57108 results about "Wastewater" patented technology

The invention is directed to methods, apparatuses, and systems for treatment of a liquid flow comprising addition of a chemical treatment at at least two locations along a side stream of a main flow of said liquid, in which the dosing by such additions is sufficient to treat the entire main flow upon return of the side stream to the main flow. Algorithms are utilized to control the additions at the locations of addition of chemical treatments. In a typical embodiment, one chemical addition is principally proportional to the flow rate of the liquid flow, and the other chemical addition is principally adjusted based on signals from a primary measuring device that measures a parameter in the flow after one or both chemical additions. The addition of chlorine dioxide as the chemical treatment, to disinfect wastewater, is discussed.

A configurable robotic apparatus and system is disclosed that is remotely operable in difficult, hazardous, subterranean, or submerged environs. The apparatus merges diverse disciplines to effect inspecting, cleaning, treating, repairing or otherwise maintaining a wide variety of materials and conditions. Deployment environments include power, municipal water and wastewater plants, surface and submerged infrastructures (pipes, lines, conduits), and like industrial applications. Extensible and articulating modules, configurable through standardized and interchangeable connectors, provide unique flexibility, scalability and versatility to accommodate a wide range of shapes, surfaces, and obstacles. In-module intelligence and instrumentation eliminates the need for constant manual control through autonomous operation capable of simultaneous optimization and synchronization of multiple work processes, but manual override and remote control is provided to overcome unanticipated limitations. Benefits include improved efficiency, cost, and safety over prior art. High-performance, one-pass operation reduces facility downtime while incorporating environmentally responsible debris recovery.

The present invention provides a method of removing a fluorinated surfactant from waste water comprising fluoropolymer particles. The method comprises (i) adding a non-fluorinated surfactant to the waste water (ii) contacting the thus obtained waste water with adsorbent particles to adsorb at least a portion of the fluorinated surfactant to the adsorbent particles and (iii) separating the waste water and the adsorbent particles.

The present invention relates to a process and apparatus for processing agricultural waste to make alcohol and / or biodiesel. The agricultural wastes are subjected to anaerobic digestion which produces a biogas stream containing methane, which is subsequently reformed to a syngas containing carbon monoxide and hydrogen. The syngas is converted to an alcohol which may be stored, sold, used, or fed directly to a reactor for production of biodiesel. The solids effluent from the anaerobic digester can be further utilized as slow release, organic certified fertilizer. Additionally, the wastewater from the process is acceptable for immediate reuse in agricultural operations.

A method or process for treating wastewater containing high organics, silica, boron, hardness, and suspended and dissolved solids. The method includes degasifying the wastewater for the removal of dissolved gases and thereafter chemically softening the wastewater. After the chemical softening step, the wastewater is directed through a media filter or membrane which removes additional solids and precipitants. Thereafter the wastewater is directed through a sodium ion exchange that further softens the wastewater. The effluent from the ion exchange is directed through a cartridge filter and the effluent from the cartridge filter is directed through one or more reverse osmosis units. At a selected phase of the process, prior to the wastewater reaching the reverse osmosis unit or units, the pH of the wastewater is raised and maintained such that the pH of the wastewater reaching a reverse osmosis unit is at a pH greater than 10.5.

Provided is a method for purifying a biodiesel fuel while completely preventing or greatly reducing generation of waste water. The present invention relates to a method for purifying a biodiesel fuel characterized by applying an electric field to or heating a crude biodiesel fuel and a method for purifying a biodiesel fuel characterized by adding water (preferably containing a demulsifier such as an inorganic calcium salt or a magnesium salt) to a crude biodiesel fuel to form W / O emulsion, and breaking the emulsion by application of an electric field or heating, etc.

The invention provides a method for resourceful treatment of restaurant garbage, which is characterized in that the restaurant garbage is completely degraded after treatment with the working procedures of oil separating, preliminary selecting, mechanical crushing, hydraulic pulping, slurry blending, anaerobic fermentation and oxygen-control composting, finally the marsh gas is decomposed via anaerobic digestion and is utilized as energy after desulfurization treatment; the high-quality organic manure is produced from the biogas residues via oxygen-control composting; the separated oil can be recycled as the regenerated industrial raw oil; the wastewater generated in the treatment process can be recycled, and finally the redundant wastewater reaching the standard is discharged after biochemical treatment; and the odor generated by the garbage in the treatment process is directly discharged after reaching the standard via biofiltration treatment, thus the restaurant garbage can be transformed into the clean regenerated energy of electric power and the pollution-free organic manure to completely realize resourceful treatment of restaurant garbage. The resourceful treatment of restaurant garbage has the advantages of innocuity, no peculiar smell, no secondary pollution during the treatment process and realization of harmless and resourceful treatment of restaurant garbage.

