Apparatus for drying Spent Ion-Exchange Resins (SIER), which can intensify the SIER drying process, reduce power consumption, and accelerate discharge of SIER when the drying process is completed. The apparatus comprises a sealed cylindrical body, and a blow-down choke installed in an upper part of the sealed cylindrical body and a nozzle to feed the spent ion-exchange resins is installed inside the body, and a nozzle to retrieve dried ion-exchange resins is installed in its bottom part and equipped with a locking device. An external heater is provided for the body, and a drive shaft that is installed in alignment inside the body, capable of rotation, and equipped with a stirrer. A lower part of the drive shaft with lower screw winding is installed in alignment inside the nozzle to retrieve dried ion-exchange resins. The nozzle to retrieve dried ion-exchange resins is equipped with a water draining device.

The present disclosure relates to a drying apparatus for a powder raw material for manufacturing a secondary cell with an electric heater. In an embodiment of the present disclosure, a plurality of independently controlled heaters are mounted on a main body of an apparatus in which a plurality of heating regions are defined, and the temperature deviation of the internal chamber can reduce by providing the amount of heat supplied to each heating region through the control of the plurality of heaters. The main body of the apparatus includes a cylindrical portion in which the powder raw material is accommodated and sidewalls on both sides of the cylindrical portion, and by installing heaters on the cylindrical portion and the sidewalls, respectively, the entire region defining the main body of the apparatus can be evenly heated.

Embodiments disclosed herein provide a bucket assembly and method of use thereof. The bucket assembly is a relatively lightweight and removable apparatus that can fracture cut, paddle, and heat contents contained therein. The bucket assembly can include a housing that has a curved metal plate and blade array attached thereto. A cut and paddle assembly can rotate within the housing and interface with the blade array to fracture cut contents contained therein. The cut and paddle assembly is also operative to mix the contents to ensure full dispersal within the housing. A flexible heater array is attached to and operative to heat the curved metal plate. The combination of the fracture cutting, paddling, and heating can convert organic matter to a ground and selectively desiccated product.

Embodiments disclosed herein provide an organic matter processing apparatus and method for the use thereof to convert organic matter into a ground and desiccated product. The organic matter processing apparatus includes a lid assembly that is positioned at the top or head of the processing apparatus and an air treatment system. The lid assembly is operative to open to allow a user to deposit organic matter into the processing apparatus or to remove a removable bucket contained therein. The lid assembly is operative to close and provide an odor containing seal that prevents or substantially mitigates escape of odor. The air treatment system uniformly distributes untreated air through an air treatment chamber to convert the untreated air to treated air, which is exhausted out of the processing apparatus.

A low-energy drying system and method including a drying bed having at least four edges for holding the material to be dried, walls connected to the edges of the drying bed, a cover encompassing the drying bed and the wall, the cover having air permeable side walls, and air flow directors for directing air over the material in the drying bed.

The present invention discloses low cost, on-site, efficient, and compact (stationary or mobile) system for continuous (non-batch operation) conversion of waste to usable products such as sources of energy, fertilizer, etc.

There is described here a method of desiccation of aerobic granules.

An apparatus is provided for feeding slurry to a recycling or slurry treatment process at an elevated location. The apparatus includes a reception hopper for receiving the slurry from a transport vehicle, and a bucket elevator for conveying the slurry from a loading zone, in communication with the reception hopper, to a discharge zone at an elevated location. The reception hopper includes a trough having parallel side walls and a bottom wall. The loading zone of the bucket elevator communicates with a first end of the trough, the trough including a movable wall extending perpendicular to the side walls of the reception hopper and being movable towards the first end of the trough to urge slurry towards the loading zone of the bucket elevator.

A cathode material integrated processing device, which dries, applies, and heat-treats a cathode material, according to an embodiment of the invention includes a support frame, a chamber part including a cylindrical body configured to accommodate the cathode material and a thick plate coupled to each of both ends of the cylindrical body to seal both the ends of the cylindrical body and configured to fix the cylindrical body to an upper portion of the support frame, a heating part disposed in each of the outside the cylindrical body and the outside the thick plate of the chamber part to heat the chamber part, a spray part including one or more nozzles, which is disposed between an upper portion and one side of the cylindrical body of the chamber part and is inserted in a longitudinal direction of the cylindrical body to spray a coating liquid to the cathode material within the chamber part through a gas, a stirring part rotatably disposed inside the cylindrical body of the chamber part to stir the cathode material within the chamber part, a driving part connected to one side of the stirring part and rotatably disposed at one side of an upper portion of the support frame to rotate the stirring part, and a control part configured to control the heating part, the spray part, and the driving part.

A cathode material integrated processing device, which dries, applies, and heat-treats a cathode material, according to an embodiment of the invention includes a support frame, a chamber part including a cylindrical body configured to accommodate the cathode material and a thick plate coupled to each of both ends of the cylindrical body to seal both the ends of the cylindrical body and configured to fix the cylindrical body to an upper portion of the support frame, a heating part disposed in close proximity to each of the outside the cylindrical body and the outside the thick plate of the chamber part to heat the chamber part, a spray part including one or more nozzles, which is disposed between an upper portion and one side of the cylindrical body of the chamber part and is inserted in a longitudinal direction of the cylindrical body to spray a coating liquid to the cathode material within the chamber part through a gas, a stirring part rotatably disposed inside the cylindrical body of the chamber part to stir the cathode material within the chamber part, a driving part connected to one side of the stirring part and rotatably disposed at one side of an upper portion of the support frame to rotate the stirring part, and a control part configured to control the heating part, the spray part, and the driving part.