Liquid purification or separation – Processes – Treatment by living organism
Patent
1995-04-11
1996-09-10
Upton, Christopher
Liquid purification or separation
Processes
Treatment by living organism
210717, 210747, 210170, 210912, 4352625, C02F 328
Patent
active
055542905
ABSTRACT:
An insitu method and system for removing dissolved heavy metals and nitrates from groundwater is disclosed. The invention comprises the formation of insitu anaerobic reactive zones to precipitate and filter out dissolved heavy metals as metallic sulfides and to degrade nitrate to nitrogen gas. The invention is comprised of an injection well or wells into a saturated zone that contains dissolved heavy metals or nitrate contaminated groundwater. A conduit, located within the injection well, pumps carbohydrates in the case of nitrates, into the contaminated groundwater. Indigenous microbes digest the carbohydrates, producing an anaerobic condition within the reactive zones. In the presence of sulfates, the sulfates are reduced to sulfide ions. The sulfides readily combine with the dissolved heavy metal ions and form insoluble precipitates. The resultant precipitates are filtered out by the soil matrix within and down gradient of the reactive zones. In the case of nitrates, the anaerobic conditions formed within the reactive zones convert the nitrate first to nitrite and then to nitrogen gas which is eventually stripped out of the groundwater.
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