Abstract:
An advanced water treatment method processes a continuous flow of water in a sequence of stages including pre-filtering to remove solids, conditioning to adjust pH, blending with a recycled dense microalgae culture, and passing the resulting mixture through an enclosed, environmentally-controlled photobioreactor where nutrients, PCB's, trace metals and other pollutants and regulated compounds are taken up by the algae. The flow from the PBR is separated using cross-flow filtration to produce a treated water flow and a dense microalgae flow that is recycled to the blending stage upstream. Thus, whereas the algae is recycled, the water entering the system is treated by flowing sequentially through the stages of the system, without any recycling or repetition of treatment stages.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for removing arsenic as scorodite from solutions that contain iron and arsenic. In accordance with the method, arsenic is first precipitated as ferric arsenate and subsequently processed hydrothermally into crystalline scorodite.
Abstract:
Die vorliegende Erfindung betrifft Verfahren zur Herstellung von im Wesentlichen unverkohlten, magnetisierten Fruchtkernen , welches die folgenden Schritte umfasst: a) Bereitstellen von Fruchtkernen die im Wesentlichen unverkohlt sind; b)Bereitstellen von magnetischen Nanopartikeln; c) Vermahlen der Fruchtkerne aus Schritt a); d) Erstellen eines Verbunds der magnetischen Nanopartikel aus Schritt b) und der Fruchtkerne aus Schritt c). Weiterhin betrifft die Erfindung die im Wesentlichen unverkohlten, magnetisierten Fruchtkerne und deren Verwendung zur Entfernung von Schadstoffen aus Wasser.
Abstract:
A method in which an anode chamber equipped with an anode and a cathode chamber equipped with a cathode are separated by a cation exchange membrane, an acid solution containing metal ions is introduced into the anode chamber, a cathode solution is introduced into the cathode chamber, and a current is applied across the anode and the cathode, whereby the metal ions in the solution in the anode chamber are caused to pass through the cation exchange membrane, move into the cathode solution, and precipitate as metal onto the cathode, wherein there are minimal instances where electrodeposition is impossible or the electrodeposition rate decreases as caused by concentration-diffusion of the acid from the acid solution in the anode chamber into the cathode solution through the cation exchange membrane, and a decrease in the pH of the cathode solution. Pre-adding a salt of the acid contained in the acid solution introduced into the anode chamber to the cathode solution introduced into the cathode chamber makes it possible to suppress concentration-diffusion of the acid from the acid solution in the anode chamber into the cathode solution through the cation exchange membrane. Adding a salt of the acid into the cathode chamber makes it possible also to reduce the impressed voltage, reduce the amount of hydrogen generated on the cathode, and reduce the amount of power.
Abstract:
A process for treating sulphate containing effluent, which includes receiving a sulphide containing effluent into a two-phase fluidised bed reactor containing particles and floating media, permitting calcium carbonate from the effluent to precipitate on particles in the first fluidised bed reactor, aerating the solution in the reactor to remove CO2 from the solution, thereby to increase the pH in the reactor, permitting biological sulphide oxidation to occur on the floating media by means of sulphide oxidizing bacteria thereby to produce elemental sulphur, recycling the fluidised bed reactor at a sufficient rate to effect abrasion to remove elemental sulphur from the floating media, harvesting the sulphur from a top portion of the reactor, recycling hydroxyl ions internally in solution in to enhance calcium carbonate precipitation by further increasing the pH.
Abstract:
An objective of invention is conveniently concentrating a metal in a metal ion-containing solution with high efficiency and to recover the metal from the metal ion-containing solution with high recovery efficiency. A method for concentrating or recovering a metal in a metal ion-containing solution in the present invention is the method comprising the following steps, a reduction and accumulation step to reduce the metal ion into a metal fine particle and also to accumulate the metal fine particle in the microorganism by allowing the microorganism and an electron donor B to act on a metal ion-containing solution W 0 and thus to obtain a solution W 1 that contains a microorganism having a metal fine particle accumulated therein; a concentration step to concentrate the solution W 1 that contains the microorganism having a metal fine particle accumulated therein by a filtration membrane and thus to obtain a concentrated solution W 2 ; and a return step to return the concentrated solution W 2 to first step above and thus to circulate. Further, A device for metal concentration or recovering in the present invention comprises the following: a storage unit 2 to store the solution W 1 , a concentration unit 3 to concentrate the solution W 1 that is transferred from the storage unit 2 by a filtration membrane, and a return unit 4 to return a concentrated solution W 2 that is concentrated in the concentration unit 3 to the storage unit 2.
Abstract:
A low cost method for treating water, which will be used in an industrial process, is provided. A method of the invention generally includes collecting water and storing it in at least one containing means. Within periods of 7 days, the redox potential of the water is maintained at at least 500 mV for a minimum amount of time t, wherein t = 1 hour if the temperature T is at least 70°C, t (hours) = (70-T) if 35
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for removing arsenic as scorodite from solutions that contain iron and arsenic. In accordance with the method, arsenic is first precipitated as ferric arsenate and subsequently processed hydrothermally into crystalline scorodite.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for decreasing the contents of metals, metalloids, nitrate and nitrite, respectively, in raw water flowing through a basin (1), whereby water containing either oxygen, oxygen-releasing substances, naturally occurring micro-organisms and/or substrates therefore is intermittently introduced to the basin (1) through horizontally arranged infiltration/extraction means (2) above and below the injection pipes of raw water, and by alternating the withdrawal and infiltration of conditioned water between the horizontal means so that essentially a vertical flow of water is created between these means, thereby creating a reaction zone for purification of raw water before it reaches the central extraction well. The water to be purified is fed into the basin by horizontally arranged feeding pipes (5) and the extraction of purified water from said at least one extraction well (3) is such that a substantially negative pressure is created around said at least one extraction well (3). The invention relates also to an apparatus for carrying out the method.