3654results about "Water/sewage treatment by reduction" patented technology

The present invention relates generally to a pharmaceutical packaging for increasing the product shelf life, reducing discoloration, and reducing degradation of pharmaceuticals by reducing the oxygen level present in the pharmaceutical package. The pharmaceutical package comprises a substantially oxygen impermeable container, at least one oxygen scavenging element disposed in the container, and at least one packaged pharmaceutical product disposed in the oxygen impermeable container.

The specification discloses a polymer blend especially well-suited for coating paperboard substrates used in food packaging, particularly acidic or acid-generating foods such as fruit and vegetable juices. The blend contains an acid-activatable oxygen scavenger dispersed in a film-forming synthetic polymer such as an EVOH copolymer. When placed as a film or layer on the side of the substrate inside the container in contact with the food the blend is effective to reduce the oxygen in the container over time to a very low concentration, replacing the same with carbon dioxide, for an excellent preservative effect.

The instant invention concerns a composition comprising a base polymer, at least one compound of the formula E-(L-E)_x wherein:

E is

and L is a linking group; and at least one transition metal in a positive oxidation state. The invention also concerns packages containing walls comprising such compositions, methods of forming such packages, and methods of packaging an oxygen-sensitive item within such a package

Provided is a cellulosic composite comprised of cellulosic material and a binder. The binder comprises a reaction product of an amine and a reactant in the form of an amino-amide intermediate. To the amino-amide is added an aldehyde or ketone to form a curable binder composition. The composition when mixed with cellulosic material and cured forms a cellulosic composite.

The present disclosure provides for a system and method that intensely oxidizes water as it navigates through a system and accurately, controllably neutralizes the oxidation by-products before the water exits the system.

The invention describes a new method for treating sludge, which can result in the production of high nitrogen organically-augmented inorganic fertilizer that incorporates municipal sludges or biosolids or organic sludges that can compete with traditional fertilizers such as ammonium phosphate, ammonium sulfate and urea on the commodity fertilizer marketplace. The method takes advantage of the thixotropic property of dewatered biosolids or organic sludge to create a pumpable paste-like material from the biosolids or organic sludge that is then treated with an oxidizer to reduce odorant effects and an acid. This mix is then interacted with concentrated sulfuric and or phosphoric acids and an ammonia source or alternatively a hot or molten melt or salt of ammonium sulfate/phosphate to form a fertilizer mix. The present invention controls the heat, atmospheric pressure and retention time of the fertilizer mix in the reaction vessel. When a fertilizer melt is formed ammoniation is subsequently completed by the specific use of vaporized ammonia. The invention can also be an add-on to commercial production of ammonium salts. The fertilizer produced by the present invention contains more than 8 wt. % nitrogen and preferably 15 wt. % nitrogen. The invention is oriented to be tailored to the biosolids production for individual municipal waste treatment plants in order to keep the fertilizer manufacturing plants of the present invention small with a minimization of logistics and liability.

A method for preparing highly stabilized and dispersible zero valent iron nanoparticles and using the nanoparticles as a remediation technology against inorganic chemical toxins in contaminated sites. The method employs a composition containing select polysaccharides (starch or cellulose) as a stabilizer for the iron nanoparticles in a liquid carrier, and results in suspensions of iron nanoparticles of desired size and mobility in water, brine, soils or sediments. The stabilizer facilitates controlling the dispersibility of the iron nanoparticles in the liquid carrier. An effective amount of the composition is delivered to a contaminated site so that the zero valent iron nanoparticles can remediate one or more toxins such as an arsenate, a nitrate, a chromate, or a perchlorate in the contaminated site.

Membranes, for example immersed polymeric ultrafiltration or microfiltration membranes, are cleaned by contacting them with a chemical cleaner comprising one or more of a gluconate, a hydrosulfite, a metabisulfite or an acid, for example phosphoric acid. The membranes may have been exposed to organic or inorganic foulants, some of which may have resulted from pretreatment involving adding coagulants, for example coagulants containing iron or aluminum, to water to be treated. Methods for treating a waste cleaning solution were described.

