Abstract: A method of treating water containing silicon-containing impurities in a concentration of up to 10,000 parts per million by weight of the water, by contacting the water over a period of time with a particulate solid which entrains silicon-containing impurities in the water and subsequently separating the water from the particulate solid, wherein the particulate solid is a high alumina cement which is anhydrous when first contacted by the water.

Abstract: A method for removing arsenic species from an aqueous medium with modified zeolite minerals comprising providing an aqueous medium containing arsenic species in the form of both arsenate and arsenite, contacting the aqueous medium with an iron (II) laden zeolite mineral so that arsenic in the form of at least one of arsenate and arsenite contained in the aqueous medium can be adsorbed onto the iron (II) laden zeolite mineral forming an arsenic adsorbed iron (II) laden zeolite mineral, and separating the arsenic adsorbed iron (II) laden zeolite mineral from the aqueous medium.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method suitable for treating used oil to remove contaminants including ash and color contaminants therefrom to provide a purified oil product. The method comprises the steps of providing a porous inorganic membrane module having a high pressure side and a low pressure side, and a body of oil to be treated. The oil is introduced to the high pressure side of the membrane module to provide an oil permeate on the low pressure side and an ash rich concentrate on the high pressure side thereby separating ash in the oil from the oil permeate. Thereafter the oil permeate is contacted with an adsorbent to remove one of color and odor from the oil permeate to provide a purified oil product. The spent adsorbent can be regenerated and reused.

Abstract: For the removal of trace quantities of iodine-containing contaminants from corrosive liquid feed streams, an adsorbent with distinct advantages over prior-art materials is provided. The treatment method involves the use of a metal phthalocyanine compound where the metal selected from the group consisting of silver, mercury, copper, lead, thallium, palladium, or mixtures thereof. Such metals are known to be reactive with the iodine-containing contaminants in the feed stream. Furthermore, the metal phthalocyanine is deposited on a carrier material selected from the group consisting of an activated carbon, a phenolic polymer, and an inorganic refractory metal oxide. Such adsorbent materials have proven substantially insoluble even in corrosive liquid feed streams associated with the invention. Reactivation and regeneration techniques, which are generally incompatible with prior-art adsorbent materials, are also disclosed.

Abstract: A process for removing ions of dissolved heavy metals and complex heavy metals comprises provides a treatment zone in which is contained an extraction material having an activated surface that has an affinity for heavy metal ions and complex heavy metal ions. The activated surface is the reaction product of a polyamine with a covalently anchored trifunctional hydrocarbyl silyl that yields non-crosslinked amino groups to which functional chelator groups can be covalently attached. The activated surface of the extraction material is formed by first hydrating the extraction material surface and then silanizing the hydrated surface with a short chain trifunctional silane having a hydrocarbon substituent containing 1-6 carbon atoms and a terminal leaving group, and then reacting a polyamine with the hydrocarbylsilyl from the silanization of the hydrated surface so as to form an aminohydrocarbyl polymer covalently bound to the extraction material surface.

Abstract: Treatment of sewage water contaminated by phosphorus is accomplished by passing the water through iron oxide. The iron oxide is placed in close proximity to soft resilient open-cell foam, which serves to slow down, and even out, the rate of travel of the water while under treatment, thus increasing the residence time.

Abstract: A method for removing metal ions from solution comprises the steps of providing titanate particles by spray-drying a solution or slurry comprising sorbent titanates having a particle size up to 20 micrometers, optionally in the presence of polymer free of cellulose functionality as binder, said sorbent being active towards heavy metals from Periodic Table (CAS version) Groups IA, IIA, IB, IIB, IIIB, and VIII, to provide monodisperse, substantially spherical particles in a yield of at least 70 percent of theoretical yield and having a particle size distribution in the range of 1 to 500 micrometers. The particles can be used free flowing in columns or beds, or entrapped in a nonwoven, fibrous web or matrix or a cast porous membrane, to selectively remove metal ions from aqueous or organic liquid.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for removing and recovering mercury, an impurity, from a hydrocarbon feedstream. The process comprises separating the hydrocarbon feedstream into a gaseous portion and a liquid hydrocarbon portion and separately treating the gaseous and liquid portions by adsorption in separate purifier beds. The gas and liquid purifier beds are regenerated sequentially with a heated regenerant stream that following desorption and recovery of mercury is further purified in a secondary regenerable adsorption bed. The sequential regeneration of the two separate purifier beds and the secondary adsorbent bed significantly reduces the capital and operating cost for the process and serves to concentrate the mercury in the secondary adsorbent bed where it can be removed at a lower cost.

