317 results about "Metal sulfate" patented technology

A method and device for the chemical conversion, filtration and/or purification of fluids water or other solutions containing microbiological and chemical contaminants, such as fluids containing arsenic, chlorine, bacteria, viruses, and cysts, where the fluid is passed through a purification material composed of fluid treatment carbon, metal phosphates, metal oxides, reduced metals, metal silicates, metal sulfates, metal carbonates, metal hydroxides, or combinations thereof. The material may be included in a fixed binder matrix.

This invention provides lithium-rich compounds as precursors for positive electrodes for lithium cells and batteries. The precursors comprise a Li₂O-containing compound as one component, and a second charged or partially-charged component, selected preferably from a metal oxide, a lithium-metal-oxide, a metal phosphate or metal sulfate compound. Li₂O is extracted from the above-mentioned electrode precursors to activate the electrode either by electrochemical methods or by chemical methods. The invention also extends to methods for synthesizing and activating the precursor electrodes and to cells and batteries containing such electrodes.

A carbon nanotube carrying magnetic alloy particles on its surface and used as wave absorbing material is prepared through uniformly dispersing carbon nanotubes in the solution of the sulfate of Fe, Co and Ni, and oxidizing-reducing reaction for deposition the magnetic alloy particles on carbon nanotubes.

The present invention provides a regenerable catalyst composition suitable for entrapping SO_x. The composition of the invention comprises a copper oxide having the formula (Cu/(A oxide) where A oxide is SiO₂, Zr—SiO₂, A1₂O₃, TiO₂—Al₂O₃, ZrO₂ and In₂O₃ or mixtures thereof. Copper loading may vary from about 10 to 60 mol % and is preferably about 25 mol %. The catalyst composition adsorbs SO_x as metal sulfate under lean conditions and desorbs accumulated SO_x as SO₂ under rich conditions. Such reversible SO_x trap are able to operate under conventional NO_x trap operating conditions to prevent sulfur poisoning of the NO_x trap. Furthermore, these traps may be regenerated under rich conditions at 300-450° C. In another embodiment of the present invention, an irreversible SO_x trap capable of collecting SO_x under lean conditions is provided. The traps of this embodiment include praseodymia, zirconia-praseodymia and mixed manganese-yttria and mixtures thereof.

Compositions and methods of preparing amino acid chelates and complexes are disclosed and described. Specifically, by (a) combining a hydrated metal sulfate salt with an amino acid ligand to form a particulate blend, (b) placing the particulate blend in an enclosed environment; and (c) applying heat to the particulate blend in the enclosed environment causing the waters of hydration of the metal sulfate salt to be released into the enclosed environment causing a reaction resulting in the formation of an amino acid chelate or complex by effecting the reaction between functional electron rich groups of the amino acid ligand and a metal ion of the metal sulfate salt. The waters of hydration serve to provide the water necessary to enable a bonding reaction to take place between the electron rich functional groups of the amino acid ligand and the metal ion of the hydrated metal sulfate salt.

A composition of matter and the method of making that provide a low pH acidic composition that is useful for destroying microorganisms that are undesirable and useful for destroying or reducing melanoma on human skin. The composition and method include a strong, low pH acid combined with distilled water and urea or an ammonium compound, such as ammonium sulfate or other metallic sulfates, including but not limited to, sodium sulfate, magnesium sulfate, zinc sulfate, manganese sulfate, and copper sulfate, under at least 15 psi pressure in pressurized container, all of which is heated to approximately 800° F. or more for at least 3 hours. The final cooled mixture is stabilized with 10 to 15 percent of the original mixture. The resultant composition is useful for preserving food, such as fresh fish, and for skin treatment of melanoma and as bactericides, fungicides, or viricides.

The invention belongs to the field of mineral resource comprehensive utilization, and relates to methods for reduced leaching of oxidized ore and oxidation leaching of sulfide ore through biological and chemical catalysis, in particular to a biological-chemical metallurgy method by jointly utilizing the oxidized ore and the sulfide ore. The reduced leaching of the metal oxidized ore and the oxidation leaching of the metal sulfide ore are realized by utilizing auxoautotrophs, auxohetertrophs or a mixture thereof under mild conditions; and the mixture ratio of the metal oxidized ore to the metal sulfide ore can be adjusted by adding organic biomass. The leachate is purified, concentrated and crystallized into metal sulfates which are then reduced and thermally decomposed into products of sulfur dioxide and metal oxides; and the sulfur dioxide is subjected to biological oxidation to prepare sulphuric acid for recycling.

Fluids, such as completion fluids, containing at least one alkali metal tungstate and optionally at least one chelating agent are described. Methods of removing a filter cake from a well bore surface, which may include one or more alkaline earth metal sulfates, is also described, wherein the method includes contacting the filter cake with the completion fluid of the present invention. A drilling fluid or mud is also described wherein the drilling fluid contains at least one alkali metal tungstate. The drilling fluid preferably further contains at least one emulsifier or surfactant and at least one hydrocarbon-based fluid. The various fluids of the present invention can contain other conventional ingredients and optionally at least one alkali metal formate. The present invention permits the fluids to be essentially solids free due to the use of the alkali metal tungstate.

