Method for starting up and controlling the operating temperature of a wet oxidation process.

摘要

A method for starting up and controlling the temperature of a wet oxidation process in which a heat exchanger (30) employing superheated steam is used to initially heat a waste stream introduced into a wet oxidation reaction vessel (38) for start up and then to subsequently adjust the temperature of the waste stream, after it is preheated by the effluent from the reaction vessel, to a level suitable to maintain steady state operation of the reaction vessel. <IMAGE>