A composite material for use in water treatment. The composite material includes a porous matrix including a resin capable of retaining a catalyst and magnetic material therein, and includes a density regulating portion disposed therein. The catalyst is capable of facilitating a chemical reaction involving a contaminants in the water. The magnetic material and density regulating portion can be used to separate the composite material from treated water. Systems and methods of use involving passive water treatment, continuous water treatment, solar light exposure, UV light exposure, and electrochemical cells, employing photochemical, electrochemical, and photoelectrochemical reactions are described. Methods of manufacture are described.

Disclosed in certain embodiments are sorbents for capturing heavy hydrocarbons via thermal swing adsorption processes.

Provided are a noble metal adsorbent, a method for recovering a noble metal, and a method for regenerating a noble metal adsorbent that can easily recover noble metal while high adsorption performance for noble metals is achieved. The noble metal adsorbent according to the present invention includes a metal sulfide. The metal sulfide is constituted of, for example, molybdenum disulfide particles. The method for recovering a noble metal according to the present invention includes adsorbing a noble metal onto the noble metal adsorbent, and thereafter heating and volatilizing the noble metal adsorbent in the presence of oxygen to recover the noble metal.

The present disclosure relates to a process for capturing carbon-dioxide from a gas stream. In order to capture the carbon-dioxide, a support is provided and potassium carbonate (K.sub.2CO.sub.3) is impregnated thereon to form an adsorbent comprising potassium carbonate (K.sub.2CO.sub.3) impregnated support. The adsorbent is activated to form an activated adsorbent. The gas stream is passed through the adsorber to enable adsorption of the carbon-dioxide on the activated adsorbent to form a carbon-dioxide laden adsorbent. The carbon-dioxide laden adsorbent is transferred to a desorber for at least partially desorbing the carbon-dioxide from the carbon-dioxide laden adsorbent by passing a carbon-dioxide deficient stream through the desorber. The partially regenerated adsorbent is returned to the adsorber for adsorbing the carbon-dioxide from the carbon-dioxide. The process of the present disclosure reduces the overall energy demand by partially regenerating the adsorbent.

Provided is a method for producing an adsorbent used for removing carbon dioxide from a gas containing carbon dioxide, the method including a reaction step of reacting a mixture containing tetravalent cerium and at least one kind selected from the group consisting of urea, a urea derivative and an amide compound.

The invention provides methods and systems for washing adsorptive media with minimal water consumption. More specifically, the invention provides methods and systems for in situ regeneration and/or sanitization of adsorptive media, such as activated carbon, using back-and-forth washing.

A fuel tank inerting system is disclosed. The system includes a fuel tank and a catalytic reactor with an inlet, an outlet, a reactive flow path between the inlet and the outlet, and a catalyst on the reactive flow path. The catalytic reactor is arranged to receive fuel from a fuel flow path in operative communication with the fuel tank and oxygen from an oxygen source, and to catalytically react a mixture of the fuel and oxygen along the reactive flow path to generate an inert gas. An inert gas flow path provides inert gas from the catalytic reactor to the fuel tank. An adsorbent is disposed along the fuel flow path or along the reactive flow path.

Processes and apparatuses for converting PFAS. PFAS are heated and introduced to a reactant which will convert the PFAS. The PFAS may be in a stream that is a PFAS enriched stream formed by desorbing the PFAS from an adsorbent which removed the PFAS from a contaminant stream. An effluent from the PFAS conversion reaction is treated in a treatment zone and a treated effluent may be released to the atmosphere.

An ammonia chemical species desorption process desorbs ammonia chemical species adsorbed onto a Prussian blue derivative more simply at lower cost under milder conditions as compared with using an aqueous solution of a salt or strong acid, and only water. This ammonia chemical species desorption process includes an ammonia chemical desorption step of bringing carbon dioxide and water into contact with a Prussian blue derivative represented by the following general formula (1), thereby desorbing an ammonia chemical species.
A.sub.xM[M(CN).sub.6].sub.y.Math.zH.sub.2O(1)
where x is 0 to 3, y is 0.1 to 1.5, z is 0 to 6, A is at least one cation of hydrogen, ammonium, an alkaline metal, and an alkaline earth metal, and M and M are each independently at least one cation of at least one of atoms having atomic numbers 3 to 83 except for ammonium, an alkali metal, and an alkaline earth metal.

A method for producing lime or dolime, which includes a calcination step for the calcination of calcareous or dolomitic material which is brought into contact with the first fumes which are obtained by combustion of fuel with an oxidizing gas, a cooling of calcined lime or dolime with discharge and collection thereof and a release of a gaseous effluent containing CO.sub.2. Subsequent processing steps result in the formation of a CaO-based sorbent material with separation between the CaO-based sorbent material and a CO.sub.2-concentrated gas stream which is collected. The recycling of said separated CaO-based sorbent material is recycled into a CO.sub.2 depletion step resulting in the extraction of a valorizable fraction of the CaCO.sub.3CaO based charge with a compensatory introduction of fresh CaCO.sub.3 in the calcination step.