605 results about "Thallium" patented technology

Ink compositions with modified properties result from using a powder size below 100 nanometers. Colored inks are illustrated. Nanoscale coated, uncoated, whisker inorganic fillers are included. The pigment nanopowders taught comprise one or more elements from the group actinium, aluminum, antimony, arsenic, barium, beryllium, bismuth, cadmuim, calcium, cerium, cesium, chalcogenide, cobalt, copper, dysprosium, erbium, europium, gadolinium, gallium, gold, hafnium, hydrogen, indium, iridium, iron, lanthanum, lithium, magnesium, manganese, mendelevium, mercury, molybdenum, neodymium, neptunium, nickel, niobium, nitrogen, oxygen, osmium, palladium, platinum, potassium, praseodymium, promethium, protactinium, rhenium, rubidium, scandium, silver, sodium, strontium, tantalum, terbium, thallium, thorium, tin, titanium, tungsten, vanadium, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, and zirconium.

A dual-energy x-ray imaging system searches a moving automobile for concealed objects. Dual energy operation is achieved by operating an x-ray source at a constant potential of 100 KV to 150 KV, and alternately switching between two beam filters. The first filter is an atomic element having a high k-edge energy, such as platinum, gold, mercury, thallium, lead, bismuth, and thorium, thereby providing a low-energy spectrum. The second filter provides a high-energy spectrum through beam hardening. The low and high energy beams passing through the automobile are received by an x-ray detector. These detected signals are processed by a digital computer to create a steel suppressed image through logarithmic subtraction. The intensity of the x-ray beam is adjusted as the reciprocal of the measured automobile speed, thereby achieving a consistent radiation level regardless of the automobile motion. Accordingly, this invention provides images of organic objects concealed within moving automobiles without the detritus effects of overlying steel and automobile movement.

A down hole cutting tool includes a cutting element support structure. The cutting element support structure has at least one cavity formed therein. A cutting element is disposed in the cavity. Braze alloy is also disposed in the cavity between the cutting element and the cutting element support structure. The braze alloy comprises between about 0.5% and about 10% by weight of at least one selected from the group of gallium (Ga), indium (In), thallium (Tl). Methods for building a down hole tool using the braze alloy are also disclosed.

A hydrogen storage material and process is provided in which catalyzed alkali borohydride materials and partially substituted borohydride materials are created and which may contain effective amounts of catalyst(s) which include transition metal oxides, halides, and chlorides of titanium, zirconium, tin, vanadium, iron, cobalt and combinations of the various catalysts and the destabilization agents which include metals, metal hydrides, metal chlorides and complex hydrides of magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium, aluminum, gallium, indium, thallium and combinations of the various destabilization agents. When the catalysts and destabilization agents are added to an alkali borodydride such as a lithium borohydride, the initial hydrogen release point of the resulting mixture is substantially lowered. Additionally, the hydrogen storage material may be rehydrided with weight percent values of hydrogen of at least about nine percent.

The invention relates to a comprehensive recovery method of zinc oxide fume dust. The method comprises the following steps: 1. performing alkali-washing on zinc oxide fume dust with Na2CO3 and NaOH in different stages: in the first stage of alkali wash, evenly mixing the zinc oxide fume dust and solid Na2CO3, adding water, stirring at high speed to dissolve the solid into solution with slag, and filtering to obtain first-stage alkali wash liquid and alkali wash slag; in the second stage of alkali wash, adding solid Na2CO3 and NaOH into the first-stage alkali wash slag, adding water, stirring to dissolve the solid, regulating the pH value, and filtering to obtain second-stage alkali wash liquid and alkali wash slag; and carrying out neutral leaching on the second-stage alkali wash slag, purifying and electrodepositing to obtain electric zinc; 2. leaching, displacing and the like to process the low temperature purified slag to obtain sponge cadmium; and 3. processing acid leached slag to obtain coarse indium, using high-temperature high-acidity leached slag as the raw material for recovering lead, and using alkali wash liquid for recovering thallium. In the invention, metals in ZnCl2, ZnF2 and PbCl2 form carbonate solid slag, chlorine and fluorine are dissolved in solution in the form of sodium salts, the slag and the liquids are respectively processed subsequently, and the products in every stage are refined processed to comprehensively recover zinc, cadmium, lead, thallium and indium.

A catalyst for oxidation of unsaturated and / or saturated aldehydes to unsaturated acids is disclosed where the catalyst includes at least molybdenum (Mo), phosphorus (P), vanadium (V), bismuth (Bi), and a first component selected from the group consisting of potassium (K), rubidium (Rb), cesium (Cs), thallium (Tl), or mixtures or combinations thereof, where the bismuth component was dissolved in an organic acid solution prior to adding the bismuth containing solution to a solution of the other components. Methods for making and using the catalysts are also disclosed.

Methods and apparatus are disclosed for remediating metal contaminants using hydrocarbons which stimulate the growth of hydrocarbon-utilizing bacteria. The metal contaminants may include heavy metals such as arsenic, antimony, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, mercury, iron, manganese, magnesium, radium, nickel, selenium, silver, thallium and zinc. The hydrocarbon may include alkanes, alkenes, Aalkynes, poly(alkene)s, poly(alkyne)s, aromatic hydrocarbons, aromatic hydrocarbon polymers and aliphatic hydrocarbons. Butane is a particularly suitable hydrocarbon which stimulates the growth of butane-utilizing bacteria. Remediation may occur in-situ or ex-situ, and may occur under aerobic, anaerobic or dual aerobic / anaerobic conditions. Examples of applications include the remediation of heavy metals, the remediation of arsenic impacted surface water, groundwater and / or soil, the remediation of acid mine drainage, and the treatment of spent metal plating solutions.

The invention relates to a method for removing a trace of thallium in sewage. The method includes the process steps of regulating the PH value of the thallium-contained sewage to 4, adding a ferrous sulfate solution to the sewage, evenly mixing the sewage with the ferrous sulfate solution, adding hydrogen peroxide to the sewage again, conducting stirring, oxidizing fluorosis univalence thallium (T1+) in the sewage into tervalence thallium (T13+), mixing ferrous iron and hydrogen peroxide into a fenton reagent, adding lime to the sewage and evenly conducting stirring so that the PH value of the sewage can be neutralized to be 7 to 9, hydrolyzing tervalence iron (Fe3+) in the sewage at the same time to form flocculent ferric hydroxide, adding an appropriate amount of power plant stove ash (electric duct collector stove ash) to the sewage, evenly conducting stirring, and adding a polyaluminium sulfate solution so that ferric hydroxide and thallium hydroxide can be adsorbed to the stove ash. Flocculent sediment generated through hydrolysis has the great surface area and quite strong adsorption capacity; the power plant stove ash can adsorb the flocculent sediment and colloid particles in the sewage and sink.