US Patent Issued to Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies Support on Oct. 7 for "Method for treating water to reduce the dissolved silica content thereof" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,983, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies Support (Saint-Maurice, France).

"Method for treating water to reduce the dissolved silica content thereof" was invented by Bastien Riviere (Brueil en Vexin, France) and Vincent Georgeaud (Jouy le Moutier, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for treating water to reduce the dissolved silica content thereof, the method being characterised in that it comprises at least one step of adsorbing the dissolved silica, the step consisting in passing the water through a reactor housing an adsorbent granular material consisting of grains of iron hydroxide (III)...