US Patent Issued to COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH on Sept. 23 for "Solvent assisted cavitation for waste water treatment" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,138, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH (New Delhi).

"Solvent assisted cavitation for waste water treatment" was invented by Vinay Manoharrao Bhandari (Pune, India) and Pravin B. Patil (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a solvent assisted cavitation process for the removal of pollutants from waste water comprising treating waste water in a batch or continuous process in a cavitation device fed with 1-10% of an immiscible solvent resulting in a reduction in concentration of ammoniacal nitrogen and/or COD in the waste water."

The patent was filed ...