US Patent Issued to CHEMTREAT on Aug. 12 for "Methods of treating water to remove selenium or mercury" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,704, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to CHEMTREAT INC. (Glen Allen, Va.).

"Methods of treating water to remove selenium or mercury" was invented by Vladimir Djukanovic (Glen Allen, Va.), William Henderson (Glen Allen, Va.), Nicholas Seymour (Williamsburg, Va.) and Robert Jeffers (Glen Allen, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating water to remove selenium and/or mercury that is dissolved in the water. The method includes adding an acid to the water to reduce the pH, adding a metal reagent to the water that is effective to reduce the selenium and/or mercury to a lower oxidation state, and then removing the reduced sele...