Abstract:
The present invention relates to a transportable apparatus for water treatment. More particularly, the apparatus is destined to be fully automated and provide drinkable water quality to small-size municipalities. The apparatus is connected to a raw water source and comprises, within its own transportable housing, all the necessary components to treat water. The water treatment process requires the use of various water treatment stages to gradually purify the water source, involving a series of filters and in a preferred embodiment, uses ozone as a disinfectant.
Abstract:
The present invention provides compositions including a mixture containing sulfides and/or polysulfides of ammonium, sodium, potassium, lithium, etc., gold and/or compounds of gold, copper and/or compunds of copper, silver and/or compounds of silver, sulfur or potassium tri-iodide, and ammonium nitrate, ammonium sulfate, ammonium acetate, ammonium formate, ammonium thiosulfate, ammonium peroxy sulfate, sulfuric acid, zinc chlride, phosphoric acid, or its ammonium and alkali salts and mixtures thereof, and polyhydroxy organic compounds such as glycerol, mono and di saccharides such as glucose, fructose, sucrose, molasses, lactose, polysaccharides and derivatives thereof and mixtures threreof in which the polyhydroxy compound is utilized as a sorbent precursor and the first group of inorganic salt or mixture thereof is utilized to impart the specificity for mercury removal into the said generated sorbent and the second group of inorganic salt or the mixture thereof is utilized as a catalyst to generate the sorbent at low temperatures, say above 200null F. into combustion gases produced from the combustion of fossil and derived fuels, for the removal of mercury and/or other pollutants present in such gases. The polyhydroxy compound alone or in conjunction with the first group of inorganic salt and mixtures thereof mentioned above is also shown effective to generate the special sorbent having the unique properties to remove mercury and/or other pollutants from the said gas stream. The aforementioned composition can be mixed with fly ash, clays of various types, silica, alumina, titania, zirconia or mixtures thereof for the removal of mercury and/or other pollutants present in combustion gas streams. Methods are provided for applying and generating the above mentioned sorbent in the flue gases of fossil and derived fuel fired systems and waste and municipal incinerators for controlling the emissions of mercury and/or dioxin contained in such gas streams.
Abstract:
Sorbent compositions for the removal of sulfur from cracked-gasoline and diesel fuels are prepared by the impregnation of a sorbent support comprising zinc oxide, expanded perlite, and alumina with a promotor metal followed by reduction of the valence of the promotor metal in the resulting promotor metal sorbent support composition.
Abstract:
An adsorbent of high-mobility-group proteins (HMG protein) which can remove HMG protein in body fluid is disclosed. The adsorbent according to the present invention comprises a water-insoluble carrier on which (a) substance(s) having (a) hydrogen-bondable functional group(s) and/or (a) hydrophobic functional group(s) is(are) immobilized.
Abstract:
A particulate absorbent, for the absorption of liquids, comprising particles selected from the group consisting of particles of glass-like polysaccharides and of particles of glass-like polysaccharides occluding, in their internal structure, at least one surfactant, said particles: having a size of up to 620 nullm; being at least 70% of a glass-like type structure; and being: 30 to 45% of a size comprised between 620 and 420 nullm; 35 to 55% of a size comprised between 420 and 210 nullm; and 5 to 25% of a size up to 210 nullm. These particulate absorbent is non-hygroscopic, hypoallergenic and biodegradable and useful particularly in biodegradable diapers.
Abstract:
A purifying device comprising a purifying tank (1) having an ultraviolet radiating tube (2) installed within the middle thereof and a submersible pump (3) mounted in the upper region thereof, the purifying tank being held 5 to 100 cm below the water level by floats (7a), a partition (6) to divide the region adjacent to the water level into upper and lower levels, wherein only the water on the upper side of the partition (6) is sucked in by the submersible pump (3) for purification in the purifying tank (1), whereby water-bloom, algae or the like floating on water is rapidly collected and decomposed for removal.
Abstract:
A UV-assisted advanced-ozonation water treatment system comprises a water treating tank 1, an ozonic water tank 2, an ozonized gas generator 3, and a UV light source 4 disposed in the water treating tank 1 and having a UV-radiating surface 4a, and an ozonic water jetting device including jetting nozzles 5 for jetting the ozonic water onto the UV-radiating surface of the UV light source. An ozonized gas diffusing device 12 is placed in the ozonic water tank 2. An ozonized gas generated by the ozonized gas generator 3 and compressed by a compressor 13 at a pressure in the range of about 2 to about 3 kg/cm2 is diffused into the ozonic water tank 2 by the ozonized gas diffusing device 12. A high-pressure, a high-ozone-concentration ozonic water produced in the ozonized water tank 2 is jetted through the jetting nozzles 5 onto the UV-radiating surface 4a.
Abstract translation:紫外线辅助先进臭氧化水处理系统包括设置在水处理槽1中的水处理槽1,臭氧水箱2,臭氧化气体发生器3和UV光源4,并具有UV辐射表面4a 以及包括用于将臭氧水喷射到UV光源的UV辐射表面上的喷射喷嘴5的臭氧水喷射装置。 将臭氧化气体扩散装置12放置在臭氧水箱2中。由臭氧化气体发生器3产生并由压缩机13在约2至约3kg / cm 2的压力下压缩的臭氧化气体为 通过臭氧化气体扩散装置12将其扩散到臭氧水箱2.将臭氧水箱2中产生的高压,高臭氧浓度的臭氧水通过喷射喷嘴5喷射到UV辐射表面4a上。
Abstract:
A description is given of a structured packing for a column for carrying out a distillation or reactive distillation which is formed from a three-dimensional body which substantially completely fills the column cross section and which was obtained from two or more differently structured webs of a nonwoven material by winding up or laying one on top of the other and is chemically and mechanically stable under the processing conditions of distillation or reactive distillation.
Abstract:
An enhanced material formed from a carrier material having a high porosity. The carrier material is treated with a mixture of hydrocarbons to increase the adherence of the carrier material particles to one another to minimize atmospheric contamination of the carrier materials in use. The material has particular applicable to environments where such contamination would create problems, such as food processing and preparation environments, computer operations, electronic component manufacturing and other environments. The material meets the requirements of FDA regulations for Indirect Food Contact.
Abstract:
A catalyst development engine for providing a rapid approach to the rational development of scalable heterogeneous catalysts and of high-performance solid materials. The catalyst development engine includes three main components: the high-throughput data generation cycle, the knowledge generation cycle, and the knowledge repository or database. The high-throughput data generation cycle rapidly generates high quality data in a high-throughput mode for the virtual and experimental evaluation of new catalytic materials and also generates data on well-characterized systems for use in the knowledge generation cycle. The knowledge generation cycle generates working hypotheses, relating performance to key catalyst properties, which guide the search for better catalysts, and generates fundamental structure-property relationships required in order to select catalysts for further experimental evaluation in the high-throughput cycle. Both cycles run concurrently with the theoretical and experimental modules highly integrated. Catalyst synthesis modules use methods such as impregnation, precipitation, and others. Catalyst evaluation is done free of transport limitations to generate kinetic data which can be used in the knowledge cycle. Such an approach accelerates development and scale-up of new materials without the impediments introduced by conventional combinatorial approaches based on randomly selected materials prepared under unrealistic and difficult to scale up conditions.