USA As Represented by Secretary of the Navy

Craig S Alig

Peter S McGraw

William K Upton, Iii

Christopher C Chiodo

A trash compactor is provided having at least a hollow compaction chamber rtically disposed on a base and a compacting ram slidaly fitted within the compaction chamber, such that the compacting ram is disposed above the trash to be compacted. The trash to be compacted is first loaded into the compaction chamber between the base and the compacting ram. A downward compaction force is then applied to the compacting ram to compact the trash within the compaction chamber to the required density. The downward compaction force is then maintained while the compaction chamber is removed from around the compacted trash. Finally, the downward compaction force is removed from the compacting ram thereby leaving a compacted trash slug. The trash may be wetted prior to compaction to further enhance the delamination characteristics of the trash slug.

Apparatus for forming negatively buoyant high-density trash slugs

An automatic dual-mode shipboard wastewater treatment system employing ozone for disinfection of the primary effluent. Solids are removed and pumped, for example, to the ship's boiler or other equipment for incineration, while the liquid waste is pumped through a series of ozone reactors and then to a holding tank from which it is discharged overboard, after accumulating to a predetermined level. The system operates continuously by recirculating the effluent, during low flow periods, between a second holding tank and the ozone reactors.

Shipboard blackwater physical/chemical treatment system

An ozone reactor having two elongated chambers mounted coaxially. The outer hamber having closures at each end and the inner chamber being smaller in cross section and being mounted in spaced relation to the outer chamber as well as being spaced from the end closures of the outer chamber. The outer chamber has inlet and outlet ports for admitting and exhausting the liquid. Mounted near the bottom end of the inner chamber is a sparger for introducing bubbles containing ozone which rise to the top of the liquid causing a circulation flow between the two chambers and up through the inner chamber. There may also be a stirrer mounted to extend into the inner chamber to cause a breakup of the ozone containing bubbles thereby speeding the dissolving of the ozone into the liquid. Also there may be included a spray mounted to control the foaming of the liquid.

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Arnold, MD, United States of America

Craig S Alig