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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 1996
Filed:
Aug. 29, 1994
David E McCombs, St. Louis, MO (US);
Colin D Dougald, St. Louis, MO (US);
Martin L Rapp, St. Louis, MO (US);
Monsanto Enviro-Chem Systems, Inc., St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
A process and an apparatus for treating waste water in oxidations ponds, oxidation ditches, or other bodies of water in a waste water treatment facility to abate the malodors caused by the presence of volatile contaminants. In the process, a water stream is withdrawn from the body of waste water and contacted with an air stream in an air-water contact apparatus. The water stream is thereby aerated and stripped of potentially odor causing volatile contaminants and an off-gas stream is produced containing the stripped volatile contaminants. At least a portion of the aerated and stripped water stream is returned to the body of waste water to inhibit anaerobic decomposition of organic impurities. The off-gas stream is passed through a fixed bed type biofilter comprising a porous filter bed provided with appropriate microorganisms so that the volatile contaminants in the off-gas stream come into contact with the microorganisms and are biologically metabolized into environmentally innocuous substances rather than being emitted into the ambient air.
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