Abstract: A method for the treatment of a liquid in a reactor comprising a chamber having an upper portion and a lower portion, a liquid inlet located in the upper portion of the chamber, a liquid outlet located in the lower portion of the chamber and an absorbent bed within the chamber between the upper and lower portions thereof, said method comprising using as said absorbent bed a porous packing that is able to absorb by capillarity the liquid to be treated, said porous packing having a given capillarity height h.sub.s which is the height that the liquid to be treated reaches by capillarity action when it is fed in a column filled up with a continuous layer of said porous packing; mounting at least one horizontally extending separation member within the chamber so as to divide the absorbent bed into at least two superimposed layers of a given height that is equal to or lower than h.sub.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for performing a continuous reaction with at least one liquid reaction phase incorporating at least one starting compound in the presence of at least one solid-phase catalyst, wherein the phases to be contacted are circulated through at least one pulsed reaction column (1). The liquid reaction phase is continuously fed into the middle or lower portion of the pulsed column (1), the liquid phase is circulated upwards through the pulsed column (1), and a counterflow made up of lumps (9) of a solid selective extraction compound is continuously circulated. Furthermore, each solid catalyst is continuously circulated through the pulsed column (1) in contact with the liquid phase.

Abstract: A new use of hydrophobic zeolites, viz. for removing preservatives from (poly)peptide solutions, e.g. solutions of pharmaceutical preparations. The use is of particular interest in connection with protein solutions, especially insulin solutions. The invention further relates to an injection syringe for such solutions, in which syringe a zeolite of the type at issue is placed for contact with the solution to remove preservatives therefrom.

Abstract: A solid phase ligand removes metal cations from solution. The ligand is a branched polyalkyleneimine having a molecular weight of at least about 400, covalently bound to an inorganic support.

Abstract: A method of filtering water utilizing separate beds of non-soluble ceramic-type calcium sulfite beads, made from a ceramic binder and calcium sulfite, and a copper-zinc media, with the ceramic-type calcium sulfite beads and the copper-zinc media being in substantially equal volumetric portions.

Abstract: Adsorbent media are prepared by contacting support material with iron containing solutions, followed by drying to coat the support material with iron. Support material such as sand and olivine are described. The adsorbent material can be used to remove metal contaminants and natural organic matter from water.

Abstract: A method for removing dissolved species from a fluid while allowing suspended solid particles to remain within in the fluid, where the fluid includes dissolved species and suspended solid particles. The method includes providing a solid phase extraction article comprising a first end, a second end opposite the first end, an axis extending from the first end to the second end, and a porous, particle loaded, fibrous sheet material formed into a spiral configuration about the axis. The sheet material is wound around itself to provide multiple layers of sheet material, each layer of sheet material is spaced from each adjacent layer of sheet material, and the sheet material comprises a first working surface, a second, opposite working surface, and an inner portion comprising active particles between the first and second working surfaces.

Abstract: A porous absorbent made of a filter, a filter material or a sponge material is inserted into a polluted part of soil or groundwater containing environmental pollutants such as chlorinated solvents or heavy metal ions. The porous absorbent is inserted into the polluted environment such that its one end comes into contact with the pollutants and the other end is exposed to air. The porous absorbent allows the pollutants absorbed thereby to rise up to its air-exposed end through the vaporizing activity of the pollutant themselves and of the water containing them. The pollutants are allowed to evaporate from the air-exposed end to be dissipated into the air, or to concentrate at the air-exposed end for later removal. Further, microorganisms fixed to the porous absorbent are used to decompose pollutants for removal, or to absorb pollutants for removal. Those pollutant eliminating methods allow efficient elimination of even highly concentrated pollutants at a low cost without requiring complicated processes.

Abstract: The metal oxide media includes oxides and hydroxides of iron, and other metals. The material is derived from basic-oxygen steel-making process, and includes a high calcium content. The oxide surfaces facilitate the adsorption of phosphorus, and the increased pH facilitates the precipitation of calcium and other phosphates. The oxides are a catalyst for converting organic phosphorus to inorganic form. Limestone may be added to the oxides, to ensure a long-term source of calcium, and to maintain high pH for long periods.

Abstract: Process for purifying an inert fluid in the liquid state, containing at least one of the impurities hydrogen (H.sub.2) and carbon monoxide (CO), with respect to at least one of the impurities, characterized in that:a) the fluid in the liquid state which is to be purified is passed through at least one bed of particles of at least one adsorbent in order to adsorb at least one of the impurities H.sub.2 and CO;b) a fluid in the liquid state which is substantially purified with respect to at least one of the impurities H.sub.2 and CO is recovered.

