Recovery of mercury from acid waste residues

Patent · Fri Feb 27 00:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:6789410

Greenhalgh, W O

Mercury can be recovered from nitric acid-containing fluids by reacting the fluid with aluminum metal to produce mercury metal, and thence quenching the reactivity of the nitric acid prior to nitration of the mercury metal. 1 fig.

• Research Organization: Westinghouse Hanford Co., Richland, WA (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76FF02170
• Assignee: TIC; ERA-14-000131; EDB-88-182629
• Patent Number(s): PATENTS-US-A6019834
• OSTI ID: 6789410
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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