Bio-inspired method for advanced industrial sludge treatment with closed cycle drying process

The article describes a new bio-inspired process for the Advanced Treatment of Industrial Sludge with a Closed Cycle Drying Process (TAFIPACC).This process represents an innovation in the way of treating sludge and other shovellable residues deriving from machining and widespread industrial processes in the largest industrial installations, such as refineries, steel mills, chemical plants, glass processing installations, cosmetics manufacturing facilities, pharmaceutical manufacturing plants, paper mills. The process starts from the use of mixers in the production of concrete, and makes a thermal contribution to the material during mixing stage, thus separating part of these substances directing them to an integrated process of fractional distillation. The article introduces "clean-up" as a new process through an innovative stage of evaporation and distillation in a closed cycle which is able to separate and collect pollutants and volatile components that would be otherwise dispersed into the atmosphere as in the case of more traditional methods of open-cycle sludge drying.