Abstract: A process for the production of radiostrontium consists in that a target of metallic rubidium is bombarded by a flow of accelerating charged particles. The target of irradiated rubidium is melted, whereas the extraction of radiostrontium is carried out by sorption on the surface of a sorbing material immersed into the irradiated molten metallic rubidium. As the sorbing material, use is made of materials selected from the group consisting of heat-resistant metals or metallic oxides or silicon which are inert with respect to rubidium. The resultant radiostrontium is extracted from the irradiated rubidium. The temperature of the sorbing material is selected to be close to the optimum one for the sorption of radiostrontium which is within the range of from the melting point of metallic rubidium to 220.degree. C. And the temperature of molten rubidium is selected to be close to the optimum one for the desorption of radiostrontium within the range of from 220.degree. C. to 270.degree. C.

Abstract: An agent for recovering heavy metal cations from an aqueous effluent, including a silicate or aluminosilicate type compound, e.g. an alkali metal silicate or aluminosilicate, and a carbonate type compound, e.g. an alkali metal carbonate, and preferably a carrier such as a lay. The agent may also form a cation stabilizer. Said agent is useful for removing or stabilizing heavy metal cations in the water used for cleaning flue gases from waste incineration, particularly household refuse and industrial waste incineration.

Abstract: Magnetic particles which comprise a core of a magnetic material surrounded by a mixture of a fibrous material and a solid binding agent. The particles may be embedded in a polymer resin which incorporates sites, which are selective for particular ions, to form composite magnetic resin particles. The composite magnetic resin particles may be used for the removal of pollutant ions from an aqueous solution in which they are contained.

Abstract: A chemically charged-modified filter for removing charged, micron to sub-micron sized particles from an aqueous liquid, the filter being composed of a filter sheet having a plurality of individual exposed surfaces, at least a portion of which having a surface energy of less than about 45 dynes per centimeter; amphiphilic macromolecules adsorbed onto at least some individual exposed surfaces having a surface energy of less than about 45 dynes per centimeter; and chemical charge modifiers incorporated onto at least a portion of the amphiphilic macromolecules; so that when said charge-modified substrate is in contact with the aqueous liquid containing the charged, micron to sub-micron sized particles, said particles are adsorbed onto the chemically charge-modified filter.

Abstract: Conductive and/or chemically absorptive ceramic fibers are woven with optional non-conductive/non-absorptive ceramic fibers to create a fiber reinforcement which is impregnated with a ceramic-material-producing (pre-ceramic polymer) binder and heated to create the ceramic honeycomb with controlled ohmic loss and/or chemical absorption properties. The desired properties of the honeycomb material can be provided by the conductive and/absorptive ceramic fibers alone or in combination with non-fibrous or fibrous conductive and/or absorptive ceramic material provided by the binder, typically a preceramic polymer which may or may not contain dispersed ceramic materials; after the honeycomb is formed, the non-fibrous or fibrous conductive and/or absorptive ceramic material is interspersed throughout the honeycomb. By heating the impregnated fiber reinforcement in the absence of oxygen, carbon from any carbon-containing materials within the binder remain as a part of the honeycomb material.

Abstract: A process for producing a solution of a basic or non-basic sulfonium compound (A) of formulae II-V: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.5, R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 each independently represent a C.sub.1 -C.sub.18 alkyl, aryl or heteroaryl group or an aryl group mono-, di- or tri-substituted with an alkyl, an alkylaryl, an aryl, a halogen, an alkoxy, a phenoxy, a thiophenol, a phenylsulfonyl or a phenylsulphenyl;Y represents (CH.sub.2).sub.n (wherein n is 0 or 1), O or S;R.sup.8 and R.sup.9 represent a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, alkoxy or a halogen;R.sup.10 and R.sup.11 represent a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, alkoxy or a halogen;n is 5 or 6; andX.sub.2.sup.- represents a basic anion having a pK.sub.B value of -3 to +5; comprising the steps of:(a) dissolving a sulfonium salt (B) in a metal-ion free polar or non-polar solvent to form a solution, said sulfonium salt (B) being selected from said formulae II-V, wherein R.sup.5 to R.sup.11, Y and n of said sulfonium salt (B) have the sane meaning as above and X.sub.2.sup.

