Abstract: Apparatus and methods for removal of pollutants from a stream of water, by binding the pollutant particles to magnetic seeding particles using a flocculating polymer, and then removing the composite magnetic particles from the water stream in a simple and efficient apparatus. The invention is applicable to many common water treatment applications but is especially important for high flow applications requiring efficiency and simplicity. Magnetic fields concentrate the composite magnetic particles in a stratified layer that is then continually separated from the moving stream of water. In another preferred embodiment, vortex separation is combined with magnetic separation to enhance magnetic seed material cleaning and to reduce the solids load on the final magnetic collector.

Abstract: The present invention is a device and methods for assisting a person in body strengthening, stretching, or exercising. The present invention comprises one or more base units of particular ratio of dimensions, each having a horizontal bar for use in performing strength and exercise assistance to the user. Owing to their ratio of dimensions, the base units may be placed and oriented to each other in multiple configurations. The user may adjust the present invention to their size and use requirements by controlling such placement and orientation to match their own body width. The present invention is well suited for persons of partial disability, allowing to the user's own body weight and force resistance to govern use.

Abstract: A two-step chemical precipitation process involving hydroxide precipitation and sulfide precipitation combined with “field separation ” technology such as magnetic separation, dissolved air flotation, vortex separation, or expanded plastics flotation, effectively removes chelated and non-chelated heavy metal precipitates and other fine particles from water. In the first-step, the non-chelated heavy metals are precipitated as hydroxides and removed from the water by a conventional liquid/solids separator such as an inclined plate clarifier to remove a large percentage of the dissolved heavy metals. The cleaned water is then treated in a second precipitation step to remove the residual heavy metals to meet discharge limits. In the second precipitation step, any metal precipitant more effective than hydroxide for metal precipitation can be used.

Abstract: Wastewater streams containing tacky or sticky components and heavy metals, such as photoresist-containing streams from printed-circuit board manufacture and water streams from paint spraying processes, can be detackified and the metals simultaneously removed by addition of a metal salt, such as an iron salt, and a sulfide material. The combination of metal salts and sulfide reacting products produces a detackified metal sulfide sludge that improves the filterability of the wastewater while also removing dissolved metal ions from the wastewater.