A New Perspective on Wastewater Treatment: The Key Applications of Guanidinothiourea

Guanidinothiourea is a quite useful chemical substance and can play a significant role in the field of wastewater treatment.

Firstly, guanidinothiourea can "interact" with some metal ions in wastewater. Heavy metal ions such as copper ions and mercury ions, if present in wastewater and directly discharged, will pollute the environment and harm organisms. Guanidinothiourea can react with these metal ions and separate them from the wastewater, just like fishing out the dirt from the water. In this way, the content of heavy metals in the wastewater can be reduced, making the wastewater cleaner and meeting the discharge standards.

Secondly, for some industrial wastewater containing special pollutants, guanidinothiourea can participate in chemical reactions to decompose or transform those difficult - to - treat pollutants into substances that are easier to handle. For example, for some organic pollutants, guanidinothiourea can prompt them to react and change their structures, thus simplifying the subsequent treatment steps, improving the efficiency of wastewater treatment, and enabling the wastewater to be purified better.