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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| 20120034594 | Methylocystis Strain SB2 Materials and Methods The present disclosures provides isolated or purified compounds, each of which bind to a metal atom. Generally, the compounds are small in size (e.g, molecular weight of less than about 1 kDa) and peptidic in nature, inasmuch as the compounds comprise amino acids. In so... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120024782 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TREATING AN OIL SPILL A method for enhancing biodegradation of oil in water, the method comprising:
| 02/02/2012 |
| 20110290722 | ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS IN WASTEWATER TREATMENT The present disclosure relates to methods of treating highly contaminated wastewater using waste activated sludge as an adsorbent.... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110278221 | INSTALLATION FOR THE TREATMENT OF UREA-CONTAINING WATER, TOILET, STABLE, AND METHOD The invention relates to a device for treating urea-containing water. The invention also relates to a domestic toilet provided with such a device. The invention also relates to an animal accommodation provided with such a device. In addition, the invention comprises a m... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110163028 | Biofilm Reactor Containing Spiral Structure and Water Treatment Device Using the Same The present invention provides a biofilm reactor comprising a spiral structure and a water treatment facility using the same. The biofilm reactor comprises an inlet pipe for supplying water, an air supply pipe for supplying air, and an outlet pipe for discharging the wa... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110100908 | Waste Water Treatment In the treatment of domestic and municipal waste water environmental pollutants, such as ammonia, oxides of nitrogen, organic matter which gives rise to what is known as chemical oxygen demand (COD) [and biological oxygen demand (BOD)], and solid matter, should be remov... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110084416 | MIXING SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF MIXING A system for mixing and mixing processes and structures are disclosed. In addition a nozzle used for mixing is disclosed.... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110068058 | APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR TREATING WASTEWATER An apparatus for treating wastewater is provided, which comprises a biological reaction tank and a membrane separation device. The membrane separation device is provided outside the biological reaction tank. A mixing device is provided inside the biological reaction tan... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110042309 | SOLAR POWERED AERATION AND MICROBIAL INCUBATION SYSTEM Disclosed is a system and method for treating a body of water, without the necessity of being connected to an electrical grid, that includes photovoltaic collectors and a battery bank that is charged by the photovoltaic collectors. The photovoltaic collectors and the ba... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110011799 | PROCESS FOR REMOVING SULFIDE FROM ALKALINE WASHING LIQUIDS Alkaline solutions resulting from extracting sulfide from hydrocarbon fluids can be treated in a combination of one or more electrodialysis cells and a bioreactor. The electrodialysis cell (2) includes an anode (4), a cathode (5), an electric power ... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110011800 | BIOLOGICAL NITROGEN REMOVAL The present invention relates to a method of treating a liquid to extract at least one of carbon, sulphur, nitrogen or phosphate from liquids such as waste water. Preferably, the invention is employed to remove nitrogen from waste water. In an alternate for the inventio... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110000851 | High Performance Nitrifying Sludge For High Ammonium Concentration and Low Temperature Wastewater Treatment Compositions of bacteria which are effective for the nitrification of wastewater, particularly at low temperatures, are described. The compositions are comprised of 35 strains or populations of at least partially characterized isolated bacteria. These compositions may b... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110000850 | WATER TREATMENT A process for the treatment of water comprising at least the steps of: (a) providing the water in laminar flow; and (b) providing bubblefree aeration to the water. The present invention introduces aerobic treatment into wastewater settlement without any hindrance to the... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100300965 | DIFFUSER APPARATUS, AND DIFFUSER APPARATUS RUNNING METHOD The present invention provides a diffuser apparatus which has fine pores capable of achieving a high oxygen transfer efficiency and rarely becoming clogged so that the apparatus can be operated stably over a prolonged period. The diffuser apparatus according to the pres... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100264082 | SUSPENDED MEDIA GRANULAR ACTIVATED CARBON MEMBRANE BIOLOGICAL REACTOR SYSTEM AND PROCESS A system and process for treating an industrial wastewater stream is provided using a membrane biological reactor in which granular activated carbon material is introduced into an aeration portion and maintained upstream of a membrane operating system. The size of the g... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100258501 | Sequencing Batch Aerated Lagoon A sequencing batch lagoon process is carried out in a minimum of two earthen lagoons and provides the treatment of municipal or industrial wastewater. Each lagoon is operated on fill-draw basis in a sequencing manner. Raw wastewater continues entering into one of the la... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100252500 | TREATMENT OF SPENT CAUSTIC WASTE Systems and methods are provided for the treatment of caustic wastewater. Specifically, systems and methods are provided for combining refinery spent caustic and ethylene spent caustic solutions and treating the combined spent caustic mixture using a wet air oxidation p... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100227381 | ENHANCED BIODEGRADATION OF NON-AQUEOUS PHASE LIQUIDS USING SURFACTANT ENHANCED IN-SITU CHEMICAL OXIDATION A method for in-situ reduction of contaminants in soil that uses chemical oxidation and biodegradation.... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100218946 | Water Treatment Following Shale Oil Production By In Situ Heating A method for treating water at a water treatment facility is provided. In one aspect, the water has been circulated through a subsurface formation in a shale oil development area. The subsurface formation may comprise shale that has been spent due to pyrolysis of format... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100213123 | Ballasted sequencing batch reactor system and method for treating wastewater A ballasted sequencing batch reactor system for treating wastewater including one or more sequencing batch reactors. A weighting agent impregnation subsystem is configured to mix biological flocs and weighting agent to form weighted biological flocs. A weighting agent r... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100213122 | Waste Water Treatment The present invention relates to wastewater treatment in general and to methods of controlling odors and degrading compounds contained in wastewater in particular.... