US Patent Issued to Evoqua Water Technologies on Aug. 25 for "Anoxic bioreactor treatment followed by pH adjusted peroxide/iron treatment for enhanced, efficient selenium removal in wastewaters" (Utah, New York, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,802, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Evoqua Water Technologies LLC (Pittsburgh).

"Anoxic bioreactor treatment followed by pH adjusted peroxide/iron treatment for enhanced, efficient selenium removal in wastewaters" was invented by Andrew Black (Clearfield, Utah), Luke Halverson (Anderson, S.C.), Timothy Pickett (Salt Lake City) and Rebeccah Chapman (New Peltz, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating selenium-containing wastewater comprises performing anoxic biological treatment of the selenium-containing wastewater to produce a first liquid including a residual dissolved selenium species, introducing an oxidant in...