Patents by Inventor Youfa ZHU

Youfa ZHU 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).

  • Patent number: 10046979
    Abstract: A method for recycling rare earth from a wastewater from rare earth mining or from rare earth smelting, includes the steps of: removing oil from the wastewater to obtain a degreased wastewater; purifying the degreased wastewater to obtain a purified wastewater using a pretreatment system; recycling rare earth from the purified wastewater to obtain a rare earth slurry and a low rare earth wastewater using a rare earth recycling tank; treating the low rare earth wastewater to obtain ammonia gas using an ammonium degassing device; and converting the ammonia gas to obtain aqueous ammonia using an aqueous ammonium preparing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES (WUHAN)
    Inventors: Chunjie Yan, Sen Zhou, Luru Jing, Chen Liu, Youfa Zhu, Zhenhua Wang, Xujian Li, Tian Liang
  • Publication number: 20170137300
    Abstract: A method for recycling rare earth from a wastewater from rare earth mining or from rare earth smelting, includes the steps of: removing oil from the wastewater to obtain a degreased wastewater; purifying the degreased wastewater to obtain a purified wastewater using a pretreatment system; recycling rare earth from the purified wastewater to obtain a rare earth slurry and a low rare earth wastewater using a rare earth recycling tank; treating the low rare earth wastewater to obtain ammonia gas using an ammonium degassing device; and converting the ammonia gas to obtain aqueous ammonia using an aqueous ammonium preparing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Chunjie YAN, Sen ZHOU, Luru JING, Chen LIU, Youfa ZHU, Zhenhua WANG, Xujian LI, Tian LIANG