Breaking down hydroxylamine in aqueous solutions
AssigneeBASF SE
InventorsBernd Leutner, Frank Hanus, Hans-Michael Schneider, Otto Watzenberger, Uwe Wegmann
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Abstract
A process for breaking down hydroxylamine in aqueous solutions, especially wastewaters, by treatment with an oxidizing agent, which comprises using as said oxidizing agent an alkali metal hypohalite or alkaline earth metal hypohalite or peroxomonosulfuric or peroxodisulfuric acid or a salt thereof and carrying out the treatment with said oxidizing agent at a pH<8.
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A process for breaking down hydroxylamine in aqueous solutions by treatment with an oxidizing agent, which comprises using as said oxidizing agent an alkali metal hypohalite or alkaline earth metal hypohalite or peroxomonosulfuric or peroxodisulfuric acid or a salt thereof and carrying out the treatment with said oxidizing agent at a pH<8.
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