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The invention is directed to a wastewater treatment system having an anoxic biological treatment zone, an aerobic biological treatment zone and a separator. The concentration of oxygen in streams within the system is strategically managed for improved removal of nutrient from the wastewater. A source of biodegradable carbon may be introduced to reduce the concentration of oxygen within the system. An effective treatment time under anoxic or aerobic conditions may further be varied.

Methods and systems for treating a waste stream in a waste treatment system involve performing a unit process of the waste treatment system by contacting the waste stream with oxyhydrogen-rich gas generated on-site by an oxyhydrogen gas generator that implements water dissociation technology. In a preferred embodiment, the oxyhydrogen gas generator involves applying a pulsed electrical signal to a series of closely-spaced electrodes that are submerged in the waste stream to produce oxyhydrogen-rich gas from a water component of the waste stream. Operation of the oxyhydrogen gas generator in the waste stream may accomplish one or more unit processes for waste treatment, such as conditioning, stabilization, thickening, and dewatering, among others. At least a portion of the oxyhydrogen-rich gas can be conveyed for a second use in the waste treatment system, such as a source of combustible fuel for incineration or power generation, for example.

Hybrid copolymers for use as anti-scalant and dispersant. The polymers are useful in compositions used in aqueous systems. The polymers include at least one synthetic monomeric constituent that is chain terminated by a naturally occurring hydroxyl containing moiety. A process for preparing these hybrid copolymers is also provided.

A composition useful for nitrate removal, and treatment of water, selected from mining, agriculture industries, military operations, or others water stream, or industrial waters, livestock wastewater and a livestock water stream or from other sources, which comprises a sufficient amount of organic modified clay, a highly crosslinked carbohydrate polymer with branched-chain structure and having present sulfide or disulfide group, or alloy or blend with triazine-trithione sodium salt, high swelling sodium bentonite or calcium bentonite, and activated carbon, without pH adjustment, and/or presents of electropositive metals inorganic acid or alkaline compounds.

There is provided a method of inhibiting the development of a biofilm adjacent a surface, the method comprising intermittently applying a biofilm inhibiting substance to a collection of microorganisms having biofilm developing potential. There is also provided a method of inhibiting the development of a biofilm adjacent a surface, the method comprising inhibiting the biofilm developing potential of a collection of microorganisms without completely eradicating said collection of microorganisms. Also provided are a system for inhibiting the development of a biofilm, and a method and system for inhibiting the production of an enzyme by a collection of microorganisms.

Materials and a method are provided whereby polymers with least 0.5 mole % of the pendant group or end group containing —Si(OR″)₃ (where R″ is H, an alkyl group, Na, K, or NH₄) are used to control aluminosilicate scaling in an industrial process having an alkaline process stream such as a pulping mill process stream. When materials of the present invention are added to the alkaline process stream, they reduce and even completely prevent formation of aluminosilicate scale on equipment surfaces such as evaporator walls and heating surfaces. The present materials are effective at treatment concentrations that make them economically practical.

A water purification method comprising adding a purification agent to water having a contaminant concentration of 1 μg/L to 10 g/L, the purification agent containing an adsorbent having an average particle size of 100 nm to 500 μm, an iron-based flocculant, and an alkaline substance; causing the adsorbent to adsorb at least a part of the contaminants in water; settling the adsorbent with the adsorbed contaminants by the iron-based flocculant; and removing the sediment from water, wherein the purification agent is added in an amount of 0.01 g to 20 g per liter of water, can purify contaminated water conveniently and efficiently.

Amine-aldehyde resins are disclosed for removing a wide variety of solids and/or ionic species from the liquids in which they are suspended and/or dissolved. These resins are especially useful as froth flotation depressants in the separation of bitumen from sand and/or clay or in the beneficiation of clay (e.g., kaolin clay) from an impure clay-containing ore. The resins are also useful for treating aqueous liquid suspensions to remove solid particulates, as well as for removing metallic ions in the purification of water.

A contaminate separation apparatus for use in separating contaminant materials from cellulose and/or paper fibres in a paper recycling process includes a reservoir for receiving a waste paper slurry therein. The reservoir is provided with an inlet opening for the input of the slurry, one or more fibre discharge outlets or passages, and at least one waste outlet positioned vertically above the fibre discharge outlet opening. An agitator provided in a lower portion of the reservoir generates differential flow currents within the reservoir, to selectively divert plastics, waxes, adhesives and/or other sticky waste materials outwardly towards the waste outlet, while providing a flow of suspended paper and/or cellulose fibres to one or more of the fibre discharge outlets.

The technological process of treating papermaking effluent for reuse based on membrane integrating technique has membrane bioreactor, continuous membrane filter and reverse osmosis unit integrated for high efficiency treatment of papermaking effluent. The papermaking effluent treating process includes drum filtering and flocculating deposition to eliminate most suspended matter and colloid matter, anaerobic and aerobic biochemical treatment, filtering in membrane separating element, continuous membrane filtering, and treating with reverse osmosis membrane to reach the papermaking water standard. The present invention is especially suitable for treating hard-to-treat papermaking effluent.

