Sorbster-Hg

Adsorbent Media optimized for Mercury Removal

Description

Sorbster-Hg is a functionalized, enriched alumina media that covalently bonds soluble mercury and other trace contaminatns to its active sites. Sorbster-Hg is used to achieve low mercury concentrations in wastewater from industrial processes and ground water.

Feature and Benefits

  • Used Sorbster-Hg media passes the EPA TCLP test and allows for non-hazardous disposal options.
  • Sorbster-Hg has an adsorption capacity up to 75 percent its weight.
  • Sorbster-Hg requires fewer changeouts than competing media.
  • Sorbster-Hg's required contact time is 50 percent less than competing media, resulting in a smaller equipment footprint.
  • Sorbster-Hg's active and diverse chemistry allows it to selectively capture and chemisorb mercury.
  • Sorbster-Hg is uniformly active throughout the media, resulting in excellent chemisorptions.
  • Constant chemisorption kinetics in a wide variety of applications.
  • Sorbster-Hg is effective over a broad temperature range.
  • Sorbster-Hg does not support bacterial growth.



Download the Sorbster-Hg Product Sheet

 

Particle Size (um) >841
Bulk Density (#/ft3) 50
Moisture Content <10%
pH Range 3-10
Flux Range 1-5 GPM/ft2
Empty Bed Contact Time 15-30 minutes
Backwash Flow 10-12 GPM/ft2
Backwash Bed Expansion 15%

Sorbster media is effective at all mercury concentrations across a wide range of water quality and temperature. The three case histories represent a variety of industrial water conditions and mercury levels. Meeting new mercury discharge limits at part per trillion targets is achievable with Sorbster media, as it readily attains very low ppt mercury levels.

Sorbster media has a capacity for mercury removal up to 75 weight percent mercury to media, and Sorbster media can be applied in standard vessels designed for water flow through. Once capacity is attained, Sorbster media passes EPA TCLP leaching tests that enables disposal of mercury laden Sorbster into non-hazardous landfills.

Case Studies

 

Send Us Your Water

As a precursor to pilot-scale field work or long-term treatment solutions, MAR Systems offers an initial treatability study to find the best media solution for your water. To find out more, click here.

MAR Systems in the News

 

View the MAR Systems' whitepaper presented at WEFTEC 2012.

Removal of Selenium in Refinery Effluent with Absorbtion Media

MAR Systems' Case Study

Sorbster™ Removes Selenium From Coal Mine Tailings Ponds and Process Waters

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