A system and process for de-halogenating ballast water before releasing the ballast water from the vessel. In one embodiment, the system comprises a means for measuring the halogen content of the ballast water, a reducing agent source in fluid communication with the ballast water, and a means for controlling the amount of reducing agent supplied to the ballast water. In one aspect, the means for measuring the halogen content comprises one or more oxidation/reduction potential analyzers. In another embodiment, the system comprises one or more hypochlorite electrolytic cells for generating hypochlorite to treat the ballast water.

One embodiment of the process for de-halogenating ballast water comprises measuring the oxidation/reduction potential of the ballast water and adding one or more reducing agents to the ballast water to de-halogenate the ballast water in response to the measured oxidation/reduction potential. In one aspect, the oxidation/reduction potential is modulated so that excess reducing agent is present in the ballast water.

Decontamination formulations for neutralization of toxic industrial chemicals, and methods of making and using same. The formulations are effective for neutralizing malathion, hydrogen cyanide, sodium cyanide, butyl isocyanate, carbon disulfide, phosgene gas, capsaicin in commercial pepper spray, chlorine gas, anhydrous ammonia gas; and may be effective at neutralizing hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide, formaldehyde, ethylene oxide, methyl bromide, boron trichloride, fluorine, tetraethyl pyrophosphate, phosphorous trichloride, arsine, and tungsten hexafluoride.

The invention discloses a carbon material loaded nano zero valence metal catalyst which comprises a nano zero valence metal and a carbon material, wherein the nano zero valence metal is uniformly dispersed in the carbon material; the loading quantity of the nano zero valence metal is 5-15mg/g; the nano zero valence metal is iron, copper, zinc or nickel; and the carbon material is a carbon nano tube, graphene or nano activated carbon. The invention further discloses the preparation and an allocation and application of the catalyst. The nano zero valence metal is loaded to the carbon material, so that the agglomeration of the zero valence metal is prevented, the stability of the catalyst is improved, and the specific surface area of the catalyst is remarkably increased; the catalyst is high efficient, cheap and stable in performance; a chlorine-containing organic pollutant can be rapidly and efficiently absorbed and enriched; and meanwhile the excellent electronic transmission capability of the nano carbon material can greatly accelerate the catalytic degradation speed of the pollutant, so that the pollutant can be more rapidly and effectively removed, so that the carbon material loaded nano zero valence metal catalyst is safe and economical.

A method includes providing an article including an oxygen scavenger; forming the article into a container; placing an oxygen sensitive product into the container; and exposing the container to actinic radiation at a dosage effective to sterilize the container, and trigger the oxygen scavenger in the article. Alternative methods are also disclosed. A package includes a container, the container including an activated oxygen scavenger; wherein the container is sterilized; and wherein an oxygen sensitive product is disposed in the container.

The invention relates to a processing method of stainless steel pickling waste liquid, which is characterized in that the processing method includes the steps that: neutral salt wastewater flows into a neutral reduction cell, and mixed acid pickling waste waters flow into a neutralizing tank; reducing agent is added into the neutral reduction cell, and then the reduced wastewater liquid is put into the neutralizing tank and is mixed with the adjusted mixed acid pickling waste waters, and liquid alkali is added into the neutralizing tank; the separated clear waste liquid removes fluorin ions in a settlement tank; neutralizing liquid is added into a final neutralizing tank to cause the pH value of treatment liquid to adjust to be neutralized wastewater liquid which passes through a sand filter to be discharged. The processing method has the advantages that metal ions and fluorin ions are performed the subsection treatment, and neutralizing agent is changed into the liquid alkali from lime cream, the requirement of reaching the standard of the waste liquid emission is not only achieved, but also the mud quantity produced by a mass of lime cream is greatly reduced, heavy metal mud of a retention pond only contains heavy metal compound, the salts of calcium fluoride and calcium sulphate, etc. are separated from the inclined plate settlement tank during the fluoridation stage, thereby the treatment cost is effectively lowered.

