16934results about "Contaminated soil reclamation" patented technology

A stable continuous method for producing ethanol from the anaerobic bacterial fermentation of a gaseous substrate containing at least one reducing gas involves culturing a fermentation bioreactor anaerobic, acetogenic bacteria in a liquid nutrient medium; supplying the gaseous substrate to the bioreactor; and manipulating the bacteria in the bioreactor by reducing the redox potential, or increasing the NAD(P)H TO NAD(P) ratio, in the fermentation broth after the bacteria achieves a steady state and stable cell concentration in the bioreactor. The free acetic acid concentration in the bioreactor is maintained at less than 5 g/L free acid. This method allows ethanol to be produced in the fermentation broth in the bioreactor at a productivity greater than 10 g/L per day. Both ethanol and acetate are produced in a ratio of ethanol to acetate ranging from 1:1 to 20:1.

Freeze wells may be used to isolate an area for soil remediation. Freeze wells may form a frozen barrier around a treatment area. The frozen barrier may inhibit fluid from entering into the treatment area. The frozen barrier may also inhibit migration of contamination out of the treatment area. The frozen barrier may be used to surround all of the perimeter of the treatment area. A frozen barrier may also be formed above or below a treatment area. Freeze wells may be activated in advance of soil remediation so that a frozen barrier is formed when soil remediation is begun. The soil remediation may be accomplished by any type of soil remediation system, including a thermal soil remediation system. Heaters of a thermal soil remediation system may be may be placed close to the frozen barrier without the barrier being broken through during remediation.

Methods and systems for a subsurface upflow wetland for wastewater treatment that includes a series of parallel treatment cells, each cell including from bottom to top, a layer of gravel, a layer of sand over the gravel to remove pathogens from a septic effluent, a pollution control medium above the sand layer to remove nutrients, total suspended solid, and biochemical oxygen demand and a growth media mixture layered on top of the pollution control media to grow plants, and a gravity distribution system to distribute effluent to the series of parallel treatment cells. The pollution control medium includes at least one recycled material and at least one naturally occurring material. In an embodiment it includes recycled tire crumb, sand and limestone or recycled tire crumb, compost, sand and limestone.

The invention discloses ion mineralization stabilizer for treating soil with heavy metal pollution and an application method thereof. The ion mineralization stabilizer comprises, by weight percent, 5-30% of sulfur-based compound, 10-50% of phosphor-based compound, 10-50% of calcium-based compound, and 10-30% of silicon-based compound. The materials are respectively ground into powders with particle size not less than 200 meshes, and the powders are proportionally mixed well. The application method of the ion mineralization stabilizer for treating soil with heavy metal pollution includes: detecting arsenic content and leaching toxicity of the soil to be treated, placing the ion mineralization stabilizers in different proportions on the surface of the soil to be treated according to pollution level, well mixing to form mixed soil by ploughing and stirring, adding water to keep the water content of the mixed soil no less than 25%, covering the mixed soil with moisturizing material, curing for at least 5 days to keep heavy metals in the mixed soil to form stable minerals.

A process for in-situ remediation of contaminated soil in which at least one treating agent is introduced into the contaminated soil and transported to an underground in-situ treatment zone of the contaminated soil by a foam-based fluid.

The invention provides a system for restoring organic contaminated soil through in-situ electrical heating. The system comprises an infrastructure technology, an electronic control system, a gas treatment system, a monitoring and data acquisition system and a repairing effect comprehensive assessment system. The infrastructure technology comprises heating well and extraction well construction, ground compaction and insulating layer construction technologies; heating wells are distributed on a contaminated site according to a triangle arrangement principle and a proximity principle, and the extraction well is arranged in the geometric center of the layout of the heating well; the gas treatment system is composed of a pre-cooling adsorption sledge, an extraction sledge and a treatment sledge, and is used for completing gas extraction and treatment and achieving the tail gas discharging requirement; and the repairing effect comprehensive assessment system evaluates the temperature risingeffect of the contaminated soil in the restoring process and the treatment effect of the contaminated soil. According to the system, the technological route is complete, the soil property applicability is wide, the heating temperature can reach 500 DEG C or above, and volatile and difficult-to-volatilize organic contaminant can be treated at the same time.