The composite phosphate-free scale inhibiting corrosion inhibitor for treating circular cooling water consists of scale inhibitor and corrosion inhibitor. The scale inhibitor consists of one or several of PASP, PVA, oxidized starch, polyacrylic acid, acrylic acid / acrylate copolymer and acrylic acid / acrylate copolymer with sulfo radical. The corrosion inhibitor consists of one or several of sodium salt / potassium salt / ammonium salt of organic salt, sodium / potassium / ammonium borate, nitrous organic matter, soluble molybdenate, soluble tungstate, soluble nitrate, soluble nitrite and soluble zinc salt. The composite scale inhibiting corrosion inhibitor has excellent scale inhibiting and corrosion inhibiting performance, is environment friendly, and is especially the treatment of hard circulation water with high calcium and high alkali content.

The invention relates to a microwave photocatalytic wastewater degradation device allowing greatly expanding single pot treating capacity and belongs to the technical field of wastewater treatment. The existing microwave photocatalytic degradation technology aiming at industrial wastewater containing organic pollutants has the problems of microwave energy waste and small practical single pot wastewater treating capacity; in addition, in the prior art, the phenomenon of scale deposit can occur after the outer side surface of a quartz tube for shielding an electrodeless ultraviolet lamp is soaked in wastewater for a long time, a scale layer formed by the scale deposit blocks the permeability of light and also affects the wastewater treatment efficiency of the existing device; and the microwave photocatalytic wastewater degradation device aims at solving all the problems. The device adopts the structure that the electrodeless ultraviolet lamp is arranged in a wire mesh cage-shaped non-light tight microwave restraint made of metal material, and leads microwave into the restraint to restrain the microwave, so that microwave is free from inconducive dissipation, the design volume of a reactor is allowed to be greatly expanded based on the structure, and further the single pot wastewater treating capacity of the reactor is greatly enhanced. The device instantaneously eliminates the scale layer through high-frequency ultrasonic wave.

The invention discloses a method for preparing sodium dihydrogen phosphate by utilizing phosphoric acid by wet process. The method comprises the steps of carrying out reaction on carbamide and the phosphoric acid by the wet process to obtain intermediate, and then carrying out a reaction on the intermediate and sodium hydroxide to obtain the sodium dihydrogen phosphate product. The method is short in process route, low in energy consumption, stable in product quality, low in production cost, convenient to operate and safe in production; the by-product slurry can be completely recycled; the whole production process is environment-friendly, clean and free from pollution as well as emission of waste gas, waste water and waste residue; therefore, the method responses to the policy of energy conservation and emission reduction as well as clean production, and solves the problems of complicated technology, unstable product quality, high energy consumption, environmental pollution and the like in the prior art; the obtained sodium dihydrogen phosphate product has the purity of more than or equal to 98%.

A system and method of treating wastewater from an animal confinement operation. The system including at least a first lagoon receiving water from the confinement operation. The system further including a free surface water wetland, a subsurface flow wetland and a vertical flow recirculating media filter. The first artificial wetland including a pipe such that water from the lagoon flows into the first artificial wetland through an inlet of the pipe and is contained within the wetland. The first wetland further including a plurality of wetland plants. A second subsurface flow wetland and a vertical flow recirculating media filter on top of the subsurface flow wetland and wetland plants contained within a first pea gravel bed on top of a coarse gravel bed of the subsurface flow media filter such that water from the lagoon is received by the first wetland. A recirculation pump receiving water from the horizontal coarse gravel bed and the pump recirculating water to the wetland plants of the vertical flow recirculation media filter such that ammonia in the water is converted to nitrate and water as it falls vertically through roots of the wetland plants and the nitrate is converted to nitrogen and water the water flows horizontally through the subsurface flow wetland.

A solid phase mixed solvent polymer, compositions and methods for removing and retaining solvated organic compounds and inorganic ions from water, wastewater, superficial and ground water, soil and other environmental sources, a soil amendment and method resulting from adhesively coating the polymer onto sand along with at least one ion exchange material, and methods for the containment, reduction, and prevention of organic leaching from soils, agricultural, industrial, and commercial environments, and in particular, sports and athletic turf facilities such as golf courses where pesticides are frequently applied.