Abstract:
A process for the partial desalination of water with a combination of weakly acid cation exchangers in free acid form and basic anion exchangers in hydrogen carbonate form, both present in aqueous suspensions, and subsequent regeneration of the charged ion exchanger material. The partial desalination is effected with a combination or mixture of a weakly acid cation exchanger material and a basic anion exchanger material. Depending on the combination or mixing ratio of the two exchangers, non-equivalent quantities of neutral salt cations and anions are removed from the water. The regeneration of both exchangers together is effected exclusively with the aid of CO.sub.2.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a process and an apparatus for continuously extracting ions from a clear liquid or a liquid containing materials in suspension, by means of a bed of grains of exchange substances.The process comprises maintaining the bed in a permanent condition of fluidization by an absolutely continuous feed of liquid, and subjecting the bed to cyclic pulsation phenomena in such a way as to ensure grading of the grains on the basis of density, in dependence on their ion charge. To carry out that process, an apparatus comprises a fluidization column which does not have any plate capable of interfering with the grading operation, a pulsation generator which operates by taking off liquid at the top of the column and re-injecting it in a surge manner at the base of the bed, and a system for centrifuging the liquid to be treated, for removing the sandy materials therefrom.This process and apparatus are used when there is a wish to extract any type of anions or cations or exchangeable salts, in an absolutely continuous mode of operation, from clear liquids or liquids containing materials in suspension, by means of mineral exchange substances or resins, to avoid the problems of clogging and abrasion, and to achieve the maximum extraction capacity and rate.
Abstract:
Apparatus and operating method improvements are provided for an ion exchange apparatus system utilizing moving folded beds for loading and regeneration of the resin. The improvements include separate treatment and pulse chambers in the resin circuit from the loading column to the regeneration column, and in the return circuit from the regeneration column to the loading column. With the improved apparatus and method, the resin is transferred in compacted metered increments from and into the loading and regeneration columns.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an apparatus for treatment of particulate mixtures such as a mixture of solid particles, which is to be depleted in, enriched by or treated with a fluid, or wherein the mixture acts as a treatment medium for a fluid passing through same. The apparatus is of the type operating with an advancing bed of the particulate material. It utilizes walls permeable by at least a portion of the fluid. The apparatus is of the type of tubular, rectangular or the like vessel having only stationary parts and subdivided by a selected combination of permeable and non-permeable walls into separate chambers into or from which the fluid can be delivered or removed. The movement of the particulate mixture is effected solely by forcing same through a passage having preferably but not exclusively an annular chamber, by pumping, by gravity or by a combination of both. Additional throttling or valve means are employed to selectively control the advancement of the bed through the device. The device is simple in structure and can be relatively easily adjusted for a great variety of different operations, from plain filtering to a complex washing or treatment of the particulate bed with different liquids in order to extract desired matter from the raw bed.
Abstract:
The invention relates to contact-making between a gas phase, at least one liquid phase, and at least one comminuted solid phase.The process uses a cell or compartment provided with at least one deflecting means such as the sloping wall 3 designed to impart an overall circulatory motion to the solid phase and with gas phase distributor 1, supplying this compartment with solid products, supplying this compartment with a liquid phase so as to cover entirely the solid when at rest, and feeding the compartment with the gas phase through the distributor 1 for the purpose of generating in said compartment a periodic pulsing stage consisting of gas-phase decompressions and layer contractions.The invention permits achieving an intimate contact between three distinct phases for the purpose of transfer(s) or of reaction(s) between these phases.
Abstract:
Process for producing fully desalted process water by the treatment of raw water with cation and anion exchangers in a separate multi-stage arrangement. The water which leaves the main cation exchanger stage or stages, has a residual sodium content of less than 0.5 mg Na/l before entering the anion exchange stage. Such water is fed through a strong acid cation exchanger stage, in which the exchanger material is present at a maximum of 50 percent as a suspended bed and the remainder as a solid bed. The exchanger material in the strong acid cation exchanger stage following the first strong acid cation exchanger stage, is present at a maximum of 25 percent as a suspended bed and the remainder as a solid bed.
Abstract translation:通过在单独的多级布置中用阳离子和阴离子交换剂处理原水来生产完全脱盐的工艺用水的方法。 离开主阳离子交换阶段或阶段的水在进入阴离子交换阶段之前的残留钠含量小于0.5mg Na / l。 这种水通过强酸阳离子交换阶段进料,其中交换剂材料以最多50%的量作为悬浮床存在,其余的作为固体床。 在第一强酸阳离子交换阶段之后的强酸阳离子交换阶段的交换剂材料以最大25%的量存在作为悬浮床,其余的作为固体床存在。
Abstract:
A process for absorbing ions of interest onto ion exchange resin particles from a feed liquor containing ions which when absorbed on said particles cause the density of the particles to increase. The process comprises the steps of(1) flowing the feed liquor upwardly through a main bed of ion exchange resin particles contained in a main chamber of an absorption column and thereby maintaining the bed in fluidized state;(2) continuously collecting the denser loaded particles from the lower region of the absorption column;(3) passing an outflow of the feed liquor from the upper region of the main chamber upwardly into the lower region of the polishing chamber containing a secondary bed of fluidized ion exchange resin particles whereby residual ions of interest are polished from the liquor, and(4) producing a barren liquor flowing out of the upper region of the polishing chamber.
Abstract:
A flow distributor for a fluid bed reactor includes means for decreasing velocity of incoming liquid streams in a uniform, non-turbulent fashion. Inlet ports communicate with fluid portals having divergent walls to slow incoming flow. The fluid portals feed liquid flow to a plurality of diffusing flow paths provided between diffusion baffles positioned at the bottom of the reactor. The diffusion baffles may be prismatic shapes which are trapezoidal in cross-section with the broadest horizontal dimension at the bottom thereof. The diffusion flow paths therefore have divergent walls and act to further slow the liquid flow passing therethrough.
Abstract:
A process of the operation of simulated moving bed is disclosed in which said bed is packed with a solid sorbent and provided with a plurality of pipes acting as a feed stock inlet, a desorbent inlet, a sorbed component outlet and a non-sorbed component outlet and the upstream end and the downstream end of the bed are interconnected to form a loop path, and a fluid containing the sorbed component and the non-sorbed component, and a desorbent are supplied to the bed and the sorbed component and the non-sorbed component separated are recovered. An improvement comprises the flow rate of the fluid is controlled on the basis of the concentration distribution of the sorbed and the non-sorbed components whereby the separated components are recovered in high purity and in constant composition.
Abstract:
Trivalent chromium, zinc, hexavalent chromate and molybdate can be removed from a fluid by contacting the fluid with an ion exchange resin bed comprising a mixture of a weak base anion exchange resin and a weak or strong acid cation exchange resin in hydrogen form to remove the metal values.