A mobile soil and sludge treatment apparatus and a method of treating soil and sludge useful in a soil washing process or a biological decontamination of soils and/or sludges. In one embodiment of the invention, a plurality of tanks are mounted on a vehicular trailer for over-the-road movement and each tank includes aerator/mixers and a plurality of peripherally arranged air jets with the mixing, aeration and air jets combining to prevent settling of the solids in the slurry during the decontamination process. In a second embodiment of the invention, a single large tank is mounted on a vehicular trailer with the tank including aerator/mixers and a slurry pump for recirculating the slurry throughout the tank with the recirculating pipes terminating in jet nozzles or eductors which enhance mixing and solids suspension. In a third embodiment, the aeration/mixing is obtained by a plurality of downwardly directed air jet nozzles adjacent the bottom of the tank. The apparatus and method efficiently maintain the suspension of solids in a slurry environment for enhancing solubilizing of contaminants from the solids and producing decontaminated soils.

Soil and sludge treatment apparatus and method including agitation, aeration and recirculation

There is provided a bottom distributor for applying elastic tubing with gas for installation in waste water clarifiers, which essentially comprises a hollow base body of freely selectable length with at least one connecting socket for introducing gas and at least one outlet (5) for connecting a with gas to be acted upon the tube (2), wherein the outlet (5) is pivotable in a vertical plane.

Distributor for introducing gas into elastic tubes

A diffuser for the treatment of waste sludge utilizes low pressure air injected from below to produce a bed capable of being handled as a fluid such as to permit pumping from a sedimentation basin to a tank truck for transport to a point of use or disposal. A system of air discharge pipes strategically located in the basin below the sludge connects with common air receiving manifold at the periphery of the basin, and a complete valve arrangement permits control of the air discharge to accommodate for all types of sludge under various conditions as required prior to and during emptying of the contents of the basin.

Lynn E. Bultman

Papers

Sludge diffusion method and apparatus