US Patent Issued to MINTEK on Sept. 30 for "Water balance improvement in an effluent treatment process for sulphate removal" (South African Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,324, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to MINTEK (Randburg, South Africa).

"Water balance improvement in an effluent treatment process for sulphate removal" was invented by Tshamano Netshikhudini (Randburg, South Africa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to improve the solid/solid separation of an amorphous aluminium trihydroxide containing suspension from a gypsum containing suspension in a saturated calcium sulphate solution without the need for a dewatering step following the solid-solid separation."

The patent was filed on Sept. 24, 2020, under Application No. 17/633,800.

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