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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2016
The United States of America As Represented BY the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Kathryn A. Guy, Champaign, IL (US);
Martin Page, Urbana, IL (US);
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
The present invention is an ammonia sequestering system including a system controller connected to a plurality of flow control valves, a feed stream extending through a system inlet, and a system outlet. The feed stream is a liquid contaminated with ammonia. At least one exchange column is located between the system inlet and the system outlet. The ion column includes an ion exchange material, a column inlet connected to one of the flow control valves, and a column outlet connected to another of the flow control valves. The system also includes a regenerant stream of an aqueous solution of sodium cations, as well as an ammonia brine stream made up of the regenerant stream and ammonia.