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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 1993
Filed:
Apr. 18, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
John B Rodden, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Assignee:
Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C02F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
210180 ; 210110 ; 210181 ; 210188 ; 55 53 ; 55159 ; 55196 ; 55208 ; 422173 ; 422198 ;
Abstract
A system is disclosed for reducing the level of minor amounts of volatile organic contaminants, from contaminated water, which includes pump means to feed water from the body of contaminated water to the system, a plurality of heating means to raise the temperature of the water, a contact vessel to contact the heated water with gas to strip the volatile contaminants from the water, gas supply means to provide stripping gas to the vessel, and means to pass the removed volatile contaminants to a furnace for disposal by combustion.