A method and system is provided for using biochar in composting environments to control temperature, moisture, acid and pH levels, odors and bacterial cultures. The method further includes treating the biochar prior to combining it with the compost to further control such parameters.

Composite materials having high cohesive strength, formed from at least one polymer and from at least one compound selected from among mineral oxides, aluminosilicates and active carbon, are characterized by a mean particle size of at least 100 mm, a pore volume (Vd1) formed by pores having a diameter ranging from 3.6 to 1,000 nm, equal to at least 0.2 cm.sup.3/g, a cohesive strength such that its content of particles having a size of less than 100 mm, obtained after being subjected to an air pressure of 2 bar, of less than 1.5%, preferably 0.0%, by volume; such composite materials are formed into useful liquid supports, catalyst supports, additives, or liquid or gas filters, in particular into cigarette filters.

Bi-metal nanoadsorbents and methods for their preparation and use are provided. Methods of using bi-metal nanoadsorbents to remove contaminants from samples, such as water, are also provided.

This gas purification filter unit (10) is provided with: a first elimination unit (11) that eliminates gas component impurities among the impurities contained in ozone generated from an ozone generating device; and a second elimination unit (12) that is disposed at a later stage than the first elimination unit and that further eliminates solid particulate impurities from among the impurities from which the gas component has been eliminated. Ozone containing impurities are caused to flow in from the inflow end (10a) of such a gas purification filter unit (10) and is passed through the first elimination unit (11) and second elimination unit (12), and thus ozone from which impurities have been eliminated is discharged from an outflow end (10b).

A hyper-productive chromatography technique includes providing a scalable and stackable chromatographic cassette, loading a sample to be processed, operating the scalable chromatographic cassette having an adsorptive chromatographic bed having a volume greater than 0.5 liter by establishing a flow at a linear velocity greater than 500 cm/hr with a residence time of the loading step of less than one minute.

A cartridge for sample preparation includes an inlet configured to receive a collected sample, a phase transfer assembly including a plurality of bead layers, and an outlet. The collected sample is configured to be transferred through the bead layers of the phase transfer assembly to extract a compound therefrom. The outlet is configured to transfer the extracted compound to a detector for analysis of the extracted compound.

The invention discloses a core-shell structure polymer magnetic nanosphere with a high Cr (VI) adsorption capacity and its preparation method and application. The preparation method includes: adding Fe.sub.3O.sub.4 powder into a mixed solution of water and ethanol, dispersing Fe.sub.3O.sub.4 powder in the solution evenly by ultrasound, sequentially adding resorcinol and formaldehyde into the suspension to adjust a pH, stirring and reacting to obtain Fe.sub.3O.sub.4@RF evenly dispersed in a chitosan solution, dropwise adding the prepared suspension into a mixed solution of paraffin and span 80, stirring for a period of time, adding a glutaraldehyde aqueous solution, stirring and reacting to obtain a magnetic chitosan nanosphere. The magnetic chitosan nanosphere prepared may be applied to adsorbing Cr (VI) in a water solution. Not only the magnetic chitosan nanospheres prepared has a high adsorption capacity for Cr (VI), but also can be quickly separated by an external magnetic field after adsorption.

The present invention provides that powder is mainly constituted from secondary particles of hydroxyapatite. The secondary particles are obtained by drying a slurry containing primary particles of hydroxyapatite and aggregates thereof and granulating the primary particles and the aggregates. A bulk density of the powder is 0.65 g/mL or more and a specific surface area of the secondary particles is 70 m.sup.2/g or more. The powder of the present invention has high strength and is capable of exhibiting superior adsorption capability when it is used for an adsorbent an adsorption apparatus has.

The present disclosure provides a preparation method of AM-type polystyrene microsphere ofloxacin imprinted polymer as well as an application thereof. A monomer acrylamide and an initiator ammonium persulfate are subjected to graft polymerization on the surface of modified polystyrene primary amine resin, to get grafted particles; then an adsorption test of a levofloxacin solution by the grafted particles PAM/PSA is conducted, and then a levofloxacin surface molecularly imprinted material MIP-PAM/PSA is prepared by using ethylene glycol diglycidyl ether as the crosslinking agent. The present disclosure can realize the separation and purification of racemic ofloxacin effectively, thus providing a new method and material for separating and enriching s-type ofloxacin in the industry. Because the antibacterial efficacy of S-ofloxacin on Gram-negative bacteria and positive bacteria is 8-128 times that of its enantiomer R-ofloxacin, so the present technology can improve the efficacy of a drug greatly.

Disclosed is an adsorbent containing a metal oxide for adsorption of hydrogen sulfide in biogas, and a biogas purification system using the same.