Process for removing carbon particles from water

Claim 1

IN A PROCESS FOR SEPARATING DISPESED CARBON PARTICLES FROM WATER CONTAMINATED WITH FROM .01 TO 10% CARBON BY WEIGHT, WHEREIN THERE IS INTRODUCED INTO SAID CONTAMINATED WATER AT LEAST 2 PARTS BY WEIGHT OF A WATERIMMISCIBLE ORGANIC SOLVENT PER PART OF SAID CARBON PARTICLES, SAID SOLVENT HAVING A LESSER DENSITY THAN WATER AND WETTING SAID CARBON PARTICLES PERFERENTIALLY TO WATER, THE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT FOR SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETLY FREEING SAID WATER OF CARBON CONTAMINATION, COMPRISING MIXING SAID SOLVENT WITH SAID CONTAIMINATED WATER AND INTIMATELY CONTACTING SAID SOLVENT WITH SAID CARBON PARTICLES UNTIL THE RESULTING MIXTURE IS SUBSTANTIALLY HOMOGENOUS, PASSING THE HOMOGENOUS MIXTURE THUS OBTAINED INTO A RADIALLY-EXTENDING ENCLOSED SPACE BEING ROTATED ABOUT AN AXIS TO PROVIDE A CENTRIFUGAL FORCE FIELD, SAID MIXTURE BEING INTRODUCED INTO SAID SPACE AT A RADIALLY INTERMEDIATE POSITION WITH RESPECT TO THE INNER AND OUTER BOUNDARIES OF SAID SPACE, REMOVING SAID CARBON PARTICLS AS A FLUID PASTE AT A POSITION RADIALLY INWARD FROM SAID MIXTURE INTRODUCTION POSITION, AND REMOVING WATER CONTAINING LESS THAN 250 PARTS PER MILLION OF CARBON PARTICLES FROM POSITION ADJACENT THE OUTER BOUNDARY OF SAID SPACE.