MUMBAI, India, May 30 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517022483 A) filed by AT&S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik Aktiengesellschaft, Leoben, Austria, on March 12, for 'separating a foreign metal from a process fluid, method and apparatus.'
Inventor(s) include Trinkl, Florian; Kern, Konstantin; Klocek, Jolanta; Ebinger, Christoph; Oberhammer, Manuel; Zanker, Andreas; Dragoi, Andreas; Moitzi, Heinz; and Gross, Friedrich.
The application for the patent was published on May 30, under issue no. 22/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "There is described a method of processing a metal-containing fluid (101), the method comprising: i) providing the metal-containing fluid (101) that comprises at least one metal in a first oxidation state; ii) performing a membrane electrolysis (110), thereby oxidizing the metal from the first oxidation state to a second oxidation state to obtain an oxidized metal-containing fluid (102); and thereafter iii) streaming the oxidized metal-containing fluid (102) through an ion exchange device (120), thereby separating the metal in the second oxidation state from the oxidized metal-containing fluid (102) to obtain a processed metal-containing fluid (105)."
The patent application was internationally filed on Sept. 05, 2023, under International application No.PCT/EP2023/074336.
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