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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2008
Applicants:
Abdul Rafi Khwaja, Upper Gwynedd Township, PA (US);
Stephen R. Vasconcellos, Doylestown, PA (US);
Inventors:
Abdul Rafi Khwaja, Upper Gwynedd Township, PA (US);
Stephen R. Vasconcellos, Doylestown, PA (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C02F 1/56 (2006.01); C02F 103/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for recovering tallow from meat processing wastewater includes adding a coagulant composition to the wastewater to agglomerate suspended fat, oil and grease particles in the wastewater, separating solid waste materials from the wastewater and isolating tallow from the solid waste materials. The coagulant composition includes tannin.