摘要 |
Disclosed are a method and apparatus for treating oil-containing particulates such as mill sludge comprising applying a treatment solution to a particulate feed stream to form a treated slurry, applying a mechanical disrupter to the treated slurry to reduce an average particulate size, applying a magnetic separator to the treated slurry to form a ferrous slurry, and applying a thermal separator to the ferrous slurry to extract a hydrocarbon portion and produce a ferrous product stream. This basic method and the associated apparatus may be modified in a number of ways including, for example, applying a sizing operation to the oil-containing particulates to remove larger particles from the particulate feed stream, condensing a volume of the hydrocarbon portion or using magnetic separators of varying strength to provide ferrous slurries of varying ferrous content. |