Abstract:
THE SOLUTION THEREBY FORMING BISULFITE. THE REDUCING AGENT CONSUMED MAY BE REFORMED BY ELECTROLYTICALLY REDUCING BUSULFITE AND/OR SULFUR DIOXID IN THE CATHODE COMPARTMENT OF AN ELECTROLYIC CELL WITH THE RESULTING REFORMED REDUCING AGENT RECYCLED FOR ADDITIONAL OXIDANT REMOVAL. THE PH OF THE SYSTEM IS CONTROLLED BY ADDING LIME AND SODA ASH EQUIVALENT TO THE AMOUNT OF SULFUR DIOXIDE OXIDIZED OR BY CRYSTALLIZING SULFATE SALTS OUT OF PART OF THE ANOLYTE BISULFATE EFFLUENT FROM THE ELECTROLYTIC CELLS, THEREBY REMOVING AND RECOVERING SULFURIC ACID FROM THE SYSTEM.
THIS INVENTION IS DIRECTED TO A CONTINUOUS CYCLIC PROCESS FOR THE ABSORPTION OF SULFUR DIOXIDE AND/OR NITROGEN OXIDES (CAPABLE OF OXIDIZING BISULFITE) INTO SOLUTION FROM A GAS CONTAINING MINOR AMOUNTS OF NITROGEN OXIDES, SULFUR DIOXIDE WITH OR WITHOUT OXYGEN AND/OR OTHER OXIDANTS WITH SUBSEQUENT RECOVERY OF A CONCENTRATED SULFUR DIOXIDE GAS STREAM. ELECTROLYTICALLY PRODUCED REDUCING AGENTS SUCH AS SODIUM DITHIONITE ARE ADDED TO THE ABSORBING SOLUTION TO ABSORB NITROGEN OXIDES, TO CONTROL THE PH OF THE SYSTEM AND ALSO TO PREVENT LOSS OF RECOVERABLE SULFUR DIOXIDE FROM THE UNDESIRED OXIDATION OF SAID SULFUR DIOXIDE WHICH OXIDATION OTHERWISE GENERALLY OCCURS WITHIN THE ABSORBER. SUITABLE REDUCING AGENTS ARE THOSE WHICH WILL PREFERENTIALLY REACT WITH AND REMOVE DISSOLVED OXIDANTS PRESENT IN
Abstract:
THE INVENTION IS DIRECTED TO THE DEIOIZATION OF WATER BY EMPLOYING CATION EXCHANGE RESINS IN THE ALKALINE EARTH FORM SUCH AS CALCIUM AND ANION EXCHANGE RSINS IN THE CARBONATE FORM. THE CALCIUM AND CARBONATE IONS RELEASED FROM THE RESIN DURING THE DEIONIZATION PROCESS PRECIPITATES OUT AS INSOLUBLE CALCIUM CARBONATE TO GIVE AN EFFLUENT FROM THE RESIN EXCHANGER OF POTABLE WATER. REGENERATION OF THE RESINS BACK TO THEIR INITIAL IONIC FORM MAY BE ACCOMPLISHED IN A MIXED BED WITHOUT THE NECESSITY OF SEPARATING THE RESINS. REGENERATION IS PREFORMED BY CONTACTING THE BED WITH A LIME SLURRY, RINSING FREE OF UNABSORBED CALCIUM AND HYDROCIDE IONS AND THEN TREATING WITH CO2. TO CARBONATE THE ANION RESIN. THE RESIN IS THEN READY FOR ANOTHER DEIONIZATION CYCLE.
Abstract:
THIS IS A CYCLIC PROCESS FOR THE REMOVAL AND RECOVERY OF SULFUR DIOXIDE FROM WASTE STACK GASES TO LESSEN ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION. THE PROCESS INVOLVES: (A) ELECTROLYTICALLY CONVERTING A SALT SOLUTION INTO AN ACID AND BASE; (B) EMPLOYING THE BASE TO ABSORB THE SULFUR DIOXIDE FROM THE WASTE GAS; (C) NEUTRALIZING THE RESULTING SPENT BASE WITH THE ELECTROLYTICALLY PRODUCED ACID TO REFORM THE ORIGINAL SALT SOLUTION AND TO REALEASE THE ABSORBED SULFUR DIOXIDE GAS, AND
(D) RECYCLING THE SALT SOLUTION TO THE ELECTROLYTIC CELL AND RECOVERING SULFUR DIOXIDE GAS.
Abstract:
This invention is directed to apparatus and methods for separating weakly ionizable substances from mixtures of the same such as carbon dioxide from an enclosed atmosphere. One method employs a four compartment electrolytic cell comprised of end electrodes, a planar anion exchange membrane therebetween, a corrugated cation exchange membrane between and in contact with the anode electrode and the planar membrane and a corrugated anion exchange membrane between and in contact with the cathode electrode and the planar membrane. The projections of each corrugated membrane make point contact with the adjacently placed electrode and planar membrane to form an anode, stripper, scrubber and cathode compartment. In operation the CO2 contaminated air is passed into the scrubber compartment; water is passed through the remaining compartments and a D.C. current is passed between the electrodes to result in the recovery of partially purified air from the scrubber compartment.