Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, machine, device, manufacture, circuit, composition of matter, and/or user interface adapted for and/or resulting from, and/or a method and/or machine-readable medium comprising machine-implementable instructions for, activities that can comprise and/or relate to, reacting reactants comprising a ferric/ferrous chelate and a sour gas stream.

The invention discloses methods and apparatus(es) for the removal and control of pollutants such as gases and suspended particulates in the air of an enclosed space or an outdoor environment by passing the air through absorbent media. The absorbent media includes any liquid, solid or combination of liquid and solid media that is capable of absorbing a material in which it comes in contact. In one aspect of the invention, formaldehyde is removed by air sparging through a liquid such as water, optionally containing additional scavenging agents.

Waste treatment comprises heating it in a chamber to effect pyrolysis of the waste, introducing oxygen into the chamber to effect combustion of the pyrolyzed waste, and contacting off-gas from the pyrolysis and/or combustion steps with an oxidation catalyst to convert carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons in the off-gas into carbon dioxide and water and with a reduction catalyst to convert nitrous oxides to nitrogen and oxygen. Thus, domestic waste is treated in a batch process using catalytic converters to reduce the level of toxic components before off-gas reaches the atmosphere.

There are provided methods for treating a gas having an undesirable odor. The methods comprise contacting the gas with an acidic aqueous oxidizing composition having a pH of about 2.0 to about 3.0 and comprising at least one cation of a metal; a sequestering agent; and H.sub.2O.sub.2 and submitting the gas and the composition to UV radiation when the gas and the composition are contacting each other, wherein the treatment permits to reduce by at least 60% intensity of the undesirable odor.

A caustic scrubber for removing SO.sub.2 from flue gas for use in a fuel cell assembly includes a caustic scrubber tower including a packed bed of material, a flue gas inlet configured to direct a flue gas into the caustic scrubber tower, a scrubber solution pump configured to pump a scrubber solution including NaOH and H.sub.2O.sub.2 into the caustic scrubber tower, and a spent scrubber solution outlet configured to discharge spent scrubber solution including sulfur salts formed from a reaction between the scrubber solution and SO.sub.2 in the flue gas.

There is provided a method for reducing the content of at least one water soluble volatile organic compound in a gas. The method comprises contacting the gas with an aqueous acidic oxidizing composition comprising H.sub.2O.sub.2 and a metal catalyst, and submitting the at least one water soluble volatile organic compound and the aqueous acidic oxidizing composition to an UV radiation.

A device and a method produces fertilizer from the exhaust gases of a production system, for example a system for producing cement. The exhaust gases are completely converted such that the exhaust gases are not released into the environment. For this purpose, the exhaust gases are introduced directly into the device from the production system. Exhaust gases such as NO.sub.x and/or SO.sub.2 are first oxidized in the device and then reprocessed into NH.sub.4NO.sub.3 or (NH.sub.4).sub.2SO.sub.4. CO.sub.2 is reprocessed into NH.sub.4HCO.sub.3 in the device while nitrogen is converted into ammonia, and the ammonium, among others, is used to produce NH.sub.4HCO.sub.3 from CO.sub.2.

Method for scrubbing sulfuryl fluoride, which is accomplished by placing a fluid comprising sulfuryl fluoride in contact with an aqueous solution of a base and a peroxide having at least oneOOH group. Also described is kit suitable for use with the sulfuryl fluoride scrubbing method.

A method for improving indoor air quality in a room, comprising drawing air from the room and guiding the air into a gas/liquid contactor charged with aqueous alkali hydroxide/H.sub.2O.sub.2 solution, passing the air through a perforated membrane installed in the gas/liquid contactor below the surface level of the aqueous alkali hydroxide/H.sub.2O.sub.2 solution, such that bubbles produced travel through said solution, and getting treated air with improved quality from said gas/liquid contactor, said treated air is characterized by having: reduced carbon dioxide levels; and/or reduced VOC levels; and/or reduced microbiological load. An air purifier to carry out the method is also provided.

A method for gas treatment and purification, comprising: generating ozone from a supply of gas comprising an oxygen (O.sub.2) gas in presence of a defined voltage; oxidizing the ozone (O.sub.3), in an oxidization chamber, in presence of light of a pre-defined wavelength and at least one oxidation catalyst to generate a reactive oxygen species (ROS); feeding, in a first reactive space, the generated ROS and water from a water tank to generate the ROS comprising hydroxyl radicals; and supplying, in a second reactive space, the ROS comprising the hydroxyl radicals and a feed gas that comprises one or more contaminants to produce a first treated gas, wherein the first treated gas is produced from the reaction of the feed gas with the ROS comprising the hydroxyl radicals.