PROCESS FOR TREATING WATER USING ATOMIZED FERROUS POWDERS CONTAINING 0.25 TO 4 WT% CARBON AND 1 TO 6 WT% OXYGEN

摘要

A process for treating contaminated water in which water contaminated with a volatile organic compound is placed within a volume of iron powder granules which have been water atomized by striking a stream of molten iron with water jets and drying the resulting iron powder. The iron powder granul es contain iron, carbon and oxygen, wherein carbon is contained from 0.25 to 4 wt.% and oxygen is contained from 1 to 6 wt.%. The contaminated water is passed through or contacts the iron powder granules, whereby the contaminant is remediated.