Patents by Inventor Houhu Zhang

Houhu Zhang 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: 20250010266
    Abstract: A preparation method and application of a red mud-enhanced magnetic straw biochar material includes the following steps of: naturally air-drying or artificial drying straws, and crushing the dried straws; drying red mud from Bayer process, and crushing the red mud into powder; then mixing the crushed straws and the powdery red mud by ball milling to prepare straw-red mud mixed powder; mixing water and biomass ash rich in alkali, and extracting the mixture to obtain a biomass ash extracting solution and dealkalized biomass ash solid residues; and uniformly mixing and stirring the straw-red mud mixed powder and the biomass ash extracting solution to obtain a pasty mixture, carrying out co-pyrolysis on the pasty mixture under a protective atmosphere, and washing magnetic straw biochar produced by co-pyrolysis with water until the magnetic straw biochar is neutral to obtain the red mud enhanced magnetic straw biochar material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: NANJING INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, MINISTRY OF ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT
    Inventors: Xiaochen LIN, Houhu ZHANG, Shenghu ZHANG, Yifan XU, Zifei SUN, Hongji GUO, Xuejian LI, Yuanshun XU, Dapeng ZHANG, Lili WANG
  • Publication number: 20250002381
    Abstract: Provided are a preparation method and use of a novel copper-metal organic framework (Cu-MOF)-derived magnetic Fe3O4@Cu/C composite for antibiotic degradation. The preparation method of the composite includes: compounding a novel Cu-MOF material obtained in a high-pressure reactor with Fe2O3, and then conducting calcination under an inert gas atmosphere to obtain the magnetic Fe3O4@Cu/C composite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Rong ZHOU, Yue YU, Hua Wu, Yuanqing Bu, Houhu Zhang, Shenghu Zhang, Chibin Zhang, Na Zhao
  • Publication number: 20240390959
    Abstract: A coupled medium-low temperature flue gas processing apparatus for fly ash washing includes a reactor and scraping rings. In the present disclosure, arranging the scraping rings can scrape the fly ash adhered to the inside of the reactor and bring the scraped fly ash into a mixing liquor to prevent the fly ash from adhering and accumulating, which not only results in the decrease of the fly ash content participating in the reaction, and the difficulty to react with water completely, but also the fly ash adhered to the inside of the reactor will form a thick object after mixing with the water, once the thick object is dried, the adhesive capacity thereof is greatly enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicant: Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, MEE
    Inventors: Houhu ZHANG, Bing MA, Hao ZHOU, Xiaofei YAN, Guodong KANG, Yi WANG
  • Publication number: 20240359044
    Abstract: A processing apparatus for removing dioxin in fly ash from domestic waste incineration by using a ball mill includes a grinder as well as a feeding body and a discharging body that are separately arranged at both ends of the grinder. In the present disclosure, an induction coil is electrified by arranging a heating body to generate an alternating magnetic field such that eddies generate on an inner wall of a grinding cylinder in the induction coil, the grinding cylinder is heated by the energy of these eddies, making a grinding ball thermally desorb and decompose a harmful component, that is, dioxin in the fly ash through a high temperature when grinding the fly ash from the domestic waste incineration since a temperature in the grinding cylinder reaches 300-500° C. during grinding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, MEE
    Inventors: Houhu ZHANG, Bing MA, Hao ZHOU, Xiaofei YAN, Guodong KANG, Yi WANG
  • Patent number: 12129193
    Abstract: A processing apparatus for treating acid mine wastewater using an activated carbon-loaded microorganism includes a purifying container, a reducing body and an oxygen consumption body. By arranging a fuel gas body, a bottom of a cover disc is in threaded connection with a top of a top pipe after red phosphorus in a bottom cylinder is ignited, air in a feeding chamber enters into the bottom cylinder through gas ports, the oxygen in the air is consumed as the red phosphorus continues to burn, such that an interior of a reaction bin is in an oxygen-free environment, for ease of the microorganism performing the biological reduction reaction on the acid mine wastewater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, MEE
    Inventors: Houhu Zhang, Bing Ma, Jinglong Liu, Hao Zhou, Xiaochen Lin, Shenghu Zhang, Guodong Kang
  • Publication number: 20240317620
    Abstract: A processing apparatus for treating acid mine wastewater using an activated carbon-loaded microorganism includes a purifying container, a reducing body and an oxygen consumption body. By arranging a fuel gas body, a bottom of a cover disc is in threaded connection with a top of a top pipe after red phosphorus in a bottom cylinder is ignited, air in a feeding chamber enters into the bottom cylinder through gas ports, the oxygen in the air is consumed as the red phosphorus continues to burn, such that an interior of a reaction bin is in an oxygen-free environment, for ease of the microorganism performing the biological reduction reaction on the acid mine wastewater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, MEE
    Inventors: Houhu ZHANG, Bing MA, Jinglong LIU, Hao ZHOU, Xiaochen LIN, Shenghu ZHANG, Guodong KANG
  • Patent number: 12098982
    Abstract: A biochemical sludge and physicochemical sludge separate sampling device for identifying attributes of sludge, includes a sludge extraction assembly, and a biochemical reaction tank and a physicochemical reaction tank which are respectively connected to the sludge extraction assembly through connection pipelines. The sludge extraction assembly includes an outer shell, a porous plate clamped to an inner bottom of the outer shell, and a sampling dish. A drain pipe is arranged at a lower end of the outer shell. The sampling dish is provided with a biochemical sludge cavity and a physicochemical sludge cavity. Filter cloth is arranged at inner bottoms of the biochemical sludge cavity and the physicochemical sludge cavity. Electric extrusion stems are arranged at an inner top of the outer shell; and the electric extrusion stems are provided with extrusion plug plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, MEE
    Inventors: Xiaofei Yan, Jinglong Liu, Houhu Zhang, Dong Xu, Mengqi Liu, Congcong Sun, Xiang Chen, Zifei Sun, Mengcheng Wu
  • Patent number: 11969733
    Abstract: A production device for preparing a building material using a fine particle silt in iron tailings includes an operation desk and a grinding device. During movement of edge plates, gears are located inside a side groove and keep meshing with toothed grooves, the edge plates will drive various gears to rotate along a same direction and drive grinding balls and connecting shafts to rotate while moving, the grinding balls will perform grinding treatment on the fine particle silt at the inner end of the grinding cabinet while rotating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, MEE
    Inventors: Houhu Zhang, Bing Ma, Hao Zhou, Yuanshun Xu, Guodong Kang, Yi Wang, Xiaowei Xu
  • Patent number: 11959238
    Abstract: A system for a sandy soil landfill solid waste polluted river channel, includes a ground water interception and diversion system and a river channel ecological remediation system. The ground water interception and diversion system includes a water intake well arranged upstream of ground water in a landfill area, a buffer pool communicated with the water intake well, and a wastewater treatment system communicated with the buffer pool. The water intake well, the buffer pool, and the wastewater treatment system are communicated through a wastewater pipe. An electric wastewater valve and a variable frequency water pump are arranged on the wastewater pipe in sequence. The river channel ecological remediation system includes an impermeable layer arranged at a bottom of a river channel and ecological bank protections arranged on both sides of a river channel slope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, MEE
    Inventors: Houhu Zhang, Xiaofei Yan, Jinglong Liu, Lichen Liang, Congcong Sun, Xiang Chen, Cheng Zhang