There is provided a system and a method for regenerating a material that reduce the incidence of scaling due to scale forming contaminants. The method may include reducing a temperature of a treated material exiting a wet air oxidation unit in a scale reducing heat exchanger prior to delivery of the treated material to a second heat exchanger which heats a source waste material comprising a scale forming contaminant therein with heat from the first treated material to form a heated waste material comprising the scale forming contaminant.

A carbon-based porous material microscopically exhibiting a three-dimension 1 cross-linked net-like hierarchical pore structure, a specific surface area of 5002,500 m.sup.2/g and a water contact angle greater than 90. The surface of the carbon-based porous material has a through hierarchical pore structure with mesopores nested in macropores and micropores nested in mesopores, the content of mesopores is high, and there are more adsorption activity sites exposed on the surface of the material, so that the diffusion path for organic gas molecules in the adsorption process is shortened. At the same time, the absorption and desorption rates may also be accelerated and the desorption temperature may be lowered. Furthermore, benefits result for solving the desorption and recovery problems of organic gas molecules. Moreover, the defects of ordinary porous carbon materials being easily hygroscopic, having a weakened capacity to adsorb target gas molecules in a humid environment, etc. are further effectively solved.

A solid-liquid separation device performs dehydration/deoiling from a mixture of water and/or oil and a solid. Substance A is capable of dissolving water and oil. The device includes substance B circulated while generating phase change in a closed system; a compressor; a first heat exchanger exchanging condensation heat of substance B and evaporation heat of substance A; a second heat exchanger exchanging evaporation heat of substance B and condensation heat of substance A; and a treatment tank for mixing substance A with an object to be treated; substance A having been evaporated while separated from the water or the oil in the first heat exchanger, and condensed in the second heat exchanger. The first heat exchanger is lower than the treatment tank in a vertical direction, and a connection port of the first heat exchanger and a lower portion of the treatment tank are connected with a flow path.

A method and system are disclosed for regenerating carbonaceous adsorbent, the method comprising the steps of: a) providing a carbonaceous adsorbent comprising a catalyst and adsorbed contaminants, b) pyrolysing of the adsorbed contaminants, c) reactivating the carbonaceous adsorbent by subjecting the carbonaceous adsorbent to steam thereby obtaining a reactivated carbonaceous adsorbent, d) cooling the thus obtained reactivated carbonaceous adsorbent to a temperature of less than 250? C. and e) oxidizing catalyst that is in a reduced state following steps b) and c) comprised in the reactivated carbonaceous adsorbent.

A method is disclosed for avoiding self combustion of carbonaceous adsorbent comprising a catalyst, the method comprising blowing air through said carbonaceous adsorbent thereby oxidizing catalyst and/or components that are in a reduced state and simultaneously cooling the carbonaceous adsorbent.

A vertically oriented plasma reactor is provided. In another aspect, a plasma reactor includes a vertically elongated vacuum chamber, a wall internally projecting within a middle section of the housing, magnets, electrodes and a radio frequency source. A further aspect employs a workpiece-entry port and an opposite workpiece material-exit port, with one located adjacent a top end and the other adjacent a bottom end of a vertically elongated reactor housing or vacuum chamber. Yet another aspect employs a moving or falling-bed plasma reactor for use in activating biochar material.

A method for producing a nanocomposite sorbent comprising carbon nanotube-grafted acrylic acid/acrylamide copolymer which involves copolymerization of acrylic acid and acrylamide in the presence of an aqueous dispersion of carbon nanotubes. The method yields a nanocomposite sorbent material having a reversible adsorption capacity phenol of 5 to 2500 ?g of phenol per mg of nanocomposite sorbent. Also disclosed is a method for removing organic pollutants from water using the nanocomposite sorbent.

There is provided an active coke regeneration mixed vapor treatment method. The method comprises the following process steps of: A) performing a first water condensation on a mixed vapor produced during an active coke regeneration process by spray water in a first condensation zone; B) performing a second water condensation on the mixed vapor that is after the first water condensation by spray water in a second condensation zone, to further condensate and purify the mixed vapor; C) eliminating moisture in a gas through mist elimination from the gas fraction in the mixed vapor that is after the second water condensation, and discharging the remaining gas from the upper of the second condensation zone; and, D) discharging active coke micro powder in the mixed vapor that is after the second water condensation, with condensation water. In the present invention, an apparatus for implementing the abovementioned method is also provided.

There are provided herein methods and systems for increasing efficiency in a multi-stage activated carbon system. The methods and systems provide a cleaned carbon solids fraction and a waste liquor from wet air regeneration, and direct the same to a second stage and a first stage, respectively, of the multi-stage activated carbon system to enhance removal efficiency therein.

A method is provided for regenerating an odor absorbent in a motor vehicle HVAC system. That method includes the step of heating and regenerating the odor absorbent using heat from a heater core of the HVAC system.