Abstract:
A composite medium and method thereof for simultaneous removal of cationic and anionic heavy metals are provided to remove cationic and anionic heavy metals effectively. The method includes dissolving sodium alginate powder into deionized water to provide an alginate solution, and introducing amine group-supported mesoporous iron oxide and synthetic zeolite into the alginate solution and kneading the resultant mixture. The method also includes adding the alginate solution mixed with the mesoporous iron oxide and synthetic zeolite dropwise to an aqueous calcium chloride solution so that each drop of alginate solution is cured to form a bead-like composite medium, and vacuum drying the bead-like composite medium to remove water present in the composite medium, while the mesoporous iron oxide and synthetic zeolite are moved from the inside of the composite medium toward the surface of the composite medium.
Abstract:
Industrial waste derived adsorbents were obtained by pyrolysis of sewage sludge, metal sludge, waste oil sludge and tobacco waste in some combination. The materials were used as media to remove hydrogen sulfide at room temperature in the presence of moisture. The initial and exhausted adsorbents after the breakthrough tests were characterized using sorption of nitrogen, thermal analysis, XRD, ICP, and surface pH measurements. Mixing tobacco and sludges result in a strong synergy enhancing the catalytic properties of adsorbents. During pyrolysis new mineral phases are formed as a result of solid state reaction between the components of the sludges. High temperature of pyrolysis is beneficial for the adsorbents due to the enhanced activation of carbonaceous phase and chemical stabilization of inorganic phase. Samples obtained at low temperature are sensitive to water, which deactivates their catalytic centers.
Abstract:
The invention concerns a capture mass for capturing heavy metals in a liquid or gaseous effluent, comprising a porous solid support, copper sulphide and at least one second metal sulphide the metal of which is selected from the group constituted by chromium, manganese, iron, cobalt and nickel, and in which the ratio of the percentage by weight of the metal or metals other than copper to the percentage by weight of copper is in the range 0.01 to 2. The invention also concerns a process for preparing said capture mass and a process for capturing heavy metals in a gaseous or liquid effluent, in which said effluent is brought into contact with said capture mass.
Abstract:
A thermally treated expanded perlite that can be coated or impregnated with at least one active material and the use of the thermally treated expanded perlite as a light-weight filtration media. Methods for forming thermally treated expanded perlite as well as methods for forming thermally treated perlite coated or impregnated with an active material are also disclosed.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a system and a method for treating waste water using a passive phosphorus-capture filter lined with wood activated by the impregnation of a metal in the form of hydroxide, more specifically aluminum hydroxide or iron hydroxide. This system demonstrates phosphorus removal performances which are very closely linked to the release of iron and which support the observation that iron releases follow a cyclical trend. The method according to the invention also clearly demonstrates the cyclical nature of the reduction of phosphorus, directly linked to the same cycle of iron release at the outlet. When the medium is aerobic, it can precipitate the released iron in the form of hydroxide and thereby limit the release of iron into the outflow water and consequently its residual phosphorus. This model thus allows the service life of the system to be extended, while simultaneously taking advantage of the precipitation/solubilisation cycle of the iron observed in the medium under reducing conditions.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a process for preparing ball-type desulfurizer with high sulfur capacity, comprising the following steps: placing initial balls in a rolling equipment; wetting the surface of the initial balls with an aqueous solution of an organic binder; then alternately adding non-crystalline iron oxide hydroxide and the aqueous solution of the organic binder to gradually form small balls of non-crystalline iron oxide hydroxide with high sulfur capacity and different diameters; and adjusting the shape of the small balls and then roasting or naturally drying the small balls. In the desulfurizer prepared by this method, the initial balls constitutes 0.98 wt %-9.03 wt % of the desulfurizer, the non-crystalline iron oxide hydroxide constitutes 90.29 wt %-98.62 wt % of the desulfurizer, and the organic binder constitutes 0.58 wt %-0.89 wt % of the desulfurizer. The present invention solves the problems that the desulfurizer with high sulfur capacity in the prior art has a high binder content and poor water resistance and diffusion performance, and provides a process for preparing a desulfurizer with high sulfur capacity, wherein a desulfurizer with high sulfur capacity and low binder content, good water resistance, good diffusion performance can be prepared.
Abstract:
There is provided a method of producing a radioactive cesium decontaminator, including: suspending magnetic particles in a solvent, and coating each magnetic particle with organic monomer or polymer, to thereby form a precursor; adding a ferrocyanide aqueous solution and an aqueous solution containing at least one kind of transition metal into a suspension liquid containing the precursor after coating while applying a strong shear force, to thereby generate a radioactive cesium decontaminator; and removing water content from a slurry containing the obtained radioactive cesium decontaminator.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an oxygen absorbing agent composition comprising a compound (A) having two or more tetralin rings, and a transition metal catalyst.
Abstract:
The invention discloses a micron-grade magnetic core coated ferrocyanide adsorbent for removing Cs ions in radioactive wastewater and a preparation method thereof. The adsorbent takes magnetic Fe3O4 as a core, the surface is coated with a dense SiO2 single layer serving as a protective layer, and an active component is metal ion stabilized potassium ferrocyanide coated on the outer layer, wherein stabilized metal ions comprise Ti, Zn, Cu, Ni, Co, and Zr. The particle size of the adsorbent is 0.2-5 μm, the adsorbent in the outermost layer is conductive to improving the adsorption efficiency for Cs+ ions, and an external magnetic field is adopted for realizing solid-liquid phase separation. The preparation method comprises the following steps: coating a hydrated metal oxide of Ti, Zr or Co, Ni, Cu or Zn on the surface of Fe3O4SiO2 to form a composite magnetic material, wherein the hydrated oxide performs hydroxyl polymerization reaction with the surface of SiO2 to produce M—O—Si bonds to improve the bonding strength between M and the surface of SiO2; and finally reacting the composite magnetic material with a potassium ferrocyanide solution to form the required composite adsorbent, wherein the metal ions M achieve the effects of stabilizing the ferrocyanide and also achieve a bridge effect for bonding the ferrocyanide and the composite magnetic material together.
Abstract:
Methods using homogeneous precipitation of a metal on a surface of a particle to prepare silica particles having the metal adsorbed thereon are disclosed herein. In certain embodiments, the silica particles having the metal adsorbed thereon can be used to prepare carbon coated silica particles. The carbon coated silica particles can be useful in a wide variety of applications including, for example, for use as sorbents in chromatography.