Water purification material
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsHideyuki Tsuji, Tatsuoki Kono, Akiko Suzuki, Shinetsu Fujieda, Shinji Murai, Nobuyuki Ashikaga, Katsuya Yamamoto
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Abstract
The present invention provides a water purification material capable of selectively adsorbing phosphorus dissolved in wastewater, and also provides a water purification method employing the material. The water purification material comprises a composite metal hydroxide containing iron ions and calcium ions in its structure, and this composite metal hydroxide has a layered structure. In the water purification method of the present invention, the water purification material is brought into contact with wastewater so as to remove and recover phosphate ions in the wastewater.
Claims4
A water purification material comprising a composite metal hydroxide, wherein said composite metal hydroxide having a layered structure containing iron ions and calcium ions;
- and said material shows, as a result of X-ray crystal structure analysis, a diffraction pattern in which a total intensity of the main peaks attributed to calcium hydroxide or iron hydroxide is not larger than ½ of an intensity of the main peak attributed to the layered structure.
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