The invention relates to a recycling method for treating stainless steel pickling acid pickle and wastewater, belonging to the field of treatment of industrial acid pickle and wastewater in iron and steel and metallurgy industries. The acid pickle and wash wastewater generated during stainless steel pickling are collected according to quality and category and the acid pickle is subjected to acid recycling. The acid pickle and wash wastewater are treated through fractional precipitation by adopting lime as a neutralizing agent. Calcium sulfate or calcium fluoride or a mixture of calcium sulfate and calcium fluoride is obtained through precipitation under the acidic condition (the pH value is equal to 3.0+/-0.5) and can serve as a cement filler or a material for brickmaking or a building material after heavy metal polluted calcium salt is removed. A metal hydroxide is obtained through precipitation under the alkaline condition (the pH value is not more than 9.0) and can serve as a stainless steel smelting raw material as the quality of the product is better than that of the imported laterite-nickel ores in China. The calcium nitrate containing wastewater obtained after the acid pickle is treated is not needed to be discharged or treated and can be recycled. After being treated, the wash wastewater can be reused as production line wash water.

Methods to improve dewatering in industrial and municipal sludges are described. One method involves admixing sludge from a papermaking process and modified cellulose to provide modified sludge with the modified cellulose present in an effective amount to improve dewatering in the treated sludge, such as in allowing use of reduced amounts of coagulant and/or reducing dewatering times, increased dewatered volumes, and reduced sludge product moisture contents, and the like. The dewatered sludge may be formed into a dried particulate, and may be used as filler or other component of concrete, rubber, asphalt, plastics, resin-wood composite products, and other composite products.

Methods and systems for separating hydrogen and sulfur from hydrogen sulfide(H₂S) gas. Hydrogen sulfide(H₂S) gas is passed into a scrubber and filtration unit with polysulfide solution. Interaction frees elemental sulfur which is filtered, excess continues to a stripper unit where the excess H₂S is removed. The excess H₂S returns to the scrubber and filtration unit, while the sulfide solution passes into a photoreactor containing a photocatalyst and a light source. The sulfide solution is oxidatively converted to elemental sulfur and complexed with excess sulfide ion to make polysulfide ion, while water is reduced to hydrogen. Hydrogen is released, while the polysulfide solution is fed back to the scrubber unit where the system operation repeats. In a second embodiment, the photocatalyst is eliminated, and the hydrogen sulfide solution is directly illuminated with ultraviolet radiation with a light source such as a low pressure mercury lamp operating at approximately 254 nm.

A method for controlling treatment of an industrial water system is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of providing an apparatus for controlling delivery of at least one treatment chemical, the apparatus comprising at least one sensor and an electronic input/output device carrying out a protocol; measuring a parameter of the industrial water system using the at least one sensor; relaying the measured parameter to the electronic device; adjusting the protocol based on the measured parameter; delivering a concentrated treatment chemical into a stream of the industrial water system according to the adjusted protocol, the concentrated treatment chemical comprising an active ingredient, the active ingredient traced as necessary, the active ingredient having a concentration; repeating the measuring, the adjusting, and the delivering; and optionally repeating the steps for n-number of parameters, n-number of active ingredients, and/or n-number of concentrated treatment chemicals.

A mediated electrochemical oxidation process is used to treat, oxidize and destroy food waste materials, such as manure, biological residue, hay, straw, animal byproducts, bones, horns, blood, biological items, pathological waste and combined waste. Food waste is introduced into an apparatus for contacting the waste with an electrolyte containing the oxidized form of one or more reversible redox couples, at least one of which is produced by anodic oxidation in an electrochemical cell. The oxidized species of the redox couples oxidize the organic waste molecules and are themselves converted to their reduced form, whereupon they are reoxidized by either of the aforementioned mechanisms and the redox cycle continues until all oxidizable waste species, including intermediate reaction products, have undergone the desired degree of oxidation. The process takes place at temperatures between zero degrees centigrade and below the boiling point of the electrolyte.

The invention relates to a process for treating waste paper pulping and papermaking waste water. The process comprises the following steps of: removing large-particle suspended matters from waste paper pulping and papermaking waste water through a grille well arranged at a discharge outlet, then feeding the waste paper pulping and papermaking waste water in a water collection tank, and pumping into a filtration system of an inclined screen device through a waste water lift pump; regulating and homogenizing the quality and quantity of waste water in a regulating tank, pumping water from the regulating tank into a horizontal-flow flotation tank through the lift pump, feeding a coagulant for coagulating sedimentation; feeding outflowing water of the horizontal-flow flotation tank into a middle tank, pumping a part of outflowing water into a workshop for reuse through a backflow pump, and pumping the rest part of outflowing water into an anaerobic tank; enabling the outflowing water of the anaerobic tank to an aerobic tank, enabling the outflowing water of the aerobic tank to a secondary sedimentation tank; enabling a part of outflowing water sedimented to flow in a recycling water collection tank and then pumped into the workshop for recycling; and enabling the other part of outflowing water to flow in a terminal discharge tank to reach the emission standard; enabling a part of biochemical sludge discharged from the secondary sedimentation tank to flow back to the aerobic tank, and enabling the other part of sludge to flow in a sludge thickening tank to be thickened, discharging supernatant of the secondary sedimentation tank into the regulating tank, and enabling the thickened filtrate to flow back into the regulating tank.

