ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,232, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to UNIVERSITEIT GENT (Ghent, Belgium) and UMICORE (Brussels).
"Environmental-friendly process for the treatment of wastewater" was invented by Pieter Ostermeyer (Ghent, Belgium), Korneel Rabaey (Ghent, Belgium) and Tom Hennebel (Olen, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a process for the environmental-friendly treatment of sulfate-containing wastewater. The acidic, sulfate-containing wastewater is treated in a sulfate reducing bioreactor with influent and effluent looped through to the cathode compartment of an electrochemical cell. The electrochemical cell stabilizes the pH in the ...