The invention provides a method for ecological remediation on an acid tailing pond. By removing acids from soil, and by laying nonwoven cloth and a sealing layer, good partitioning is achieved, and byfurther laying a water reservation layer and a coated seed layer, the purpose of re-greening an acid tailing pond is achieved. The method has the beneficial effects that rainwater can be reserved tothe maximum extent, the sealing layer is capable of preventing the rainwater from infiltrating into tailings, the problems of underground water and ground water pollution can be substantially solved,the construction method is simple, and the construction cost is low; by using a seed coating technique, a set of rapid nursery stock breeding technique is formed, a stable ecological remediation system is cultured, the target of completely re-greening woody plants within 90 days is achieved, and environment problems of acid tailing ponds are solved for good.

Solutions containing microorganisms differing in characteristics from each other and living in symbiosis with each other and enzymes characterized by containing aerobic microorganisms, anaerobic microorganisms and at least one basidiomycete belonging to the family Pleurotaceae living in symbiosis, metabolites thereof and enzymes; carriers obtained by adsorbing the components of the above solutions onto finely ground carbonaceous materials; and porous materials obtained by adsorbing the components of the above solutions onto porous materials. Because of having various effects of absorbing, adsorbing and decomposing harmful matters, deodorizing, decolorizing, etc., these materials are applicable to various uses in the fields of agriculture and environment.

A system and process are provided for recovering and/or cleaning residual or waste petroleum products such as sludge accumulated within a storage tank or upon process equipment surfaces, or from inorganic materials such as sand or clay, and the like. The system and process include a negatively charged aqueous-based dispersion fluid, which is contacted with the petroleum product under controlled relatively high pressure and high shear conditions for fluidizing hydrocarbon molecules and for preventing such molecules from adherence to process equipment surfaces, or contaminants such as sand or clay. Additional mechanical separation as by subjecting the mixed petroleum product and dispersion fluid slurry to sonic vibration may also be employed. The thus-fluidized slurry of petroleum products, dispersion fluid, and inorganic materials can be separated by conventional techniques, as by settling and/or flotation, for further individual processing and/or re-use.

An isolated Bacillus amyloliquefaciens Ba-BPD1 having an Accession No. of DSM 21836 is provided. This novel strain has unique 16S ribosomal RNA sequenced as SEQ ID NO:1 and produces amylase, protease, cellulase and lipase, fibrinolytic enzyme to show their biodegradation capacities. Further, B. amyloliquefaciens Ba-BPD1 produces the antibiotic substances, such as iturin, fengycin and surfactin, and has antimicrobial capacity for inhibiting the fungal or bacterial growth. In conclusion, the novel strain of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens Ba-BPD1 and its products can be applied in agriculture, wastewater treatment, food industry and chemical industry.

The present invention provides novel methods for removal and disposal of ammonia from spent dialysate in a dialysis system. Ammonium ions present in spent dialysate are converted into gaseous ammonia by raising the pH of the spent dialysate solution in a first reactor. Gaseous ammonia diffuses through a semi-permeable hydrophobic membrane at the outlet of the first reactor and into a second reactor via a gas channel. The second reactor converts gaseous ammonia into an ammonium compound for easy disposal.

The present invention relates to an aqueous decontaminating composition comprising(A) an amount of H2O2 less than or equal to 60% by weight, based on the total weight of said composition;(B) an RCO3H/RCO2H mixture, where R is methyl or ethyl, as indicated above, said mixture being present in an amount such that the weight ratio of said mixture to the hydrogen peroxide is between 0.15/1 and 0.85/1;(C) a silver component as a source of Ag ions, selected from the group consisting of silver salts and complexes, said silver component being present in an amount such that the weight ratio of said silver component to the hydrogen peroxide is between 0.0005/1 and 0.015/1;(D) a stabilizer present in an amount such that the weight ratio of said stabilizer to the hydrogen peroxide is between 0.0005/1 and 0.025/1; andwater to make up to 100% by weight. It further relates to the method of preparation and to the use of said composition.

