摘要:
A sorbent composition comprising a vanadium compound and a TiO 2 support material is disclosed. Methods of making and using the composition to rem heavy metals or heavy metal containing compounds from a fluid stream are also provided. Such methods are particularly useful in the removal of mercury and merc compounds from flue gas streams produced from the combustion of hydrocarbon-containing materials such as coal and petroleum fuels.
摘要:
Method for removal of heavy metal ions from aqueous wastes, which are produced during electroplating and other industrial processes. The method comprises a precipitation process that is conducted in a magnetic field.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a product for, and a method of, treating gases, fumes and vapours with fragments of crustacean shell so as to extract one or more components/pollutants from the gases.
摘要:
A process for the treatment of waste water containing heavy metals is disclosed in which sulphur components and/or metals are biologically reduced to precipitate the metals as water-insoluble metal species, which are separated from the waste water. The biological reduction and the precipitation of the metal species are carried out in a moving sand bed, in which sand particles partly immobilise the bacteria and retain the precipitated metal species, treated waste water is separated from the precipitated metal species, and the precipitated metal species are subsequently separated from the sand particles. Metals like selenium and uranium can be precipitated without sulphur components, whereas metals like antimony, cadmium, copper, zinc and the like are precipitated as sulphides.
摘要:
A method for removing pollutants from water, according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of providing algal spores for seeding, providing a source of water for flowing through a floway, and the water contains a quantity of pollutants and has a pH on entry into said floway, providing a growing surface in the floway upon which the algal spores form an attachment, subjecting the algal spores in the floway to operating conditions resulting in the formation of an algal turf in which the algae has cell walls on its surface, adjusting the floway operating conditions such that a predetermined pollutant precipitates onto and/or into the algal cell walls but not into the water, and harvesting a portion of the algal turf including the cell walls onto and/or into which the pollutants have precipitated. By control of such floway operating conditions as water flow rate, light level, intensity and wavelength, water surge rate, recirculation rate, and nutrient concentrations, the pH of the water adjacent the algal cell wall is caused to increase to a level at which the desired pollutants precipitate. Since the operating conditions are carefully adjusted to allow the pH of the water to remain below the pH level normally required for precipitation, precipitation of the pollutants occurs only onto and/or into the algal cell wall, and not into the water column as a whole. No precipitation occurs in the water because its pH does not rise to the pH at which the pollutants of interest precipitate.
摘要:
A process of selectively separating a target metal contained in a solid matrix from the solid matrix by contacting the solid matrix containing a target metal with an aqueous solution including a water-soluble polymer adapted for complexation with the target metal for sufficient time whereby a water-soluble polymer-target metal complex is formed, and separating the solution including the water-soluble polymer-target metal complex from the solid matrix. The figure illustrates the process, wherein a metal containing feed solution is fed via line (1) to a solution of water soluble polymer in tank (2). A reaction mixture is conveyed via line (3), pump (4) and line (5) to separation device (6) which is preferably an ultrafilter. The separation is mormally accompanied by recirculating the mixture through the membrane device having a throttle valve (7) in line (8) to maintain a pressure of less than 60 psi in the membrane unit. Effluent in line (9) is free of the target metal.
摘要:
A method to detoxify municipal sewage sludge containing heavy metals comprises the steps of mixing in a vessel (12) sewage sludge, at least one catalytic oxidant (24) such as a ferric salt, at least one regenerative oxidant through a pump (36) and an acid (16) to form a reacting slurry having a solids fraction and a liquid fraction and, after a suitable retention time, separating the solids fraction from the liquid fraction. The reacting slurry is maintained during its retention time at pH range between approximately 1.0 to 2.0 and at an oxidation reduction potential of, at least, +400 millivolts. The heavy metals originally absorbed into the solids fraction of the sewage sludge solubilize into the liquid fraction of the reacting slurry. Thereafter, the reacting slurry is discharged into a conventional solids/liquid separating device (42) so that the metal-laden liquid fraction becomes separated from the solids fraction which is now substantially barren of heavy metals. The solids fraction is neutralized to a pH prescribed by EPA regulations so that it can be safely applied to agricultural land as a detoxified fertilizer and soil conditioner.
摘要:
A sorbent composition comprising a vanadium compound and a TiO 2 support material is disclosed. Methods of making and using the composition to rem heavy metals or heavy metal containing compounds from a fluid stream are also provided. Such methods are particularly useful in the removal of mercury and merc compounds from flue gas streams produced from the combustion of hydrocarbon-containing materials such as coal and petroleum fuels.
摘要:
Method for removal of heavy metal ions from aqueous wastes, which are produced during electroplating and other industrial processes. The method comprises a precipitation process that is conducted in a magnetic field.
摘要:
The disclosed invention is a fixed bed ion exchange water purification system. It employs a combination of electronically controlled process steps and specific systems configurations to duplicate the effects of moving resin beds from one operating position to another as is required in moving bed ion exchange water purification systems. The invention combines features of single fixed bed ion exchange systems with those of a moving bed system. The invention applies to the treatment of water having typical industrial and drinking water concentrations of various ions, particularly nitrate and/or arsenic.