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Bio-GAC (™) Patents
"Our research and field development team was also busy this year as it had published its patented water treatment technology, Bio-GAC(TM) (Patent No: US 6,905,603 B2) for the treatment of toxic waste streams such as those caused by Hurricane Katrina and other man-made and natural disasters. We expect to license this technology in 2006 and use it in our own projects," added Brehm.

US patent No 6,905,603 B2
United States Patent 6,905,603
Mirzayi , et al. June 14, 2005
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Treatment of contaminated activated charcoal
Abstract
The method of providing for a fluid treatment, that includes providing a treatment zone containing granular activated charcoal, and providing a stream of water containing nutrients, contaminant degrading microbes and dissolved oxygen, and introducing the stream to a treatment zone to effect adsorption of nutrients and microbes onto the granular activated charcoal, thereby to provide a contaminant treatment matrix, whereby contaminant in fluid flow through the matrix is reduced.
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Inventors: Mirzayi; Behzad (8228 S. Jackson St., Littleton, CO 80122); Robinson; Mery C. (6965 El Camino Real, Number 105-279, Carlsbad, CA 92009); Smith; Alvin J. (4379 Modoc Rd., Santa Barbara, CA 93110); Colasito; Dominic J. (2707 Panorama Dr., Bakersfield, CA 91101)
Appl. No.: 052295
Filed: January 18, 2002
Current U.S. Class: 210/615; 210/150; 210/616; 210/617
Intern'l Class: C02F 003/00
Field of Search: 210/615-617,150


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