An object of the present invention is to provide a composition excellent in various flocculation performances for various sludge and papermaking systems, especially excellent as a polymer flocculant, and provide a sludge-dewatering agent excellent in dewatering performances for various sludge, especially excellent in flocculationability, as well as a retention aid which can realize a high retention and ensure excellent formation of paper and which is easy to use.

A composition is provided, which comprises two or more amphoteric water-soluble polymers in combination shown below, the polymers being obtained by polymerizing a cationic radical-polymerizable monomer and an anionic radical-polymerizable monomer in a presence of a polysaccharide.

1. A combination of a polymer satisfying the molar ratio of the cationic radical-polymerizable monomer to the anionic radical-polymerizable monomer (hereinafter referred to as Ca/An) of Ca/An≧1, and a polymer satisfying Ca/An<1, or

2. a combination of two kinds of polymers satisfying Ca/An≧1.

A method to produce N₂O from organic nitrogen and/or reactive nitrogen in waste uses a bioreactor coupled to a hardware reactor device in which the N₂O is consumed in a gas phase chemical reaction, e.g., catalytic decomposition to form oxygen and nitrogen gas. Heat from the exothermic reaction may be used to generate power. The N₂O may alternatively be used as an oxidant or co-oxidant in a combustion reaction, e.g., in the combustion of methane.

The invention relates to the technical field of wastewater treatment, and in particular relates to a papermaking wastewater treating agent and a preparation method thereof. The papermaking wastewater treating agent comprises the following raw materials in parts by weight: 2-10 parts of ferrous sulfate, 10-20 parts of magnesium sulfate, 0.5-1.5 parts of polyacrylamide, 15-25 parts of ferric nitrate, 1-5 parts of nickel nitrate, 35-50 parts of polyaluminum chloride, 15-30 parts of starch xanthate, 2-5 parts of tetrasodium 2-phosphonobutane-1, 2, 4-tricarboxylate, 0.5-1 part of zinc sulfate, 1-3 parts of benzotriazole, 16-30 parts of modified kieselguhr, 5-20 parts of cross-linked rectorite and 5-8 parts of a chitosan-graphene composite material. The papermaking wastewater treating agent disclosed by the invention is wide in using range, simple in treatment process, small in drug consumption, good in treatment effect, stable in performance and good in effluent quality and is capable of effectively reducing the cost of water treatment, so that the papermaking wastewater treating agent has a very good economic benefit and a wide social benefit.

Provided is a biocidal composition comprising glutaraldehyde and an oxazolidine biocidal compound. The composition is useful for controlling microorganisms in aqueous or water containing systems such as found in oil and natural gas production.

Methods for steady state operation of an upflow anaerobic digester using organic matter that contains a portion of solid, non-digestible matter include (1) providing an upflow anaerobic digester, (2) providing a bacterial culture in the upflow anaerobic digester for the breakdown of organic matter, (3) introducing an influent into the upflow anaerobic digester, wherein the influent comprises a biodegradable component, a liquid component, and an amount of solid non-digestible matter, (4) operating the upflow anaerobic digester in a steady-state, (5) accumulating the solid, non-digestible matter in the upflow anaerobic digester, (6) and removing a portion of the accumulated solid, non-digestible matter from the upflow anaerobic digester through the bottom of the upflow anaerobic digester while maintaining steady-state operation of the upflow anaerobic digester. Steady-state operation of the upflow anaerobic digester is maintained by selecting a percentage of the total volume of the liquid and material that are flushed from the digester for a given period of time so as to preserve the steady-state of the bacterial culture.

A method of treating spent alkaline pulping liquor (black liquor) includes the steps of providing black liquor containing lignin, and acidulating a phosphate containing material, wherein phosphoric acid is generated by the acidulating step. The black liquor is mixed with phosphoric acid from the acidulated phosphate containing material, wherein lignin is separated and clarified liquor results. The method can include the step of adding a water soluble, surface active, polymeric, coagulant agent to the black liquor before mixing with the phosphoric acid from the phosphate containing material. The clarified liquor comprises anion species including phosphate.

The invention discloses a catalytical ozonization catalyst prepared by utilizing multi-source sludge and an application thereof, and establishes a method for preparing a sludge group active carbon catalyst for catalytical ozone oxidation organic industrial waste water. The method comprises the following steps of: utilizing multi-source sludge such as surplus sludge generated by urban sewage factory biochemical treatment and a metal sludge generated by a Fenton oxidation method, preparing a skeleton which is a sludge group active carbon through steps such as organic substance adding, actification, dehydration, drying, mixing, roasting and screening, wherein a surface layer contains a solid catalyst of metallic oxide, and the ratio of the sludge group active carbon and the metallic oxide in parts by weight is 1:(0.3-0.5). The catalyst is used for catalyzing ozone oxidation treatment organic industrial waste water and has higher catalytic activity and stability, the processing range is wide, the realization and popularization and application are easy, and the economic benefits are improved in an organic industrial waste water processing procedure.