Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Process to convert bisulphide to elemental sulphur
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Application No.: US16616641Application Date: 2018-05-30
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Publication No.: US11548785B2Publication Date: 2023-01-10
- Inventor: Johannes Bernardus Maria Klok , Annemiek Ter Heijne , Frederikus De Rink , Cees Jan Nico Buisman
- Applicant: Paqell B.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Utrecht
- Assignee: Paqell B.V.
- Current Assignee: Paqell B.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Utrecht
- Agency: Nixon Peabody LLP
- Agent Ronald I. Eisenstein; Nicole D. Kling
- Priority: EP17173888 20170601
- International Application: PCT/EP2018/064151 WO 20180530
- International Announcement: WO2018/219991 WO 20181206
- Main IPC: C01B17/05
- IPC: C01B17/05 ; B01D53/84 ; C02F3/00 ; C02F3/28 ; C02F3/34 ; G01N27/49 ; C12P3/00 ; C12Q3/00

Abstract:
The invention is directed to a control method for a process to convert bisulphide to elemental sulphur in an aqueous solution comprising sulphide-oxidising bacteria wherein the process is controlled by applying a potential between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode or between the anode electrode and the reference electrode of an electrochemical cell resulting in a current between the cathode electrode and the anode electrode, measuring a current as measured by an electrochemical cell and adapting the process in response to the measured current. The process to convert bisulphide may comprise the following steps: (a) contacting bisulphide with oxidised sulphide-oxidising bacteria in the aqueous solution and elemental sulphur, (b) oxidizing the reduced sulphide-oxidising bacteria, (c) using the oxidised sulphide-oxidising bacteria obtained in step (b) in step (a) and (d) isolating elemental sulphur from the aqueous solution obtained in step (a) and/or step (b).
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