Abstract: A method for treating water in a Boiling Water Reactor system including filtration through a four component system including ion exchange resins and an inert fiber is provided, as well as a method for preparing and depositing the filter compounds. The method overcomes problems of plugging and trimethylamine release, and allows for better absorption of iron oxides present in BWR condensate, while reducing the amount of radioactive waste material to be disposed of.

Abstract: Clay particles with organo silane-modified surfaces are provided along with a process for their preparation. The silane-modified clay is relatively easily and reliably produced by reacting clay with a R-substituted halosilane (R being a hydrophobic group) in a polar solvent containing a tertiary amine. The produced silanized clay is stable over a wide range of storage and use conditions. Contacting processes for using the silane-modified clay to remove organic contaminants from aqueous media are also provided. After use, the silane-modified clay particles can be regenerated, treated and reused for such contaminant removal.

Abstract: A composite material useful for removing heavy metal ions from solutions such as aqueous waste streams comprises a ceramic inorganic support such as silica gel which is covalently bonded, through a silane coupling agent, to a hydroxyquinoline ligand or such a support which has been reacted with a silylating agent and then on which is deposited a hydroxyquinoline ligand.

Abstract: Composite materials useful for removing metal ions from solutions such as aqueous waste streams comprise an inorganic ceramic support such as silica gel that has active hydroxyl groups. The support is reacted with a silane linking compound or with a titanizing agent. A chelating compound, which can be a thiol or an amine, is attached to the silane or to titanium atoms of the titanized surface of the support.

Abstract: An oil absorbing article is made of an outer covering of wool felt that forms an enclosure containing pine bark. The covering may be in the form of a mat, a pillow, or a boom. The outer covering allows the oil to pass through into the bark, which becomes saturated with the oil. This saturation prevents flow of water to the bark, whereby the article remains floating after absorption of oil.

Abstract: The present invention is a method for removing oxidized contaminant(s) from water. More specifically, the invention has the steps of contacting water containing the oxidized contaminant(s) with a layered aluminosilicate having Fe(II). The aluminosilicate may contain naturally occurring Fe(II), or the Fe(II) may be produced by reducing Fe(III) that is initially present. Reduction may be either by exposure to a chemical or biological reductant. Contacting the water containing oxidized contaminant(s) may be by (1) injection of Fe(II)-containing layered aluminosilicate, via a well, into a saturated zone where it is likely to intercept the contaminated water; (2) injection of contaminated water into a vessel containing the Fe(II)-bearing layered aluminosilicate; and (3) first reducing Fe(III) in the layered aluminosilicate to Fe(II) by injection of a biological or chemical reductant, into an aquifer or vessel having sufficient Fe(III)-bearing aluminosilicate to produce the necessary Fe(II).

Abstract: A composition and method of making a strength enhanced composition are described. The composition comprises zinc oxide, silica and colloidal oxide solution. The colloidal oxide solution is utilized as a binding agent to provide a strength enhanced absorbent composition that can be utilized in an absorption process for the purpose of removing sulfur contaminants from fluid streams.

Abstract: An apparatus and method using fine tourmaline crystals is provided which is capable of creating an interfacial purifying activity in water. The inventor is the first to discover that tourmaline crystals, when ground preferably to about 3 microns in size, possess permanent polarity unless heated to their Curie point of between 950.degree.-1000.degree. C. for 2-3 hours. The apparatus and method utilize a plurality of free bodies contained in a housing for passing water to be treated therethrough. The free bodies comprises a mixture of these fine tourmaline crystals which together with an electrically insulating material which electrically insulates the fine tourmaline crystals from one another. The free bodies are preferably spherical pellets about 3-5 millimeters in diameter. The water interfacial purifying activity does not only treat water by reducing or removing cholorine and ion components, but it also helps remove contaminants incrusted on the inner surfaces of water conduits and supply lines.

Abstract: A process for capture, degradation, and destruction of a sulfur bearing compound that satisfies the needs for a treatment process that may be used in cartridge, pipeline, and batch, that can handle a large variety of sulfur bearing environmental pollutants, is faster than other methods, and that does not leave dangerous degradation product fractions and residuals in wastewater from the treatment process itself. The present invention is further directed towards a treatment process that is capable of using a safe, dry storable cartridge with small amounts of dry storable mixed resins in a small cartridge, that can fit into a "point of use" pipeline from a contaminated well or point of contaminated "run-off". Dangerous degradation product fractions and residuals in wastewater, are minimized, in order to minimize residual environmental impacts from the treatment process itself. Sulfur bearing compounds are mixed with metals insoluble with the sulfur bearing compounds, reducing agents, and bases.

