Green sorption material mixes for water treatment
AssigneeUniversity of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
InventorsMartin Wanielista, Ni-Bin Chang
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Abstract
Media compositions for use in wastewater treatment, stormwater treatment, CSO treatment and greenroof stormwater management systems as filtration media, plant growth media or pollutant retention media. Media composition includes at least one of a recycled material selected from a group consisting of tire crumb, wood sawdust and paper and a naturally occurring material selected from a group consisting of sand, limestone, sandy clay, expanded clay, organics used for processing geothermal water, organics used for agricultural drainage basins and filtration, and organics for aquaculture drainage and organics used for silviculture and forest drainage, and organics used as growing media.
Claims33
A sorption media composition consisting of:
- at least two of a recycled material and a naturally occurring material,
- the recycled material selected from a group consisting of tire crumb, wood sawdust and compost, and
- the naturally occurring material selected from a group consisting of sand, limestone, sandy clay, expanded clay, and peat.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.