The invention discloses a method for biologically remediating a water body and soil comprehensively utilizing resources. The method comprises the steps: (1), determining main pollutants in a selected land area or water body area; (2), selecting to plant and/or cultivate fast-growing herbaceous plants, fast-growing alga, trees, bushes, fungi or microorganisms with high remediation efficiency in the selected land area or water body area; (3), harvesting or collecting the fast-growing herbaceous plants and the fast-growing alga after growing to reach a suitable height or size; (4), concentratedly processing the harvested or collected fast-growing herbaceous plants and the fast-growing alga, and comprehensively utilizing to prevent the pollutants from dispersing; (5), remediating an eutrophic water body by adopting an artificial floating island; (6), remediating a heavy metal polluted water body by confining floating plants; (7), repairing cadmium and zinc polluted soil by mixed-cropping festuca arundinacea and bluegrass; (8), remediating polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) polluted soil by mixed-cropping alfalfa and italian ryegrass; and (9), extracting and recovering silver from silver-containing wastewater remediation plants.

Systems and methods are provided for converting organic waste materials from a municipal waste stream to useful products. Organic waste materials having a wide range of compositions such as, for example, yard waste, food waste, paper, and the organic fraction of municipal solid waste are converted into a uniform biomass that is suitable for conversion to useful products, such as fuels. Through the use of a biomixer and a hydropulper, as well as through sorting and screening, the organic waste materials are progressively reduced in size and cleaned of contamination. The resulting uniform biomass is suitable for anaerobic digestion to produce biogas and a residual solid that is suitable for producing a high quality compost.

A method of recovering hydrocarbons from hydrocarbonaceous materials can include forming a constructed permeability control infrastructure. This constructed infrastructure defines a substantially encapsulated volume. A comminuted hydrocarbonaceous material can be introduced into the control infrastructure to form a permeable body of hydrocarbonaceous material. The permeable body can be heated sufficient to remove hydrocarbons therefrom. During heating the hydrocarbonaceous material is substantially stationary as the constructed infrastructure is a fixed structure. Removed hydrocarbons can be collected for further processing, use in the process, and/or use as recovered.

The invention discloses a heavy metal absorbent and a preparation method and use thereof. The heavy metal absorbent is prepared by using an inorganic mineral modified by a surfactant as a carrier and loading organic complexing agent on the carrier, wherein the inorganic mineral is bentonite, kaolin, kieselguhr, zeolite, aluminum oxide or iron oxide; the surfactant is cationic surfactant or nonionic surfactant; and the organic complexing agent is a compound containing a sulfydryl and an amino. The heavy metal absorbent has the advantages of stable performance, environment friendliness, high absorption capacity, high selectivity, convenient post-recovery treatment and the like. The absorption capacities of cadmium, mercury lead and other heavy metals all exceed 100mg/g, and the heavy metal absorbent can achieve good treatment effect in treatment of water and soil environments polluted by heavy metals.

A method for treating particulate biodegradable organic waste includes sizing the waste and adding a base prior to introducing the waste to a thermal hydrolysis reactor and hydrolyzing the waste at a temperature of about 130° C. or greater and a pressure greater than the saturated water vapor pressure to produce a slurry including solubilized organic material and residual solids. The solubilized organic material is separated from the residual solids using a liquid/solid separator and the solubilized organics are subjected to anaerobic digestion to produce a methane gas. The base is preferably potassium hydroxide (KOH) at a concentration of about 1%. The method may further include preheating the particulate biodegradable organic waste with latent heat of the separated solubilized organic material prior to thermal hydrolysis.