Abstract: It is proposed to use a synthetic granulate or powder with a particle size of 0.1 to 10 mm as packing material for the removal of liquid, gaseous and/or dissolved constituents from a process stream, which packing material is made up of a porous, preferably dimensionally stable polymer having an overall porosity of 50 to 95% by volume, which when used as an extracting medium has pores of a diameter of 0.01 to 50 .mu.m, with an extracting liquid immobilised therein, or when used as a coalescence medium has a cellular body/window structure with the diameter of more than 50% by volume of the bodies being in the range of 100 to 700 .mu.

Abstract: A method is provided for reducing the concentration of radioactive materials or other trace contaminants in fluids withdrawn from subterranean reservoirs and also fluids in reservoirs. The method involves deposition of sorbent solids including, but not limited to, fine ion exchange resins, within the reservoir matrix surrounding a production well to act as an in-situ filter for dissolved radionuclides or other contaminants present in reservoir pore waters. For this purpose, the sorbent solid is either a) precipitated within the reservoir matrix by the reaction of ions or molecules of two or more carrier solutions or b) directly introduced into the reservoir as a solid component of a solid-liquid slurry using high-pressure injection techniques.

Abstract: A method of decontaminating a site of metals, particularly radioactive metals, is provided. The contaminated material is contacted with pulverized bone, which sorbs the metals from the contaminated material. The bone may be derived from any animals having bone, such as cattle. Prior to use, the organic compounds of the bone are removed, so that inorganic bone composed primarily of hydroxylapatite is obtained. The morphology of the bone, including its crystalline structure and porosity, is maintained. As an alternative to bone derived from animals, synthetic inorganic bone composed of hydroxylapatite and having a physical structure equivalent to animal-derived bone may be used.

Abstract: A sheet article for solid phase extraction or solid phase reaction comprises at least one sorptive polymer pulp, and optionally at least one of sorptive and reactive particulate. The article can be used in a method of separating an analyte from a fluid comprising the step of passing a fluid comprising an analyte through a sheet article comprising poly(p- or m-phenylenephthalamide) pulp, the pulp optionally having incorporated therein solid phase particulates, the sheet article being capable of isolating the analyte from the fluid.

Abstract: Novel composite materials useful for removing heavy metal ions from solutions, such as aqueous waste streams, comprise an inorganic ceramic support, such as silica gel, having terminal hydroxy groups, to the oxygen of which a ligand is covalently bonded through a silane coupling agent, the ligand being a phosphorous or thiophosphorous based acid moiety.

Abstract: The invention relates to activated support materials which comprise epoxy-substituted poly(meth)acrylamides, characterized in that:a) the base support contains aliphatic hydroxyl groups,b) the covalently bonded polymers are bonded to the support via a terminal monomer unit,c) the polymers contain monomer units of the formula I,d) the monomer units are linearly linked, ##STR1## in which R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 independently of one another are H or CH.sub.3,R.sup.4 is H or alkyl having 1-5 carbon atomsandn is an integer between 1 and 5 and to the use thereof.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for removing dissolved heavy metals including lead and radioactive contaminants from contaminated aqueous systems including aqueous soil systems. Such systems have resulted from Department of Defense activities and chemical manufacture, as well as from a large variety of past activities. An organically modified smectite clay, or organoclay, is used to treat these systems. Organoclays are the reaction product of smectite clays and quaternary ammonium compounds. The organoclay is brought in contact with system to be treated where it sorbs the heavy metal in the aqueous system onto the organoclay which sorbed complex is then removed by a variety of methods including flotation and air sparging.

Abstract: A device, and process, for continuously separating dissolved solutes and suspended particles from a multicomponent fluid phase in a magnetically stabilized fluidized bed (MSFB). The process is of the type wherein a solid resin and a liquid buffer move countercurrent to each other in the bed. In steady state operation, a time invariant pH gradient will form in the bed and remain spatially fixed. Other condition variables, such as temperature, can be used to form a time invariant gradient provided that equilibrium partition between the solid and liquid phases is a function of the condition variable.

Abstract: A surface-modified fibrous material which includes hydrocarbon polymer fibers having cationic or anionic groups on the surfaces thereof and coated with a polyelectrolyte having a net charge opposite to that of the cationic or anionic groups on the surfaces of the fibers. The hydrocarbon polymer may be, by way of illustration, a polyolefin, such as polyethylene or polypropylene. The cationic or anionic groups may be carboxylic acid, sulfonic acid groups, or quaternary ammonium groups. Examples of polyelectrolytes include chitosan, poly(methacryloxyethyltrimethylammonium bromide), poly(acrylic acid), and poly(styrene sulfonate). Also disclosed is a method of making the surface-modified fibrous material. The surface-modified fibrous material may be used as a filtration medium for liquids.

