ChitoClear in Water Treatment

ChitoClear has ability to bind metals, combined with its flocculating properties, provide applications in treating drinking water, pools and spas, and various waste streams.

ChitoClear help to recover metals: The cheletion ability referred to in the previous paragraph offers the opportunity to use chitosan to recover metals from electroplating, electronics manufacturing, metal finishing, photographic processing and the production of jewelry. Metals that chelate with chitosan and its derivatives include cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, iron, nickel, lead, manganese, mercury, nickel, silver and zinc.

ChitoClear binds to colloidal and dispersed particles in waste streams from rendering plants, vegetable processing plants and egg processing plants, thereby permitting recovery of proteins to use as feed additives, as indicated in Feed Ingredients, above.

ChitoClear can also be applied to flocculate other wastes, such as effluents from sewage and paper mills.