The Treatment Process

The Quicksilver process can treat a wide range of materials including:-

•  Waste from the Chlor Alkali Industry
•  Contaminated Carbon used in natural gas purification
•  Powder generated from fluorescent lamp recycling
•  Inorganic mercury compounds such as mercuric chloride
•  Mercury contaminated catalysts
•  Mercury contaminated soil froml land remediation
•  Dental amalgam
•  Mercury button cell batteries
•  Medical and scientific instruments

Quicksilver can arrange collection from customers' premises. No job is too small.
Whatever the problem Quicksilver will investigate treatment and give a prompt reply to all enquiries.

Mercury Reprosessing

Our process is based on technology developed by Mercury Recovery Services Inc. in USA. The Quicksilver Recovery Process has the following basic steps:-

• Material is mixed with additive to break down mercury compounds to elemental mercury during heating process.
• Prepared material placed in trays and introduced into furnace.
• Furnace heated under vacuum to initial temperature of just above 100 deg C to remove any water vapour.
• Furnace temperature then increased to approx 800 deg C to remove mercury.
• Mercury trapped by condensing and collected in flasks.

The Products

Products which are typically the outcome of the above process are:

• Mercury of minimum purity 99.99%
• Residual ash with mercury levels below 20 ppm (and usually 1ppm or less) suitable for landfill. Other options for re-use can be investigated on request.
• The process produces no liquid effluent directly .All washings from cleaning processes etc are recycled through an effluent treatment system.
• The gaseous emissions are treated through a series of activated carbon columns to ensure that the eventual discharge remains below the authorised limits.
• All activated carbon and effluent treatment materials are processed back through the system to provide a total recycling solution.