Abstract: A method for removing sulphate ions from an aqueous solution of an alkali metal halide containing sulphate ions, which method comprises contacting said solution with a particulate, composite ion-exchange material comprising a hydrous oxide of a metal selected from the group consisting of titanium, zirconium and cerium, dispersed on a support comprising a brine solution compatible material. Preferably the compatible material is selected from hydrous oxides of titanium, cerium and zirconium. An improved cost-effective practical method of sulphate removal is provided.

Abstract: A functionalized macroporous poly(styrene divinylbenzene) particle comprises at least one ionic functional group covalently bonded thereto, the functionalized particle having sorptive capability towards an analyte, said functional group being present in the range of 0.1 to 2.5 milliequivalents per gram of poly(styrene divinylbenzene). The functionalized particles can be used in a packed column or enmeshed in a nonwoven web for utility in solid phase extraction applications.

Abstract: The process for producing the albumin preparation of the present invention comprises treating an aqueous albumin solution with an anion exchanger and a cation exchanger and subjecting the solution to heat treatment wherein a polyacrylamide type carrier having a cation exchange group is used as a cation exchanger. By using a polyacrylamide type carrier as a cation exchanger, the polymerization caused by the contaminating proteins can be suppressed, and a highly purified albumin preparation can be obtained.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method for purifying a used aqueous N-methylmorpholine N-oxide solution reclaimed from a spinning aqueous solution, which results from a coagulation solution into which a cellulose dope containing N-methylmorpholine N-oxide is extruded through a spinning die and from a washing solution for the coagulated cellulosic articles in manufacture processes for cellulose fibers or films, comprising adding an oxidant to the used aqueous N-methylmorpholine N-oxide solution to remove impurities therefrom through oxidation N-methylmorpholine into N-methylmorpholine N-oxide and break down of the chromophores of the impurities. Utterly distinguished from, conventional methods in the principle, the method is very simple and efficient as well as far superior to the conventional methods using ion exchange resin in the decoloration. In addition, it needs not suffer a loss of amine oxide as usual in the ion exchange resin.

Abstract: A process for removing selenium and/or arsenic from aqueous streams including industrial process waters and drinking water is provided comprising contacting the stream with a composition comprising lanthanum oxide whereby selenium and/or arsenic are adsorbed. Preferred compositions comprise lanthanum oxide and alumina.

Abstract: An HCl adsorbent, and method of making and using the adsorbent, the adsorbent comprising an activated alumina promoted with an alkali metal in an amount such that if calculated as alkali metal oxide, the adsorbent contains at least about 5% by weight alkali metal oxide.

Abstract: Magnetic polymer resins capable of efficient removal of actinides and heavy metals from contaminated water are disclosed together with methods for making, using, and regenerating them. The resins comprise polyamine-epichlorohydrin resin beads with ferrites attached to the surfaces of the beads. Markedly improved water decontamination is demonstrated using these magnetic polymer resins of the invention in the presence of a magnetic field, as compared with water decontamination methods employing ordinary ion exchange resins or ferrites taken separately.

Abstract: A filter material based on a polyarylene thioether having repeating units of the formula--[(Ar.sup.1).sub.n --X)].sub.m --[(Ar.sup.2).sub.i --Y)].sub.j --[(Ar.sup.3).sub.k --Z)].sub.1 --[(Ar.sup.4).sub.o --W)].sub.p --(I)in which Ar.sup.1, Ar.sup.2, Ar.sup.3, Ar.sup.4, W, X, Y and Z, independently of each other, are identical or different, the indices n, m, i, j, k, l, o and p, independently of each other, are zero or integers 1, 2, 3 or 4, their sum being at least 2, Ar.sup.1, Ar.sup.2, Ar.sup.3 and Ar.sup.4 are arylene systems having 6 to 18 carbon atoms, and W, X, Y and Z are divalent linking groups, selected from --SO.sub.2 --, --S--, --SO--, --CO--, --O--, --CO.sub.2 --, or alkylene groups or alkylidene groups having 1 to 6 carbon atoms is suitable for removing ozone from gases or liquids. The removal proceeds quantitatively, no volatile products being formed.