Inventors:
Donald G. Hager - Tucson AZ
Michael L. Massey - Covington VA
Frederick Rubel - Tucson AZ
Assignee:
Westvaco Corporation - New York NY
International Classification:
B01J 1904
Abstract:
An activated carbon adsorption column for the treatment of waste water is continuously sterilized and/or regenerated in pulsed batches of carbon amounting to 5 to 25 percent of the working column quantity transferred, alternately, from the influent face of the column to one of two, off-stream blow case vessels for steam processing and returned to the effluent face of the working column upon the next programmed pulsing interim.