Purifying contaminated water. [DOE patent application]

Daughton, C G

Title: Purifying contaminated water. [DOE patent application]

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Process is presented for removing biorefactory compounds from contaminated water (e.g., oil shale retort waste-water) by contacting same with fragmented raw oil shale. Biorefractory removal is enhanced by preactivating the oil shale with at least one member of the group of carboxylic acids, alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, ethers, amines, amides, sulfoxides, mixed ether-esters and nitriles. Further purification is obtained by stripping, followed by biodegradation and removal of the cells.

Inventors:: Daughton, C G

Issue Date:: 1981-10-27

OSTI Identifier:: 5371146

Application Number:: ON: DE82016119

Assignee:: Dept. of Energy

DOE Contract Number:: W-7405-ENG-48

Resource Type:: Patent

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 04 OIL SHALES AND TAR SANDS; IN-SITU RETORTING; WASTE WATER; OIL SHALES; RETORTING; PURIFICATION; ALCOHOLS; ALDEHYDES; AMIDES; AMINES; BIODEGRADATION; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; ETHERS; KETONES; NITRILES; SULFOXIDES; USES; WATER TREATMENT; BITUMINOUS MATERIALS; CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; DECOMPOSITION; ENERGY SOURCES; FOSSIL FUELS; FUELS; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; HYDROXY COMPOUNDS; IN-SITU PROCESSING; LIQUID WASTES; MATERIALS; ORGANIC ACIDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC SULFUR COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PROCESSING; WASTES; WATER; 040900* - Oil Shales & Tar Sands- Waste management; 040400 - Oil Shales & Tar Sands- Oil Production, Recovery, & Refining

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  abstractNote = {Process is presented for removing biorefactory compounds from contaminated water (e.g., oil shale retort waste-water) by contacting same with fragmented raw oil shale. Biorefractory removal is enhanced by preactivating the oil shale with at least one member of the group of carboxylic acids, alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, ethers, amines, amides, sulfoxides, mixed ether-esters and nitriles. Further purification is obtained by stripping, followed by biodegradation and removal of the cells.},

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