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100200501 | GREEN SYNTHESIS OF NANOMETALS USING PLANT EXTRACTS AND USE THEREOF The present invention relates to methods of making and using and compositions of metal nanoparticles formed by green chemistry synthetic techniques. For example, the present invention relates to metal nanoparticles formed with solutions of plant extracts and use of thes... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100200502 | SEPTIC SYSTEM REMEDIATION METHOD AND APPARATUS A wastewater treatment apparatus for a wastewater treatment system that includes a septic tank with a lower sludge layer, an upper effluent layer, and a tank floor. The wastewater treatment apparatus includes a positive pressure pump that is configured to pump a fluid, ... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100193433 | Vertical Land-Based Bioreactor A bioreactor for treating a liquid comprises a container having a vertical wall portion with at least one inlet port and at least one outlet port. The bioreactor also comprises a media support platform securely disposed inside the container at a position below the inlet... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100140168 | BIOAUGMENTATION TO REMEDIATE DIOXANE IN GROUNDWATER A biomethod using a consortium of Pseudomonas sp. to reduce contaminants such as 1,4-dioxane in groundwater.... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100096324 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING POLLUTION IN A BODY OF WATER A system and method reducing pollution in a body of water using biological processes is provided. The system includes a hydraulic dam generated by an induced downwelling of effluent water from a plurality of water circulating devices. A series of linearly arranged treat... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100072130 | CONTAMINATED INFLOW TREATMENT WITH MEMBRANE DISTILLATION BIOREACTOR A membrane distillation bioreactor (100) is provided for treating contaminated inflow such as wastewater. A contaminated inflow may be treated by biodegrading a contaminant in the inflow with a biological agent in the bioreactor to produce a lower contaminant inf... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100038311 | Entrapping immobilization pellets, wastewater treatment system using the entrapping immobilization pellets and wastewater treatment method The entrapping immobilization pellets satisfy conditions: (A) the deformation rate expressed by (H0−H1)/H0×100 is 70% or more, where the thickness of the pellets before compression is H0 and the thickness of the pellets at ... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100012582 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BIOLOGICAL WASTEWATER PURIFICATION The known activated sludge processes have several disadvantages. With the conventional sludge processes only a limited high dry matter content TSBB can be achieved in an activated sludge tank and a high amount of return sludge has to be pumped. The dry matter... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20090272690 | Method for the Treatment of Ammonia-Containing Waste Water A method for treating ammonium-containing waste water by means of a single sludge system in an SBR reactor, in which ammonium is converted to nitrite in a first reaction and ammonium and nitrite are converted into molecular nitrogen in a second reaction carried out in p... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090272689 | LIQUID AERATION APPARATUS AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT METHOD A liquid aeration apparatus includes a vessel having sidewalls, a closed bottom end and, a liquid outlet being provided at or near the upper end. The sidewalls define a cross-sectional interior open area with a vertical depth. An air diffuser is positioned within the in... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090242482 | METHOD OF BIOFILTRATION OF A LIQUID EFFLUENT A method of biofiltration of a liquid effluent by simultaneous nitrification and denitrification uses the adding of an oxygen source at a predetermined rate and optionally the adding of a carbon source (such as whey) thus enabling the complete transformation of the nitr... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090145844 | SEQUENCING BATCH MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR AND METHOD THEREOF A sequencing batch membrane bioreactor is provided, comprising a wastewater reservoir, at least one sequencing batch bioreactor, and a membrane reactor. The wastewater reservoir collects and stores wastewater. The sequencing batch bioreactor receives the wastewater in b... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090127191 | PROCESS FOR TREATING A SOLID-LIQUID MIXTURE A process is disclosed for treating a mixture of a solid and a liquid, the mixture including a contaminant. The process comprises the step of subjecting the mixture to cavitation wherein at least a portion of the contaminant is chemically decomposed. The process subsequ... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090114592 | METHOD FOR PURIFYING WASTE WATER WITH ADDED OXIDIZING AGENT The invention concerns a method for purifying wastewater loaded with organic matter, said method including: a step of contacting wastewater with a biological culture containing a purifying biomass and a step of separating performed by filtration through organic or inorg... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090071898 | NOVEL MICRO-ORGANISM FOR TREATING WASTE WATER AND CORRESPONDING METHOD The invention concerns a novel isolated microorganism characterized in that it is capable of: i) transforming Kjeldahl nitrogen, ammonia nitrogen and/or nitrogen oxides into gas nitrogen; and ii) transforming carbonaceous matter into carbon dioxide; both transformation ... | 03/19/2009 |
| 20090069181 | Product and Process for Treating Water Bodies, Sediments and Soils A solid form of an inorganic peroxide product and associated process for the treatment, remediation, etc. of natural, man-made, industrial, municipal, etc., water bodies such as ponds, streams, lakes, canals, paddies, tanks, lagoons, pools, pipelines, etc, especially th... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20090045134 | Ballast water intake and treatment system A ballast water intake and treatment system is disclosed, the system including a membrane treatment unit arranged in or on a ship hull for the separation of microorganisms of no smaller than a given size and organized to execute filtration during the intake of sea water... | 02/19/2009 |
| 20090039015 | Method of Wastewater Treatment with Excess Sludge Withdrawal Reduced A method of wastewater treatment that reduced equipment cost and running cost and realizes high efficiency implementation and further tank miniaturization, and that reduces excess sludge withdrawal. There is provided a method of wastewater treatment with excess sludge w... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20090039016 | Environmental Remediation Method Remediation for groundwater, soil, sediment bodies, bodies of water, tanks, pipes, and their surrounding areas are described. Remediation includes treating a site contaminated with toxic organic compounds by assessing for the presence or absence of suitable ozonophilic ... | 02/12/2009 |
