US 12,220,745 B2
Method for producing zero-valent metals in filtering media
Rajandrea Sethi, Turin (IT); Carlo Bianco, Turin (IT); Andrea Gallo, Turin (IT); and Tiziana Anna Elisabetta Tosco, Turin (IT)
Assigned to POLITECNICO DI TORINO, Turin (IT)
Appl. No. 17/280,206
Filed by POLITECNICO DI TORINO, Turin (IT)
PCT Filed Oct. 11, 2019, PCT No. PCT/IB2019/058700
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 26, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/084378, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 30, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 102018000009831 (IT), filed on Oct. 26, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0033283 A1, Feb. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. B22F 9/24 (2006.01); B01D 15/20 (2006.01); B22F 1/054 (2022.01); B22F 7/08 (2006.01); C02F 1/28 (2023.01); C02F 1/48 (2023.01); C02F 1/70 (2023.01); C02F 101/30 (2006.01)
CPC B22F 9/24 (2013.01) [B01D 15/206 (2013.01); B22F 1/056 (2022.01); B22F 7/08 (2013.01); C02F 1/288 (2013.01); C02F 1/48 (2013.01); C02F 1/705 (2013.01); B22F 2304/05 (2013.01); C01P 2002/85 (2013.01); C02F 1/281 (2013.01); C02F 2101/308 (2013.01); C02F 2305/08 (2013.01)] 38 Claims
 
1. A method for modifying mechanical, electrical, chemical, chemical-physical, microbiological, hydrodynamic, geochemical, geotechnical, and/or superficial properties of an in-flow filtering medium and/or of a fluid contained in the filtering medium, comprising a production, inside the filtering medium, of microparticles, nanoparticles, and/or coverings of the filtering medium containing at least one zero-valent metal by means of an introduction of a first aqueous solution of at least one metal inside the filtering medium and an introduction of a second aqueous solution of at least one inorganic reducing agent inside the filtering medium, wherein introducing the first aqueous solution and introducing the second aqueous solution is without interrupting fluid flow through the filtering medium.