Abstract:
A method for removing and recovering ammonium and/or potassium and/or phosphate ions from wastewater is presented which comprises:permitting said wastewater to pass through at least one bed of ion-exchange resins capable of removing selectively those nutrient ionsregenerating those ion-exchange resins with a Na Cl solution or other suitable regenerant solutions so that said nutrient ions may be obtained in a much more concentrated formadding to said regeneration eluates (or, eventually, directly to wastewater) at least one Mg salt, in proper pH conditions so as to precipitate hydrous MgNH.sub.4 PO.sub.4 and/or MgKPO.sub.4, slightly soluble salts of great agronomic value.
Abstract:
The invention concerns a counter-current adsorption filter for the treatment of liquids, with different adsorbents which require different regenerating agents, in which loading of the different adsorbents is effected in a stream of liquid flowing upwards and regeneration of the different loaded adsorbents with the different regenerating agents is effected in a stream of liquid flowing downwards, the inside of which filter is subdivided, by horizontal devices which are permeable to liquid, into a number of chambers corresponding to the number of different adsorbents to be used; in which the adsorbents which are regenerated with different regenerating agents are present in adjacent chambers; the chambers--with the exception of the topmost chamber of the filter--are equipped with a liquid drainage system which is located below the device which is permeable to liquid and forms the upper boundary of the chamber, and which is embedded in a layer of inert material; and in which the individual chambers are filled with a certain amount of adsorbent. The invention furthermore concerns a process for the operation of this letter.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for treating wastewater containing ammonia by passing the wastewater over a bed of ion exchange particles capable of exchanging ammonium and having a growth of nitrifying bacteria thereon. The wastewater is preferably first oxygenated and then passed through a biological filter, a solids filter, and an organic filter before reaching the ion exchange particles.
Abstract:
THIS INVENTION RELATES TO A METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF AN ACID, SUCH AS PHOSPHORIC, SULFURIC, ARSENIC, SULFUROUS, ETC., BY CONTACTING A MOTHER LIQUOR COMPRISING A SATURATED SOLUTION OF A SALT OF THE ACID WITH THE ACID AND A MATERIAL CONTAINING A SALT OF THE ACID AND THE SUBSEQUENT SEPARATION OF SUSPENDED CRYSTALS FROM SAID MOTHER LIQUOR FOR CONVERSION TO THE ACID BY CONTACT WITH AN ION EXCHANGE RESIN.
Abstract:
In a process of forming a chromate coating on a series of articles of one of the metals, zinc, alloys consisting predominantly of zinc, magnesium, cadmium, copper, silver or brass by treating them with a single aqueous acidic solution containing hexavalent chromium in which the metal or trivalent chromium tends to accumulate in the solution during the treatment and interfere with the coating, the concentration of interfering metal is maintained at a level below that at which it deletenously affects the coating by withdrawing portions of the solution, passing them through a bed of a cation-exchange resin in a form containing both hydrogen ions and other cations that are harmless to the coating in proportions such that the solution is maintained in the effective pH range, and then returning them to the main body of the solution. The other cations may be those of alkali metals or ammonium. Treatment of the solution (which may also contain simple or complex fluoride ions, phosphate ions, sulphate ions, chloride ions, nitrate ions, ferricyanide ions, or arsenate ions) with the resin may be either continuous or intermittent; and two beds of resin are preferably used so that treatment of the solution and regeneration of the resin may be performed simultanously.