Patents by Inventor Hongqiang Ren

Hongqiang Ren has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20220187270
    Abstract: The invention relates to the technical field of environmental protection, in particular to a method for evaluating carbon source quality of a water body, an apparatus, a device and a readable storage medium. The invention provides a method for evaluating carbon source quality of a water body, including: acquiring COD and BOD5 of a first water body, wherein the first water body is a water body obtained after a water body to be measured is subjected to filtration treatment; acquiring an energy matter content in microbial cells in a second water body, wherein the second water body is a water body obtained after the first water body is subjected to anaerobic-aerobic treatment; and determining the carbon source quality of the water body to be measured according to a ratio of COD to BOD5 in the first water body and the energy matter content in the microbial cells in the second water body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Yinguang Chen, Xiong Zheng, Hongqiang Ren, Bing Wu
  • Patent number: 11360006
    Abstract: A method for separating microplastics from an animal feces, the method including: 1) freeze-drying an animal fecal sample; 2) transferring the animal fecal sample dried in 1) into a beaker, adding a Fenton's reagent; stirring a mixture of the animal fecal sample and the Fenton's reagent until no bubbles were produced; constantly adding the Fenton's reagent to the mixture; filtering the mixture through a plurality of cellulose nitrate-cellulose acetate (CN-CA) membranes, and transferring the plurality of CN-CA membranes into a plurality of 500 mL beakers; adding 100 mL of 65% HNO3 to each beaker, placing the each beaker in a water bath firstly at 50° C. for 30 min and then at 70° C. for 15 min; cooling the each beaker in an ice bath, and filtering a solution in the each beaker through a first polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) membrane; and 3) transferring the first PTFE membrane into a 500 mL beaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: NANJING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yan Zhang, Zehua Yan, Hongqiang Ren
  • Publication number: 20220136998
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for evaluation of removal of nitrogen-containing organic matter from the wastewater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Haidong Hu, Kewei Liao, Jinfeng Wang, Bing Wu, Hongqiang Ren
  • Patent number: 11299413
    Abstract: A method for modifying a wastewater treatment device, the method including: 1) fixing a filling support in a wastewater pool, where the filling support includes a support frame; the support frame includes a hollow shaft, a fixed ring, and at least one vane; 2) adjusting the height of the filling support, until the fixed ring is submerged below the liquid level of the wastewater pool, where the water intake velocity of the wastewater pool is no less than 0.25 m/s, whereby a water current is produced and drives the support frame to rotate; 3) adding a functional liquid into the hollow shaft; and 4) adding an enzyme mixture to the hollow shaft when the rotation speed of the support frame is less than a first preset value, until the rotation speed of the support frame reaches a second preset value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: NANJING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jinfeng Wang, Hongqiang Ren, Bing Wu
  • Publication number: 20220042963
    Abstract: A method for identifying and analyzing dissolved organic nitrogen of different sources in wastewater includes extracting DON in wastewater to obtain a DON extract, detecting mass spectrum peaks in the DON extract, pre-processing the spectral data of the wastewater sample; constructing a network relationship of the substance reaction in the wastewater sample; screening the substance reaction relationship of DON; and determining different sources of DON.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Haidong HU, Kewei LIAO, Hongqiang REN
  • Publication number: 20210354086
    Abstract: A method for simultaneously removing high-load sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide in waste gas, relating to the technical field of industrial waste gas purification by biological methods. According to the method, the waste gas is led into a simultaneous desulfurization and denitrification packing tower and removed, microbial floras for simultaneously removing the sulfur dioxide and the nitrogen oxide are loaded on fillers of the packing tower, and the molar concentration ratio of the sulfur dioxide to the nitrogen oxide in the waste gas is (0.76˜1.06):1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Kan LI, Xuxiang ZHANG, Hongqiang REN, Peishi SUN, Zhichao ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11168012
    Abstract: A method for achieving rapid startup of a denitrification biofilter tank, which belongs to the technical field of biofilm sewage treatment. The specific steps are: 1. selecting heterotrophic denitrification or mixotrophic denitrification to treat influent sewage; 2. when the heterotrophic denitrification is used, pretreating the filter material with sodium carboxymethyl cellulose solution and then adding rhamnolipid after the introduction of sewage until the biofilter tank system starts successfully; 3. when the mixotrophic denitrification method is used, the filter tank is inoculated after the introduction of sewage, and the rhamnolipid is added thereto and is changed to sulfur source after operation for a while until startup is complete. The invention solves the problem that the denitrification biofilter tank in the sewage treatment is particularly slow in the mixotrophic state, and has a good application prospect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Inventors: Hui Huang, Chong Peng, XuXiang Zhang, HongQiang Ren
