METHOD USING ADSORBENT
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    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240165582A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-23

    申请号:US18274788

    申请日:2022-01-28

    摘要: An object of the present invention is to provide a novel method of recovering a metal and/or a metal ion from a liquid to be treated, by use of a monolith adsorbent, and a novel method of regenerating an adsorbent used in the method of recovering a metal and/or a metal ion from a liquid to be treated, and, in order to achieve the object, the present invention provides a method of recovering a metal and/or a metal ion, the method including the following steps of:



    (1) preparing for a solution containing a metal and/or a metal ion;
    (2) preparing for an adsorbent having a co-continuous structure formed by: a ceramic skeleton including mesopores; and macropores, wherein a surface of the ceramic skeleton is modified by a metal- and/or metal ion-adsorbable functional group, a most frequent pore diameter of the macropores before modification by the functional group is 0.20 μm or more and 4.0 μm or less, and a most frequent pore diameter of the mesopores before modification by the functional group is 2.0 nm or more and 50 nm or less;
    (3) contacting the solution and the adsorbent;
    (4) contacting the adsorbent subjected to step (3) and an acidic solution; and
    (5) recovering the metal and/or the metal ion from the acidic solution subjected to step (4).

    APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING SOL, GEL AND SILICA POROUS BODY

    公开(公告)号:US20240166524A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-23

    申请号:US18274615

    申请日:2022-01-28

    摘要: An object of the present invention is to provide apparatuses and methods, in which solation of a mixed liquid can be allowed to progress under sufficiently controlled conditions with the mixed liquid being effectively cooled, to thereby industrially produce a homogeneous sol, and then sol-gel transition with a phase separation process can be induced, to produce a gel having a co-continuous structure of a skeleton phase and a solvent phase and to produce a silica porous body having macropores. According to one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a sol producing apparatus (1) that produces a sol for use in production of a silica porous body having macropores, the sol producing apparatus (1) including a mixing section (11) that prepares a mixed liquid (M) containing a silica precursor, a catalyst and a macropore forming agent, a first feeding section (12) that feeds the silica precursor to the mixing section (11), a second feeding section (13A) that feeds the catalyst and the macropore forming agent in admixture with each other, to the mixing section (11), a discharging pipe (14) that discharges the mixed liquid (M) from the mixing section (11), and a cooling section (15) that cools the mixed liquid (M) flowing through the discharging pipe (14), to 35° C. or less.