Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Synthetic aggregates comprising sewage sludge and other waste materials and methods for producing such aggregates
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Application No.: US11332459Application Date: 2006-01-13
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Publication No.: US07655088B2Publication Date: 2010-02-02
- Inventor: Sophia Bethani
- Applicant: Sophia Bethani
- Applicant Address: BM Hamilton
- Assignee: Alkemy, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Alkemy, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: BM Hamilton
- Agency: Kaye Scholer LLP
- Agent Brandon N. Sklar, Esq.
- Priority: GR20050100015 20050114; GR20050100470 20050916
- Main IPC: C04B18/08
- IPC: C04B18/08

Abstract:
In one example of an embodiment of the invention, a method for producing an aggregate is disclosed comprising mixing sewage sludge from a waste water treatment facility with a non-coal combustion ash silicoaluminous waste material, agglomerating the mixture to form an agglomerate, and pyroprocessing the agglomerate to form an aggregate. The waste material may comprise municipal solid waste incinerator bottom ash, incinerator fly ash, incinerator filter dusts, cement kiln dusts, waste glass, blast furnace slag, kiln dusts, and/or granite sawing residues, for example. The method may further comprise milling the waste material prior to mixing. Preferably, the milling is wet milling. Pyroprocessing of the agglomerate may take place in a rotary kiln. The resulting aggregate may be a lightweight or a normal weight, sintered or vitrified aggregate. Aggregates and methods for making aggregates of high and low calcium silicoaluminous materials are also disclosed.
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