  • Patent number: 11014835
    Abstract: A method of measuring concentration of dissolved organic nitrogen in sewage. The method includes: filtering a sewage sample using a filter membrane; measuring the concentrations of total dissolved nitrogen (TDN), ammonia nitrogen (NH4+), and nitric nitrogen (NO3?) in the sewage sample, respectively designated as CTDN(I), CNH4+(I) and CNO3?(I); calculating the ratios of (CNH4+(I)+CNO3?(I))/CTDN(I) and CNO3?(I)/CNH4+(I), and according to the ratios, calculating the concentration of dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) in the sewage sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: NANJING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hongqiang Ren, Haidong Hu, Jinju Geng, Lili Ding, Hui Huang
  • Patent number: 10967308
    Abstract: A modular backwash assembly and method for using the same is disclosed, the modular backwash assembly comprises a filter brick body, an ultrasonic generator and an ultrasonic connecting component, the filter brick body is provided at an upper portion with a square trench and a cover, the square trench is provided with a plurality of stiffeners and fillers, and a conductive channel is provided on the periphery of the square trench and is provided with an ultrasonic conductive medium therein. The invention has the advantages of firm structure and durable, the gas distribution uniformity may be increased up to 96% and the turbidity average is below the specification 10 NTU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Inventors: Hui Huang, Hongqiang Ren, Xuxiang Zhang, Jinju Geng, Qing Wang
  • Publication number: 20210094854
    Abstract: A method for modifying a wastewater treatment device, the method including: 1) fixing a filling support in a wastewater pool, where the filling support includes a support frame; the support frame includes a hollow shaft, a fixed ring, and at least one vane; 2) adjusting the height of the filling support, until the fixed ring is submerged below the liquid level of the wastewater pool, where the water intake velocity of the wastewater pool is no less than 0.25 m/s, whereby a water current is produced and drives the support frame to rotate; 3) adding a functional liquid into the hollow shaft; and 4) adding an enzyme mixture to the hollow shaft when the rotation speed of the support frame is less than a first preset value, until the rotation speed of the support frame reaches a second preset value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Jinfeng WANG, Hongqiang REN, Bing WU
  • Publication number: 20210081587
    Abstract: A method for building a predictive model of mDON in wastewater, including a) acquiring a kinetics associated with production and consumption of a mDON of an activated sludge system, and importing a kinetic expression of the mDON into a conventional activated sludge model No. 1 (ASM1) to build a kinetic equation for the mDON; b) inputting component variables, parameter variables, model matrices, process rate equation and operating parameters of a predictive model into a simulation software AquaSim to build an ASM-mDON model; c) inputting initial values of the component variables and the parameter variables into the simulation software AquaSim for model initialization; d) acquiring initial mDON kinetic and sensitivity analysis results, selecting corresponding parameters, calibrating kinetic and stoichiometric parameters of the ASM-mDON model using a parameter estimation function of the simulation software AquaSim; and e) replacing the initial values of the ASM-mDON model with optimal values obtained in d).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Haidong HU, Kewei LIAO, Hongqiang REN
  • Publication number: 20200400536
    Abstract: A method for separating microplastics from an animal feces, the method including: 1) freeze-drying an animal fecal sample; 2) transferring the animal fecal sample dried in 1) into a beaker, adding a Fenton's reagent; stirring a mixture of the animal fecal sample and the Fenton's reagent until no bubbles were produced; constantly adding the Fenton's reagent to the mixture; filtering the mixture through a plurality of cellulose nitrate-cellulose acetate (CN-CA) membranes, and transferring the plurality of CN-CA membranes into a plurality of 500 mL beakers; adding 100 mL of 65% HNO3 to each beaker, placing the each beaker in a water bath firstly at 50° C. for 30 min and then at 70° C. for 15 min; cooling the each beaker in an ice bath, and filtering a solution in the each beaker through a first polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) membrane; and 3) transferring the first PTFE membrane into a 500 mL beaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Yan ZHANG, Zehua YAN, Hongqiang REN
  • Publication number: 20200308027
    Abstract: A method of measuring concentration of dissolved organic nitrogen in sewage. The method includes: filtering a sewage sample using a filter membrane; measuring the concentrations of total dissolved nitrogen (TDN), ammonia nitrogen (NH4+), and nitric nitrogen (NO3?) in the sewage sample, respectively designated as CTDN(I), CNH4+(I) and CNO3?(I); calculating the ratios of (CNH4+(I)+CNO3?(I))/CTDN(I) and CNO3?(I)/CNH4+(I), and according to the ratios, calculating the concentration of dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) in the sewage sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Hongqiang REN, Haidong HU, Jinju GENG, Lili DING, Hui HUANG
  • Publication number: 20200231479
