摘要 |
<p>An apparatus and method for the treatment of waste solids that allows for the direct transfer of heat between host waste solids and cold waste solids in a tube-in-tube heat exchanger (42). Cold solid waste is moved from a cold solid waste source (20) through one tube of the heat exchanger, and hot solid waste is moved from a hot solid waste source (64) through the other tube of the tube-in-tube heat exchanger (42), and heat is transferred from the hot solid waste to the cold solid waste. The waste treatment, including the heat exchange, can occur in a batch mode or in a continuous mode.</p> |