The invention relates to method for preparing decolouring material for printing and dyeing wastewater, which employs concave-convex stick mineral as main raw material (80-100 mu), mixing with sulfuric acid of 1.5-3.0 mol/l, the ratio between solid and liquid is 1:2-3, activating under room temperature for 1-2 hours; adding 0-5% of metallic sulphate such as iron, manganese and alumium (weight by metallic oxide); neutralizing with basic solution of 3-6 mol/l to make pH be about 7-8; solid-liquid separating, granulating (3-5 mm), drying, calcining under 700 Deg. C for 0.5-2 hours, and getting product. The invention can get side product of Na2SO4 10H2O or (NH4)2SO4 from filtering liquor; the decoloring material can be reused for more than four times after being immersed with ammonia sulfate of 1.5-6.0 mol/l for 2-5 minutes and calcined under 300 Deg.C for 5-25 minutes; the decoloration rate is over 94%, and decoloration rate with reused decoloraing material is over 91%. The invention is characterized by simple producing process, low cost and no pollution.

The invention provides an oil-stain cleaning agent. The oil-stain cleaning agent comprises a main cleaning material and an auxiliary cleaning material, wherein the main cleaning material comprises microcrystal powder particles with crystalline structures and mohs hardness of 2-4; the surfaces of the microcrystal powder particles are wrapped and coated with a layer of water-proof material; the microcrystal powder particles comprise the following components: metal sulfate and metal carbonate; and the auxiliary cleaning material comprises a nonionic surface active agent, a corrosion inhibiting agent and an anti-rusting agent. The invention also provides a preparation method and a use method of the oil-stain cleaning agent.

A hydrometallurgical process utilizing an atmospheric calcium chloride leach to selectively recover from various metal feed stocks (consisting of elemental metals, metal oxides, metal ferrite, metal hydroxide, metal carbonates, metal sulfate/sulfur compounds, and their hydrates, specifically including but not limited to EAF Dust K061) zinc, lead, cadmium, silver, copper and other valuable metals to the exclusion of iron, magnesium, halogen salts and other unwanted elements. The process solves the problem of iron and magnesium leach solution contamination because iron is unexpectedly converted to magnetite. The heavy metals are cemented out of solution using zinc or other selected dust at a pH of 6 or greater under unique and unexpected conditions, which do not require acid. Simonkolleite/zinc- oxychloride/zinc-hydroxide is produced from the purified zinc chloride complex pregnant leach solution and is converted directly to high purity active rubber grade 99+% zinc oxide having small particle size and high surface area. The products are metal concentrates suitable for: metal refiner/processors, production of elemental metal, or other conversion processes. The process removes Arsenic and Fluorides in the feed material. The process also solves the problem of chloride contamination in the zinc oxide and prevents heavy metal contaminants in the hydrometallurgically produced zinc oxide derived from feed stocks containing chlorides or when chlorides are used to leach the metal bearing feed stocks. In one embodiment, calcium and/or magnesium compounds are added to the iron bearing waste to increase the recovery of zinc and other non-ferrous metals and to produce an iron bearing flux. The process is environmentally friendly and fully recycles all streams.

The invention relates to a carbon-coated ferrous sulfide negative electrode material, the preparation method and the prepared sodium ion battery thereof, Carbon-coated ferrous sulfide anode material refers to carbon-coated ferrous sulfide and its doped modified material, wherein the particle size of the ferrous sulfide is 100-500 nm, the mass of the carbon coating layer is 3-30% of the mass of theelectrode material, the doping modification elements are one or several of M=Co, Ni, Mn, Ti, Cu, Mg, Ba, Pb, Al, etc., and the mass of the doping modification elements is 0-30% of the mass of the negative electrode material. A metal sulfate and a carbon source are added into deionized water, stirred and dissolved uniformly at room temperature, freeze-dried to obtain a precursor, and calcined at high temperature in an inert atmosphere to obtain a carbon-coated ferrous sulfide negative electrode material. As that negative electrode material of the sodium ion battery, the invention has the advantage of abundant raw materials, simple preparation, short preparation period, low cost, no pollution, good rate performance and strong cycle stability, and is suitable for large-scale production.

The invention relates to a solid adsorbent and a preparation method thereof, mainly solving the problems of low adsorption capacity and higher regeneration temperature of the adsorbent in the prior art. By adopting the technical scheme that a compound solid adsorbent is prepared by combining at least one kind of halide of alkali metal, halide of alkaline earth metal or metal sulfates with a molecular sieve, the invention better solves the problems and can be used for industrial production of adsorption and purification of various hydrocarbon raw materials.

The present invention relates to a magnesium base flue gas wet desulfurization catalyst, which can be poured into a desulfurization absorption tower so as to prompt a desulfurization medium magnesium base compound well be dispersed in a desulfurization slurry, and contains an organic acid, an organic acid sodium salt and a metal sulfate. According to the present invention, the catalyst or synergist is added to the desulfurization absorption tower, such that the activity, the concentration and the mass transfer of the desulfurization element magnesium ions can be increased, and the oxidation process of magnesium sulfite can be accelerated so as to increase the sulfur dioxide removal rate and achieve the purposes of energy saving and emission reducing.

