A method and system for treating cyanide-containing fluids, in particular cyanide-containing waste water, wherein cyanide-containing fluid is subject to a pretreatment in a pretreatment zone, in which at least one predetermined pH value and a predetermined temperature is set, wherein a base fluid is formed with the pretreatment. Base fluid is reacted at least with an oxidation means in at least one reaction reactor, whereby an oxidation reaction of the cyanide is initiated. Fluid from the reaction reactor is transferred as intermediate fluid into at least one process reactor, in which conditions exist in which the oxidation reaction of the cyanide initiated in the reaction reactor can take place, wherein a process fluid is formed. A continuous flow of fluid is maintained at least periodically, wherein the base fluid is transferred continuously from the pretreatment zone into the reaction reactor, intermediate fluid is transferred continuously from the reaction reactor into the process reactor, and process fluid is removed continuously from the process reactor.

The present application provides a method for treating and recycling organic wastewater, comprising: 1) pretreating the organic wastewater; 2) subjecting an effluent obtained after pretreatment in step 1 to a heterogeneous Fenton reaction with Hangjin clay-supported nano-Fe.sub.3O.sub.4 as a catalyst, separating the catalyst from a reaction solution after completion of the reaction, and subjecting the reaction solution to a reaction to remove COD; 3) subjecting an effluent obtained in step 2 to an anaerobic ammonia oxidation reaction to denitrify by ammonia nitrogen reacting with nitrite nitrogen; 4) subjecting an effluent obtained in step 3 to an aerobic microbial decomposition and ultrafiltration membrane separation to remove COD and ammonia nitrogen; 5) filtering an effluent obtained in step 4 to remove large particles; 6) supplying an effluent obtained in step 5 to an RO system, and using an effluent from the RO system as circulating cooling water, and subjecting concentrated water from the RO system to a softening treatment; and 7) supplying softened concentrated water obtained in step 6 to an NF system for treatment, evaporating an effluent obtained after the treatment to recover NaCl, and returning a resulting concentrated water to step 1. The present application also provides a device for implementing the method for treating and recycling an organic wastewater.

A method for monitoring quality of a water flow in a pipe, by diverting a flow into a laser particle counter to count particles within a particle size interval in the water, to continuously determine the number of particles within the size interval, comparing the count with a reference value and taking a sample of the water from the pipe when the count exceeds a threshold value, and also diverting a flow of water from the pipe into a unit that separates the flow into fractions, and taking a sample of at least one of said fractions when the count exceeds a threshold value, and also sending an alarm signal when the count exceeds a threshold value. When the count exceeds at threshold value, the water is treated with ozone.

The invention provides a method of treating waste comprising the steps of: providing an electrochemical cell comprising a cathode, and an anode; supplying a waste stream comprising an organic compound which is a liquid or dissolved in a solvent and contacting the anode and cathode with the waste stream; electrochemically oxidising the organic compound at the anode; supplying oxygen to the cathode; electrochemically reducing the oxygen at the cathode; wherein the cathode comprises a poison resistant oxygen reduction catalyst.

A compact system for treating pharmaceutical waste at a location at which the pharmaceutical waste is disposed includes a housing having a door. The housing contains a waste influent tank configured to hold and discharge a fluid comprising pharmaceutical waste; a first container configured to hold and discharge hydrogen peroxide utilized in a chemical reaction to treat the pharmaceutical waste; a second container configured to hold and discharge aqueous iron solution utilized in the chemical reaction to treat the pharmaceutical waste; and a neutralizer tank in which the chemical reaction is carried out. The door of the housing is configured to move between an open position and a closed position to allow or deny access to an interior of the housing.

A process for the primary clarification of feeds, including chemically treated flocculated feeds, containing the target biomolecules of interest such as mAbs, mammalian cell cultures, or bacterial cell cultures, using a primary clarification depth filtration device without the use of a primary clarification centrifugation step or a primary clarification tangential flow microfiltration step. The primary clarification depth filtration device contains a porous depth filter having graded porous layers of varying pore ratings. The primary clarification depth filtration device filters fluid feeds, including chemically treated flocculated feeds containing flocculated cellular debris and colloidal particulates having a particle size distribution of approximately about 0.5 m to 200 m, at a flow rate of about 10 litres/m.sup.2/hr to about 100 litres/m.sup.2/hr. Kits and methods of using and making the same are also provided.

A method for forming, or crystallising, clathrates hydrates of a host molecule in a liquid including water includes the following consecutive steps: cooling the liquid to a temperature no higher than the crystallisation temperature of the clathrates hydrates; and placing the cooled liquid in contact with host molecules that are capable of forming clathrates hydrates and are adsorbed on a solid support that has a large specific surface area and is made of a hydrophobic and apolar material, whereby the host molecules are desorbed from the solid support that has a large specific surface area and is made of a hydrophobic and apolar material, and react with the water of the liquid in order to provide a liquid containing clathrates hydrates and the solid support.

Provided is a forward osmosis membrane-based water treatment system (including water desalination) using a switchable polar solvent as the draw solvent that is switched through the addition and removal of carbon dioxide. Provided is the use of a membrane system that designed to operate within the chemistry and properties of switchable polar solvents to promote water draw through the forward osmosis membrane, and a method of removing and reintroducing carbon dioxide to the switchable solvent.

A nanostructured material having a coral reef morphology of nanoflake walls is described. The nanostructured material comprises a Fe(II)/Fe(III) layered double hydroxide intercalated with an azo dye, and a synthesis method is discussed. The nanostructured material may be used to remove a contaminant from a solution by adsorption. The nanostructured material may be cleaned and reused with high adsorption efficiency.

The present invention belongs to the technical field of environmental engineering and provides a method for constructing a multistage food chain biofilm system enhanced by electrochemistry and an application in pharmaceutical wastewater. A flow-through electrochemical degradation module is constructed based on P/FTiO.sub.2-n porous membrane electrodes, and a multistage flow-through composite electrochemical-biological submerged fixed film reactor is constructed jointly with the PA-N-rGO fixed fiber carrier and applied to deep purification of high-risk substances in pharmaceutical wastewater. The flow-through electrochemical degradation module can also effectively degrade antibiotics resistance genes and refractory organics in the water, improve the biodegradability of the wastewater and improve the degradation performance and load of shock resistance of the system, so the multistage flow-through composite electrochemical-biological submerged fixed film reactor can realize the high-efficiency low-consumption treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater and effectively reduce the yield of excess activated sludge.