65results about "Magnesium sulfites" patented technology

The present invention includes pure single-crystalline metal oxide and metal fluoride nanostructures, and methods of making same. These nanostructures include nanorods and nanoarrays.

Alkaline or neutral viscoelastic cleaning compositions are disclosed which use non polymer thickening agents. According to the invention, cleaning compositions have been developed using viscoelastic surfactants in a neutral, acidic or alkaline cleaning formulations. These provide the dual benefit of thickening as well as an additional cleaning, thereby improving performance. Applicants have also identified several pseudo linking agents which when, used with viscoelastic surfactants provide viscoelasticity in alkaline cleaning compositions.

Systems are disclosed for making and using micro-porous particulates at least partially composed of metal sulfides, particularly alkaline earth metal and transition metal sulfides, as sorbents for removal of mercury from flue gas. Calcium sulfide micro-porous powders derived from the high temperature reduction of calcium sulfate and calcium sulfite are disclosed to be reactive substrates for a group of sorbents for adsorption of mercury from coal combustion flue gases produced by the utilities industry, as well as from natural gas and gaseous and liquid hydrocarbons. The sorbents are useful for cost-effectively adsorbing elemental mercury and oxidized mercury species such as mercuric chloride from flue gases, including those containing acid gases (e.g., SO.sub.2, NO and NO.sub.2, and HCl), over a wide range of temperatures.

The invention provides a process for stabilizing plaster and an apparatus for implementing the moistening part of the process. The process comprises the following steps: a) providing a heated HH-plaster preferably at temperatures over 100° C.; b) feeding the hot plaster in a moistening device having walls heated to at least 100° C.; c) injecting water and/or steam into the moistening device in conditions that such not yet moistened surfaces of the plaster are exposed to the injected water and/or steam; d) maintaining an atmosphere in the moistening device at a level of the dew point in the range of 75 to 99° C.; e) feeding the moistened blend into a curing device; f) maintaining an atmosphere in the curing device above 75° C. for at least 3 minutes; g) feeding the moistened and cured blend into a drying device; and h) drying said moistened and cured blend. The invention also provides an apparatus for moistening β-hemihydrate plaster comprising a rotating drum with lifting blades inside where all walls in contact with the product are externally heated at a temperature above 100 ° C . The invention finally provides specific uses for plasters obtainable by the process of the invention.

A process for the removal of pollutants from a combustion process and, more particularly, a process for removing pollutants such as carbon dioxide, mercury, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen compounds and oxygen compounds from a combustion process. The process includes the removal of pollutants from a combustion process that produces an emission comprising: cooling the emission to a temperature of about 200° C.; removing nitrogen, water and oxygen from the emission to produce a gas containing a concentration of pollutants; contacting the gas with an aqueous magnesium chloride solution, wherein a slurry mixture is formed; and cooling the gas and the slurry mixture, wherein hydrochloric acid vapour and a sludge are formed.

Acidic viscoelastic cleaning compositions are disclosed which use non polymer thickening agents. According to the invention, cleaning compositions have been developed using viscoelastic surfactants in acidic cleaning formulations. These provide the dual benefit of thickening as well as an additional cleaning, thereby improving performance. Applicants have also identified several pseudo linking agents which when, used with viscoelastic surfactants provide enhanced viscoelasticity and cleaning.

The present invention relates to a method for making pure salt comprises recapturing post-drilling flowback water from hydro-fracturing; removing oil from the flowback water; filtering the flowback water using an ultra filter with a pore size of about 0.1 microns or less to remove solid particulates and large organic molecules, such as benzene, ethylbenzene, toluene, and xylene, from the water; concentrating the flowback water to produce a brine that contains from about 15 wt % to about 40 wt % of salt relative to the total weight of the flowback brine; performing one or more chemical precipitation process using an effective amount of reagents to precipitate out the desired high quality commercial products, such as, barium sulfate, strontium carbonate, calcium carbonate; and crystallizing the chemically treated and concentrated flowback brine to produce greater than 99.5% pure salt products, such as sodium and calcium chloride.

The present invention relates to a catalyst for reducing mercury, which comprises a reagent comprising any of the sulfites of potassium, sodium, calcium and magnesium, or any of the phosphates thereof, or a combination of them, as a main reagent of a catalyst component. And the present invention relates to the catalyst for reducing mercury, wherein the catalyst component is mixed with a different salt as an agent for inhibiting crystallization of the catalyst component.

