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Solid Municipal Waste is loaded, or loaded and compacted, into a pressure vessel which has means for very fast opening for discharging the contents. The pressure vessel is pressurized, with steam, or a compressed gas such as compressed air. The pressure vessel can be fitted with a breech and a quick

Solid Municipal Waste is loaded, or loaded and compacted, into a pressure vessel which has means for very fast opening for discharging the contents. The pressure vessel is pressurized, with steam, or a compressed gas such as compressed air. The pressure vessel can be fitted with a breech and a quick release muzzle cover and at the discharge end (muzzle) thereof is fitted with an orifice whose purpose is to promote a powerful turbulence and shock wave, through which the exiting solid material must pass to maintain pressure within the vessel during discharge, and to control the rate of discharge. The disruptive forces produced at the orifice, which can be either a sub-sonic, sonic, or supersonic flow orifice, are a function of the strength of the shock wave or the turbulence. The discharged material is then gravity separated in the wet or dry conditions and the separated materials are then employed in additional processes, or employed as landfill depending on its chemical and physical properties.

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A method of treating solid municipal waste and other solid materials containing organic and inorganic substances comprising the steps: (a) loading the solid materials into an elongated pressure vessel; (b) pressurizing the loaded pressure vessel with compressed gas; (c) causing the pressurized conte

A method of treating solid municipal waste and other solid materials containing organic and inorganic substances comprising the steps: (a) loading the solid materials into an elongated pressure vessel; (b) pressurizing the loaded pressure vessel with compressed gas; (c) causing the pressurized contents to rapidly discharge from the pressure vessel through a restricted orifice to thereby promote a powerful turbulence and shock wave; (d) collecting the discharged material in a container having a volume substantially larger than the volume of the pressure vessel; (e) maintaining the pressure in the container not substantially above ambient pressure; (f) causing the discharged material in the container to separate into heavy and light fractions in either a wet or a dry condition; and (g) separately removing the heavy and light fractions from the container; said method further characterized in that the vessel is discharged horizontally over the surface of water in a tank and where the contents fall into the tank.