Abstract:
Systems, apparatus and methods are described that control and manage wastewater collection and treatment. One or more sensors monitor and measure levels of contaminants, other chemicals and or environmental conditions in a well of a collection station and/or in inflow and/or outflow mains. An additive that can include one or more of ozone, oxygen, a bioagent, bleach, peroxide and other chemicals, and selected to treat chemicals and/or contaminants in wastewater, can be mixed with waste water in the well and the main. A dispersion assembly deployed within the collection station is adapted to mix and spray the waste water and additive onto a wall of the well or surface of a body of wastewater in the well. A processor configured to control the rate at which the additive is provided to the dispersion assembly or force main based on measurements of contaminants received from the first and second sensors.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a UV reactor for performing chemical reactions in a pumpable medium, optionally also a multiphase medium, by means of UV radiation, having a reactor chamber (1) through which the medium can flow in a flow direction (2) from an inlet to an outlet, wherein the reactor chamber (1) is permeated by a plurality of UV-transparent jacket tubes (7; 10 – 15; 10’ - 15) disposed one behind the other in the flow direction, and in which UV radiation sources for emitting UV radiation are disposed in the reactor chamber (1), wherein jacket tubes (7; 10 – 15; 10’ – 15) disposed one behind the other are staggered in the circumferential direction of the reactor chamber (1) by an angle α relative to each other.
Abstract:
An apparatus for a programmable self sanitizing water dispenser apparatus with a digital controller as well as a programmable method for generating ozone for cleaning the reservoir and the water contained within it. The apparatus includes an anti-spill receiver that houses the controller and that can contain a ozone generator.
Abstract:
The device is of the frustum dispersion type having a housing forming a conical cavity, sealed at its large end, tapering to a discharge orifice at the other end. There is a fluid inlet, which tangential to the cavity near the sealed end. There is a hollow, tapered helix cut cone shape in the center of the cavity, affixed to the sealed end, with the point thereof axially aligned with the discharge orifice to help enable the continuous swirling motion of the contained fluid and to act as a gas inlet port to start the formation of a gas vortex. As fluid in the cavity approaches the discharge orifice, it is accelerated because of the reduction of area inside the cavity as it tapers. The change in specific gravities between the fluid and the gas causes a swirling centrifugal force on the liquid and a centripetal inner swirling of the gas. The result is at the point of discharge, the fluid is heavily loaded with small bubbles of gas.
Abstract:
A method for clarifying a fluid such as an exhaust gas or a wastewater, which comprises providing one or more static mixers in the passage route of the fluid, to mix and react the fluid with a clarifying agent such as ozone, thereby clarifying the fluid. The method allows the clarification of a fluid such as an exhaust gas or a wastewater with significantly good efficiency, and also allows the simplification of an apparatus for use in the clarification and the markedly reduction of the cost required for the clarification.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an integral system for treating the water for cooling towers and other processes such as reverse osmosis rejection, regeneration of the anionic units of demineralization systems, aircraft blue water and wastewater, in which it is desired to reduce and/or eliminate contaminants such as silica, total, of calcium and magnesium hardness, suspended solids, organic matter and microorganisms, heavy metals, detergents or arsenic, for obtaining a water quality that enables it to be reused in different industrial processes, generating savings in terms of water and chemicals. The system is characterized in that the water to be treated passes through an electrochemical cell with plates of aluminum, iron or some other metal, and, when an electric current is applied at an amperage that allows an optimal current density to yield the aluminum required to form a hydroxide of aluminum, iron or some other metal, which, when reacting with the contaminants present in the water to be treated, forms an iodine that is later separated out from the water, enabling the treated water to be reused by this system, by integrating the processes of filtration and ozonation it enables better water quality to be obtained for reuse in cooling towers, industrial processes, general services, irrigation of green areas or any other use. The technological innovation in the present invention is that it totally eliminates the silica present in industrial waters, allowing reuse of this water in different processes owing to the quality obtained. In addition to reducing the calcium and magnesium hardness salt concentration, preventing the formation of encrustations and, in cooling -tower systems, making it possible to increase concentration cycles, thereby generating savings of water and chemicals, it reduces microbiological proliferation, which will enable industry in general to replace conventional industrial water-treatment programs with this new technological alternative. The advantages and benefits of the present invention are that it allows reuse and recycling of 100% of the water that has to be discarded in cooling towers, reverse osmosis rejection, regeneration of anionic units of demineralization systems and wastewater from industry, generating financial savings by allowing reuse of the water that is currently necessary to discard, thereby reducing the quantity of required chemicals essential for cooling towers and wastewater, reducing the impact on the environment caused by water being discarded with contaminants and chemicals content that makes it impossible for it to be reused. Furthermore, it allows the elimination of the contaminants present in the water from wells that contain contaminants such as arsenic, cyanide, iron, manganese and microorganisms, enabling the water to be used for drinking.
Abstract:
A method for clarifying a fluid such as an exhaust gas or a wastewater, which comprises providing one or more static mixers in the passage route of the fluid, to mix and react the fluid with a clarifying agent such as ozone, thereby clarifying the fluid. The method allows the clarification of a fluid such as an exhaust gas or a wastewater with significantly good efficiency, and also allows the simplification of an apparatus for use in the clarification and the markedly reduction of the cost required for the clarification.