILS; FUELS; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; LUBRICANTS; METALLURGY; MINERAL WAXES; ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; PEAT; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL; PRODUCTION OF LIQUID HYDROCARBON MIXTURES, e.g. BY DESTRUCTIVEHYDROGENATION, OLIGOMERISATION, POLYMERISATION; RECOVERY OF HYDROCARBON OILS FROM OIL-SHALE, OIL-SAND, ORGASES; REFINING MIXTURES MAINLY CONSISTING OF HYDROCARBONS; REFORMING OF NAPHTHA; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINSTCLIMATE CHANGE; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS; TRANSPORTING; WORKING-UP

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and an apparatus for separating substances, in each of which a composite material such as a waste electric wire or a mixture such as waste oil is treated and separated into a useful material and an unnecessary material. SOLUTION: The apparatus 1 for separating substances, which is used for treating the composite material such as the waste electric wire or the mixture such as waste oil, is provided with a housing tank 2 and a superheated steam generating unit (a superheated steam generating means) 3. The superheated steam generated in the superheated steam generating unit 3 is sent to a superheated steam introduction part 53 and jetted from a plurality of superheated steam introduction pipelines 56 toward the composite material to be treated. When the composite material contains a metal and thermoplastic plastic or synthetic rubber like the waste electric wire, the thermoplastic plastic or synthetic rubber in the composite material is pyrolyzed and gasified by the action of superheated steam. Meanwhile, the metal in the composite material can be recovered as it is without being oxidized. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT