During my industrial ...
Published by Imre Pascik, Managing Director bei LEVAPOR GmbH, Leverkusen, Germany
During my industrial employment in the Chemical Industry with several production units, for the most of units emitting persistent or toxic pollutant various pretreatment processes have been developed and applied, like wet oxidation for "cracking" highly concentrated, persistent pollutants, membrane filtration for enhenced product recovery ( as well as lower degree of pollution), reactive extraction, distillation, but also biological pretreatment for special effluent streams by special microbial mixed cultures.Very important and useful is the analysis of production processes with the target, to optimise or to replace them by modern, water saving, lower polluting alternatives. Our latest successfull project is the removal of a heterocyclic intermediate from a special effluent strem in petrochemistry by immobilised mixed cultures.