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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.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2000

Filed:

Mar. 26, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:

Wiebe Ruurd Abma, De Wilgen, NL;

Cees Jan Buisman, Harich, NL;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C02F / ; C02F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
210620 ; 210631 ; 210757 ; 210908 ;
Abstract

The invention provides a process for removing polyamine chelating agents from aqueous solutions comprising oxidising the chelating agents with oxygen in the presence of an equivalent amount of a transition metal such as iron, followed by biologically reducing the chelates in the presence of an electron donor, and optionally by membrane filtration. The biological reduction is carried out with denitrifying and/or sulphate-reducing bacteria.


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