US Patent Issued to Evoqua Water Technologies on Feb. 3 for "Methods and systems for treating phosphogypsum-containing water" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,090, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Evoqua Water Technologies LLC (Pittsburgh).

"Methods and systems for treating phosphogypsum-containing water" was invented by Hao Dang (Dracut, Mass.), Wenxin Du (Dover, N.H.), George Y. Gu (Andover, Mass.), Michael J. Shaw (Derry, N.H.) and Simon P. Dukes (Chelmsford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for treating phosphogypsum-containing water are disclosed. The water may be treated so as to promote precipitation of one or more target constituents and to facilitate downstream membrane treatment. A coagulant may be added to promote phosphate recovery. Related systems are also disclose...