Abstract:
A method for removing magnesium and calcium from sodium sulfate solutions to render the solutions suitable for membrane processing, which comprises adjusting the pH of the solutions to about 11 to 13 with sodium hydroxide to form a precipitate containing the bulk of the magnesium and the calcium, removing the precipitate from the resulting partially purified sodium sulfate solution, and contacting the partially purified sodium sulfate solution with a polystyrene divinyl benzene copolymer chelating cation exchange resin having an aminophosphonic functional group and having sodium as the exchangeable cation, to remove essentially all of the magnesium and the calcium from the partially purified sodium sulfate solution.
Abstract:
The invention has composition of matter and process aspects. The composition of matter aspect relates to the compounds selected from the class consisting of: ##STR1## in which Silica is sand or silica gel. The process aspect involves the use of any of these compounds packed in a column through which a solution of the multiple ions is flowed to complex with the compound and separate a desired selected ion from a multiple ion solution, breaking the complex by flowing a receiving liquid through the column to free the desired ion and recovering the freed desired ion from the receiving liquid.
Abstract translation:本发明具有物质和方法的组成。 物质组成方面涉及从以下类别中选出的化合物: 低级烷基,芳基; X = CH 3或烷氧基或Cl或O-二氧化硅; Y = O或CH 2; a = 1-16 + RE,其中二氧化硅为砂或硅胶。 方法方面涉及使用填充在柱中的任何这些化合物,多个离子的溶液通过该混合物流动以与化合物复合并从多离子溶液中分离所需的选定离子,通过使接收液体流动来破坏络合物 通过柱以释放所需离子并从接收液中回收所释放的所需离子。
Abstract:
A product comprising, a water insoluble lignin material, at neutral or acid pH, having chemically bound a sulfur(S) content from at least 9.5%, and a phosphorus(P) content from 3.3 to 10%. At least 50% by weight of the S and P content is thiophosphate. In said lignin material the mole ratio S/P is at least 1.8 that of S to aromatic unit (S/Ar) is greater than 0.7, and the P/Ar ratio is from 0.3 to 0.8. The lignin material has chelating capacities for gold at pH 2 of at least 2.2 millimoles per gram of lignin material. On IR analysis the lignin material has infra-red absorption bands evidencing P.dbd.S, P--S or Ar--S, P--O--Ar, aromatic, CH.sub.2 --S, and P--O--C groups in the vicinity of 730-750, 640-670, 1080-1110, 1490-1510, 820-845, and 965-995 cm.sup.-1, respectively. In the absence of interferring IR bands, the sum of the intensity of the bands in the vicinity of 640-670 cm.sup.-1 and 730-750 cm.sup.-1 over the intensity of the band in the vicinity of 1080-1110 cm.sup.-1 is greater than 1. The product, substantially free from unbound sulfur, may be used in chelation, floatation processes, as flame retardant, and for agricultural uses. A method of making the above comprises heating a lignin product with at least an exact equivalent molar ratio of phosphorus pentasulfide (P.sub.4 S.sub.10). The reaction product must be specially treated to recover it.
Abstract:
A method of removing heavy metals from aqueous solution, a composition of matter used in effecting said removal, and apparatus used in effecting said removal. One or more of the polypeptides, poly (.gamma.-glutamylcysteinyl)glycines, is immobilized on an inert material in particulate form. Upon contact with an aqueous solution containing heavy metals, the polypeptides sequester the metals, removing them from the solution. There is selectivity of poly (.gamma.-glutamylcysteinyl)glycines having a particular number of monomer repeat units for particular metals. The polypeptides are easily regenerated by contact with a small amount of an organic acid, so that they can be used again to remove heavy metals from solution. This also results in the removal of the metals from the column in a concentrated form.
Abstract:
Gold is selectively extracted from an aqueous solution by contacting the gold-containing solution, which may contain other metals, with a resin which is a diallylamine homopolymer or copolymer, and then separating the resin from the solution.
Abstract:
An improved process for the recovery of precious metal values is disclosed. By this process precious metals in the form of anionic complexes are contacted with a weak-base anion exchange resin capable of complexing with the anionic complex. Such weak-base anion exchange resins contain weak-base functionalities derived from linear or cyclic polyaminoalkylene amines which have more than 1 amine moiety and at least 3 carbon atoms in a 1,X-alkylene moiety or moieties separating at least 1 amine moiety from a second amine moiety (i.e., X is an integer greater than 2).
Abstract:
A process for the production of a solid, particulate immobilized extractant, which process comprises adsorbing (a) a liquid extractant which is not homopolymerizable onto (b) a porous, solid, particulate, substrate; adsorbing (c) a monomer onto the substrate; and polymerizing the adsorbed monomer (c) thereby entrapping the liquid extractant (a) on substrate (b).
Abstract:
The copolymers are effective in stabilizing iron in solution and as antiscalants in the presence of soluble iron, the copolymers are used in amount of 1 to 200 ppm, have molecular weight of about 1,000 to 50,000, and are prepared by polymerizing 40 to 95 weight parts of an acrylic acid with 5 to 60 weight parts of a substituted acrylamide.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to insoluble compositions, which are capable of removing metal (e.g. selectively) from solution (e.g. Fe.sup.3+ from a liquid nutrient medium so as to lower the Fe.sup.3+ content to less than 0.1 .mu.M); the insoluble compositions comprise: a suitable insoluble carrier and organic co-ordinating sites covalently fixed to the surface of said carrier, said co-ordinating sites being capable of chelating Fe.sup.3+, Th.sup.4+ and/or UO.sub.2.sup.2+.
Abstract:
There is disclosed novel copper ion-exchange media and processes for the recovery of cupric ion from ammoniacal copper solutions and for the recovery of spent printed circuit board etchant. The novel ion-exchange media comprise hydrophobic nonporous polymer plasticized and swollen with a monomeric organic liquid copper ion-exchange agent such as beta-diketones or hydroxyoximes. A novel copper ion-complexing agent, 1-n-octylphenyl-p-1,3-butanedione, is also disclosed. The processes essentially comprise contacting the ammoniacal cupric ion-containing solution or spent etchant with the novel copper ion-exchange media to extract copper in cupric ion form. Copper can be recovered therefrom by conventional methods such as acid stripping and electrowinning.