Methods and compositions are disclosed for treating swimming pool waters in order to remove one or more nutrients necessary for algal growth and to accelerate the breakdown of objectionable chloramines within chlorinated pool waters. The target nutrients of preference are those containing phosphorus or nitrogen. Phosphorus nutrients are preferably removed by ion-exchange with finely divided lanthanum carbonate, or by direct precipitation in the pool with liquid lanthanum chloride. Nitrogen nutrients (including, in particular, chloramines) may be removed (possibly with the aid of catalysts and in separate reactors). The same reagents used to scavenge phosphates are useful in this regard, the nitrogen being released from the pool water as a nitrogenous gas. To allow the fine lanthanum carbonates to be conveniently handled in the pool environment, they may be linked to larger carrier particles, such as those of diatomaceous earth, or they may be embedded within porous beads formed from polymers or gels. In this form the reagent can be either added to, retained within and backwashed from pool filters, or added directly to pools (with or without a flocculating agent) and sucked to waste after settling. A variety of formulations for these purposes is disclosed.

A treatment method for wastewater employing sulfur dioxide and lime chemical dewatering technology in conjunction with an environmental photo biomass/algae biological treatment system growing photo biomass/algae to reduce dissolved solids, heavy metals, and ammonia in the wastewater to produce recovered treated wastewater for vegetation consumption, biofuel feedstock, and biofuel and carbon credits.

The invention relates to an anaerobic zero-valent iron sewage treatment method, belonging to the sewage treatment technical field. The anaerobic zero-valent iron sewage treatment places zero-valent iron in an anaerobic reactor and utilizes the environmental conditions of the anaerobic isolated air to largely reduce the formation rate of the rust of zero-valent iron and avoid the formation of hardening; meanwhile, the method uses the reducing action of metal iron to increase the anaerobic reductive atmosphere, balance the pH and increase the effect of the anaerobic organism. A circulating pump is adopted for sewage backflow so as to increase the overflow load of an iron/activated carbon layer and the reaction effect of zero-valent iron, improve the fluidization effect of sludge to increase the anaerobic process efficiency. In a sewage treatment system, ferrous iron contained in the discharged sewage is oxidized to Fe(OH)3 with the air and the coagulation generated in the process can further purify the sewage. Long-term experiment research shows that the decolorizing rate of the sewage treatment method for dye wastewater can teach 85%-95%, the COD can be reduced by more than 50% and the biodegradability can be increased to more than 0.3.

The invention belongs to the field of chemical materials, and particularly relates to a FeS and Fe0 composite and a preparation method and application thereof. The FeS and Fe0 composite is formed by compositing nano FeS and nano Fe0, the surface of the nano Fe0 is coated with the nano FeS, and the molar ratio of the nano FeS to the nano Fe0 is 2:1 to 15:1. According to the FeS and Fe0 composite and the preparation method and application thereof, the preparation process is simple, convenient, environmentally friendly and feasible, the prepared FeS and Fe0 composite is high in reaction activity, capable of efficiently and rapidly reducing and adsorbing heavy metal ions in waste water within a wider temperature range, a pH value range and a dissolved oxygen content range and further capable of rapidly and efficiently activating hydrogen peroxide and persulfate to make a system generate hydroxyl free radicals and sulfate free radicals to degrade and mineralize organic pollutants, and therefore the FeS and Fe0 composite can be widely applied to degradation of the organic pollutants in surface water and underground water.

A composition for the generation of chlorine dioxide including at least one non-iodo interhalide, polyhalide or salt thereof having the formula

Br_mCl_nF_oX_p

wherein m=0–3, n=0–4, o=0–3, p=0–2, X is a cationic moiety and with the provisos that m+n+o cannot be zero; if m+n+p<2, or mixtures thereof, and at least one source of chlorite ions.

The present invention relates to nanocomposite materials comprising nanoclays as support of metal oxide particles which give the materials multi-functional properties. Said properties are obtained through the formulation of a specific type of additives based on layers of natural and/or synthetic clays which are intercalated with metal oxides with antimicrobial and/or oxygen sequestrating and/or catalytic and/or self-cleaning and/or anti-abrasive capacity; and which may optionally contain other organic, metal, inorganic compounds or combination thereof which may exercise a role of compatibilization and/or dispersion and/or increase in the functionality of the metal oxides and/or providing new functionalities, both passive of physical strengthening and active such as biocide character, antioxidant and chemical-species absorbers.

Furthermore, the present invention discloses the use of said materials for multi-sector applications.