The invention discloses a preparation method of magnesium sulfite during the desulphurization with magnesium oxide, which is capable of reducing the system water consumption and improving the yield of the magnesium sulfite. The preparation method includes: (1) removing impurities: guiding fume containing sulfur dioxide into a pretreatment device, removing partial fine powder dust, the hydrogen chloride and the hydrogen fluoride from the fume in the pretreatment device with atomized water sprayed from a spraying device, and loading the fume to a desulfurizing tower; (2) desulfurizing: allowing thje sulfur dioxide in the fume and the magnesium hydroxide slurry to react in the desulfurizing tower so as to remove the sulfur dioxide from the fume and further arranging the oxidation inhibitor simple substance or the sodium thiosulfate in order to prevent oxidation of the generated magnesium sulfite by the oxygen in the fume to obtain magnesium sulfate; and (3) separating: flocculating and settling the desulfurized slurry to obtain sediment, and performing the solid-liquid separation to obtain dried magnesium sulfite byproducts.

A composition for reducing deposition of a mineral salt from an aqueous supersaturated solution onto a solid surface in contact with the aqueous supersaturated solution which composition comprises a dispersion of either (i) seed crystals of the mineral salt in an aqueous solution of the mineral salt or (ii) seed crystals of a salt isomorphous with the mineral salt in an aqueous solution of the isomorphous salt wherein the dispersed seed crystals are of Mean particle size of less than 2.5 microns.

The invention discloses a recovery method of a magnesium oxide flue gas desulfurization product, belonging to the technical field of resource utilization of flue gas desulfurization products and comprising the following steps of: inhibiting the oxidation of an absorption liquid during circulation desulfurization, facilitating the crystallization and the precipitation of MgSO3 (magnesium sulfite), pumping out concentrated slurry from the bottom of a circulation pool by using a centrifugal pump when the concentrated slurry is reached, filter-pressing the concentrated slurry into a solid through a plate frame, transporting the solid to a professional desulfurization product recovery plant, and reacting concentrated sulfuric acid with the MgSO3 to generate an MgSO4 (magnesium sulfate) serous liquid and an SO2 (sulfur dioxide) gas; and collecting the SO2 through a tiny negative pressure, drying, cooling, liquefying and canning the SO2, filtering, crystallizing and centrifugally dewatering the serous liquid so that the separation of solid-phase and liquid phase impurities is realized, and stoving to form an industrial product. By virtue of the method, the industrial production of MgSO4.7H2O and liquid-state SO2 is realized, a set of green chemical process is created with the flue gas desulfurization, the desulfurization, the recovery efficiency and the economic benefit are improved, and the technical and economical properties of the magnesium oxide flue gas desulfurization are comprehensively enhanced.

A carbon-based material containing an allotrope of carbon, such as single-walled carbon nanotubes, is capable of accepting and intercalated alkali metal. The material exhibits a reversible capacity ranging from approximately 650 mAh/g-1,000 mAh/g. The high capacity of the material makes it attractive for a number of applications, such as a battery electrode material. A method of producing a single-walled carbon nanotube material includes purifying an as-recovered nanotube material, and depositing the purified material onto a conductive substrate. The coated substrate is incorporated into an electrochemical cell, an its ability to accept intercalated materials, such as an alkali metal (e.g.-lithium) is measured.

A process for the recovery of magnesium oxide from a source containing magnesium salts, said process including the steps of: (a) adding an alkali and sulfur dioxide to the source containing magnesium salts, in a leach step to form a magnesium bi-sulfite containing leachate;(b) separating the insoluble materials from the leachate; (c) stripping excess sulfur dioxide from the leachate and precipitating the magnesium as solid magnesium sulfite hydrate; (d) separating the solid magnesium sulfite hydrate from the magnesium depleted leachate; and (e) calcining the solid magnesium sulfite hydrate and recovering the magnesium as magnesium oxide.

The invention discloses methods for making micron/nano meter sized particles of various inorganic materials such as minerals/oxides/sulphides/metals/ceramics at a steadily expanding liquid-liquid interface populated by suitable surfactant molecules that spontaneously organize themselves into superstructures varying over large length-scales. This experiment is realized in a radial Hele-Shaw cell where the liquid-liquid interfacial growth rate and consequently time scales such as arrival of surfactant molecules to the interface, the hydrodynamic flow effect to modulate the material organization into super structures at the dynamic charged interface.

The invention discloses a device and method for producing magnesium sulfite by flue gas desulfurization. The device comprises a flue gas desulfurization device, a slurry circulating pool, a circulating settling tank and the like. The device and method are especially suitable for removing sulfur dioxide in coal burning boiler flue gas and other types of flue gas with low oxygen content, and can generate magnesium sulfite. By adopting the combination mode of multistage absorption, circulating settling and settling tank cooling crystallization, the device and method ensure the desulfurization efficiency and byproduct quality on the premise of thoroughly eliminating the electric power consumption and steam consumption of the oxidation blower, greatly lower the operating cost of the coproduct production system, and reduce the desulfurization operating cost.