SORBENT FOR PURIFICATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL OBJECTS AND METHOD OF OBTAINING THEREOF Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC B01J20/22 B01J20/24 B01J20/30 

FIELD: chemistry.

SUBSTANCE: sorbent contains peat and a hydrophobising agent. Peat represents a residue from peat hydrolysis with hydrogen peroxide and ammonia, representing waste of the production of the plant growth stimulator from peat. Peat is preliminarily dried, separated, and dispersed. After that, a homogenous distribution of the hydrophobising agent on peat is realised. The obtained mixture of peat with the hydrophobiser is dried and supplied to sifting with obtaining the final product in the form of powder with the particle size of 0.5-5 mm.

EFFECT: sorbent is ecologically pure and possesses high characteristics of capacity, hydrophobicity, buoyancy, the time of saturation with oil to a limit value.

9 cl, 2 tbl, 3 ex