Disclosed is a resin composition comprising (A) a saponified ethylene-vinyl ester copolymer and (B) a completely or partially dehydrated polyvalent metal sulfate hydrate. Preferably, the component (B) is a completely or partially dehydrated 2-valent metal sulfate hydrate. The resin composition can suppress increasing viscosity in preparation thereof as well as production of the multilayer structure therefrom. A molded article can be stably produced and recover quickly gas barrier property deteriorated by hot water treatment and additionally maintain the superior gas barrier property.

Two classes of hybrid/thermochemical water splitting processes for the production of hydrogen and oxygen have been proposed based on (1) metal sulfate-ammonia cycles (2) metal pyrosulfate-ammonia cycles. Methods and systems for a metal sulfate MSO₄—NH₃ cycle for producing H₂ and O₂ from a closed system including feeding an aqueous (NH₃)₄SO₃ solution into a photoctalytic reactor to oxidize the aqueous (NH₃)₄SO₃ into aqueous (NH₃)₂SO₄ and reduce water to hydrogen, mixing the resulting aqueous (NH₃)₂SO₄ with metal oxide (e.g. ZnO) to form a slurry, heating the slurry of aqueous (NH₄)₂SO₄ and ZnO(s) in the low temperature reactor to produce a gaseous mixture of NH₃ and H₂O and solid ZnSO₄(s), heating solid ZnSO₄ at a high temperature reactor to produce a gaseous mixture of SO₂ and O₂ and solid product ZnO, mixing the gaseous mixture of SO₂ and O₂ with an NH₃ and H₂O stream in an absorber to form aqueous (NH₄)₂SO₃ solution and separate O₂ for aqueous solution, recycling the resultant solution back to the photoreactor and sending ZnO to mix with aqueous (NH₄)₂SO₄ solution to close the water splitting cycle wherein gaseous H₂ and O₂ are the only products output from the closed ZnSO₄—NH₃ cycle.

An electrochemical process for the recovery of metallic iron or an iron-rich alloy, oxygen and sulfuric acid from iron-rich metal sulfate wastes is described. Broadly, the electrochemical process comprises providing an iron-rich metal sulfate solution; electrolyzing the iron-rich metal sulfate solution in an electrolyzer comprising a cathodic compartment equipped with a cathode having a hydrogen over- potential equal or higher than that of iron and containing a catholyte having a pH below about 6.0; an anodic compartment equipped with an anode and containing an anolyte; and a separator allowing for anion passage; and recovering electrodeposited iron or iron-rich alloy, sulfuric acid and oxygen gas. Electrolyzing the iron-rich metal sulfate solution causes iron or an iron-rich alloy to be electrodeposited at the cathode, nascent oxygen gas to evolve at the anode, sulfuric acid to accumulate in the anodic compartment and an iron depleted solution to be produced.

The invention relates to a composite metal sulfate system flue-gas-denitration catalyst and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to the technical fields of environmental-friendly catalytic materials and atmospheric pollution control. The catalyst and the preparation method thereof are characterized in that titanium dioxide is used as a carrier, ceric sulfate is used as an active component, and a transition-metal sulfate is used as a cocatalyst; the weight percent of the active component of the catalyst is 1-25% based on the weight of the carrier; and the weight ratio of the active component to the auxiliary is 1: (0.1-0.9). The catalyst is prepared by utilization of a direct sulfate-dipping method. Compared with technical performances of selective catalytic reduction (SCR) denitration catalysts at present, the catalyst provided by the invention broadens the middle/high-temperature denitration active temperature window, and enhances vapor-poison tolerance and sulfur dioxide poison tolerance of the catalyst significantly. The preparation technology of the catalyst is simple, environmental friendly, cheap, and free of secondary pollution.

The invention provides a process for electrolyzing and refining lead, zinc and copper through a wet method. The process includes the specific steps that an alkalescent complexing solution with high complexing capacity is selected as a leaching solution and all valuable metals are leached out; impurities of the leaching solution are removed through a metal replacement mode; deposited lead or deposited zinc or deposited copper and oxygen are obtained through an electrolytic method; then the solution is subjected to desulfuration and desilicication through calcium oxide or calcium hydroxide; and finally, the lead or the zinc or the copper is obtained after being refined. The alkalescent complexing solution is adopted for leaching and electrolyzing, so that the problems that the leaching rate is low and metal silicates and ferrates are hard to dissolve in terms of current metal smelting with the wet method are solved. Compounds of calcium or barium are adopted for desulfuration of metal sulfates, so that the problem of high desulfuration cost caused by current desulfuration through sodium carbonate or sodium hydroxide is solved. The potential of hydrogen (pH) value of the alkalescent complexing solution is controlled to be 7.5-13.5, the electrolytic voltage is substantially lowered, and the energy consumption is effectively reduced.