Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Donald J. Firca
  • Catalytic fixed bed reactor systems for the destruction of contaminants in water by hydrogen peroxide and ozone
    Patent number: 6767472
    Abstract: A process for the treatment of an aqueous media having contaminants therein, including adding hydrogen peroxide to the aqueous media, exposing the aqueous media to a catalytic environment, removing the aqueous media from the catalytic environment prior to the aqueous media having a five minute residence time within the catalytic environment, thereafter adding ozone to the aqueous media, and allowing the ozone and aqueous media to interact outside of the presence of the catalytic environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2004
    Assignee: The University of Akron
    Inventor: Christopher M. Miller