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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2007
Zhen Wang, Hoffman Estates, IL (US);
Robert Abraham, Bolingbrook, IL (US);
Zhen Wang, Hoffman Estates, IL (US);
Robert Abraham, Bolingbrook, IL (US);
Amcol International Corporation, Hoffman Estates, IL (US);
Abstract
The use of a coupling agent containing a mercapto, disulfide, tretrasulfide and/or polysulfide end group provides a mercury removal media having increased reactivity, stability, and mercury removal ability. The mercury removal media described herein is prepared by reacting an organophilic clay containing onium ions with a mercapto, disulfide, tetrasulfide, and/or polysulfide end moiety. Alternatively, the clay can be made organophilic by onium ion reaction prior to or simultaneously with the coupling reaction of the mercapto- or sulfide- end group-containing coupling agent.