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US 2003/0141255 A1Published application
Method of dewatering sludge using enzymes
AssigneeOndeo Nalco Company
InventorsJawed Sarkar, Jitendra Shah, Manian Ramesh
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Abstract
This invention concerns a method of dewatering sludge comprising adding an effective amount of one or more cellulolytic enzymes and one or more peroxidases to the sludge.
Claims8
A method of dewatering sludge comprising
- i) adding an effective amount of one or more cellulolytic enzymes to the sludge;
- ii) adding an effective amount of one or more peroxidases to the sludge to form a mixture of water and coagulated and flocculated solids and
- iii) separating the coagulated and flocculated solids from the water.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.