    Abstract: A method for achieving rapid startup of a denitrification biofilter tank, which belongs to the technical field of biofilm sewage treatment. The specific steps are: 1. selecting heterotrophic denitrification or mixotrophic denitrification to treat influent sewage; 2. when the heterotrophic denitrification is used, pretreating the filter material with sodium carboxymethyl cellulose solution and then adding rhamnolipid after the introduction of sewage until the biofilter tank system starts successfully; 3. when the mixotrophic denitrification method is used, the filter tank is inoculated after the introduction of sewage, and the rhamnolipid is added thereto and is changed to sulfur source after operation for a while until startup is complete. The invention solves the problem that the denitrification biofilter tank in the sewage treatment is particularly slow in the mixotrophic state, and has a good application prospect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Hui HUANG, Chong PENG, XuXiang ZHANG, HongQiang REN
  • Patent number: 10712315
    Abstract: A device for supervising biofilm culturing, the device including: a fixed seat including an upper end; a supervision chamber; two ultrasonic sensing probes; a first mounting chamber; a second mounting chamber disposed between the fixed seat and the supervision chamber; an ultrasonic generator; an oscilloscope; and a controller. The first and second mounting chambers are disposed at two opposite ends of the supervision chamber, respectively. The two ultrasonic sensing probes are disposed in the first and second mounting chambers, respectively. The second mounting chamber is connected to the upper end of the fixed seat. The two ultrasonic sensing probes each are respectively connected to the ultrasonic generator, the oscilloscope, and the controller successively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: NANJING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hongqiang Ren, Jinfeng Wang, Lili Ding, Jianxin Li, Huimin Fu, Hui Huang
  • Patent number: 10618043
    Abstract: A method for preparing a catalyst, including: 1) uniformly mixing attapulgite, lithium-manganese spinel (Li—Mn spinel), manganese dioxide powders to form mixed raw material; adding water to the mixed raw material; stirring and mixing the mixed raw material and the water for between 5 and 15 min to yield a reaction mixture; 2) feeding the reaction mixture in 1) to a pelletizer to prepare spherical particles or hollow cylindrical particles; drying the spherical particles or the hollow cylindrical particles to yield a precursor; 3) heating the precursor in a muffle furnace, and calcining the precursor to yield a crude catalyst; 4) mixing the crude catalyst with an acid solution; alternating between ultrasound and microwave to wash the crude catalyst; and 5) washing the crude catalyst in 4) with water; and drying the catalyst for 12 hrs in air at 105° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: NANJING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ke Xu, Shuhan Wen, Hongqiang Ren, Jinju Geng
  • Patent number: 10556814
    Abstract: A denitrification biofilter device, including: a regulating pool, a reactor body, a water tank, a first doser, a second doser, a backwash pump, a water inlet pump, and a blower. The regulating pool includes a raw water inlet and a water outlet. The reactor body includes a uniform water distributor, a filler layer, a buffer layer, a filter layer, a supporting layer, a filler supporting plate, a backwash water outlet, a treated water outlet, and a backwash water inlet. The treated water outlet and the backwash water inlet are disposed at the bottom of the reactor body and are connected to the water tank via pipes. The filler layer is filled with zeolites having a grain size of between 4 and 8 mm, a density of between 1.9 and 2.6 g/cm3, a porosity greater or equal to 48%, and a specific surface area of between 570 and 670 m2/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: NANJING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hongqiang Ren, Haidong Hu, Jinju Geng, Ke Xu
  • Patent number: 10557177
    Abstract: A method for characterizing toxicity of toxic pollutants and a method for characterizing comprehensive toxicity of water bodies. The methods include constructing a reporter gene cell line expressing CHOP gene associated with endoplasmic reticulum stress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: NANJING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Bing Wu, Yue Yu, Huimei Chen, Su Liu, Xuxiang Zhang, Hongqiang Ren
  • Publication number: 20190389756
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and an operating method for deep denitrification and toxicity reduction of wastewater. The apparatus comprises a regulation tank, an aeration biofilter, an ozone reaction tank, an ozone generation and diffusion device, and a denitrification biofilter. By the coupling reaction treatment of microorganisms, ozone, electrolysis and denitrification, an effect of refractory organic contaminants and nitrate nitrogen removal, deep denitrification and toxicity reduction can be achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: HUI HUANG, YILIN GAO, HONGQIANG REN, XUXIANG ZHANG, CHONG PENG
  • Publication number: 20190271676
    Abstract: A biological toxicity test method for evaluating an ecological safety of an advanced oxidation process comprising the following steps: (1) collecting (preparing) a waste water to be determined; (2) collecting the waste water and a tap water after the advanced oxidation process treatment; (3) subjecting Koi (Cyprinus carpio haematopterus) to the water after treatment for exposure to poison; (4) Determining an anti-oxidation enzyme activity of a liver of the Koi after exposure; (5) Data analyzing. By comparing the changes of liver enzyme activities in different water, the present method evaluates the toxicity changes of micro-pollutant containing water before and after treatment, which fills in the gap of the ecological risk assessment for advanced oxidation technology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2018
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: JINJU GENG, YINGYING FU, XINGSHENG GAO, HONGQIANG REN