The invention relates to a soil pollution thermal desorption restoration processing system, which belongs to a soil restoration processing system. The system comprises a feed system, a heat source system and a control system, and is characterized by further comprising a thermal desorption system and a tail gas processing device, wherein the thermal desorption system consists of a draught fan and a thermal extraction converter, and the tail gas processing device consists of a dust remover and an absorption tower. When the system is applied to processing polluted soil with main pollutants of volatile/semi-volatile organic compounds, compared with the like products in other countries, the equipment cost is only 1/3 to 1/5 of the same; the problem of secondary pollution probably brought about in the process of processing the polluted soil is thoroughly avoided; a temperature control system has better practicability; the running cost for each ton of the polluted soil is between 300 and 500 RMB, which is far low than the processing cost for hazardous landfilling and incineration of the polluted soil; and half of the purification effect of processing the polluted soil with the main pollutants of the volatile/semi-volatile organic compounds can reach between 70 and 80 percent.

The invention discloses a passivating agent for governing heavy metal contaminated soil and a preparation and use method of the passivating agent. The passivating agent comprises, in weight percent, 30%-50% of clay minerals, 10%-20% of phosphate, 10%-15% of reducing agents, 10%-15% of sulfide and 15%-20% of alkaline substances. The preparation method includes a step: mixing the clay minerals, the phosphate, the reducing agents, the sulfide and the alkaline substances to mix to obtain the passivating agent. The use method includes the steps: firstly, crushing the heavy metal contaminated soil; secondly, adding the passivating agent into the crushed heavy metal contaminated soil; thirdly, adding water into the crushed heavy metal contaminated soil added the passivating agent to uniformly mix, maintaining the uniformly mixed soil on site, and enabling the passivating agent and heavy metal in the soil to sufficiently react. The passivating agent can effectively meet the urgent requirements of current Chinese heavy metal contaminated soil for high stability, no secondary pollution, durable and stable effect and low cost.

The invention provides a farmland soil heavy metal pollution restoration method through coupling activating and passivating, belonging to the technical field of environmental technology. According to a technical scheme adopted by the invention, the farmland soil heavy metal pollution restoration method comprises the following steps: a step I, planting heavy metal hyper-accumulation plant, applying a heavy metal activator into the soil, collecting plant which is enriched with heavy metals; a step II, applying a heavy metal passivator into the soil, planting and harvesting crops with heavy metal content reaching the safety standard. By two different coupling technologies in the two government stages, on one hand, the concentration of heavy metals in the farmland soil is lowered with high efficiency, on the other hand, the farmland can be put into safety production as early as possible, so that the heavy metal pollution farmland soil restoration efficiency is improved generally, and the method can be applied to farmland soil with large-area heavy metal pollution.

The outside treating process of polluted soil includes the following steps: excavating the polluted soil, filling the soil inside the treating apparatus, pumping with vacuum pump to form certain vacuum degree in the pumping well while intruding fresh air into soil to promote the volatilization of pollutant and taking out the volatile. The soil may be also heated to speed the volatilization. The treating apparatus consists of exhaust well with exhaust pipeline, temperature controlling sensor and heater embedded into soil pipe. The treated soil may be re-filled or used in other site.

The invention relates to a roller-type reverse thermal desorption system for soil polluted by organic matters. The roller-type reverse thermal desorption system comprises a soil feeding system, wherein the soil feeding system and a heat source system are connected with a reverse thermal desorption system; the reverse thermal desorption system is connected with a dust removing system, a cooling system and an active carbon adsorption system in turn; and control ends of the soil feeding system, the heat source system, the reverse thermal desorption system, the dust removing system, the cooling system and the active carbon adsorption system are connected with a control system. In the roller-type reverse thermal desorption system, hot air is fed into a reverse thermal desorption roller by an ignition system, and polluted soil is fed into the reverse thermal desorption roller by a soil transferring device, wherein the hot air contacts the soil reversely, so that organic pollutants contained in the soil are heated and volatilized; the purified soil is used as backfill soil; and the volatilized tail gas is dedusted by a cyclone dust extractor and an adsorption dust extractor after passing through an induced draft fan, and the dedusted volatilized tail gas is absorbed by a honeycomb-shaped active carbon tower after passing through an atomization cooling tower and a dial plate cooling device, and finally is discharged by a tail gas exhaust device on the basis of meeting the national standard. Materials can be fed into the roller-type reverse thermal desorption system continuously and can be heated directly; and the hot air and the polluted soil are fully mixed, and the roller-type reverse thermal desorption system has high thermal desorption efficiency.