System and Method for Reducing the Dissolved Solids of a Non-Potable Aqueous Flow

    公开(公告)号:US20180186666A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-05

    申请号:US15861420

    申请日:2018-01-03

    Inventor: Jack C. Gardiner

    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a flow-electrode capacitive deionization (FCDI) desalination system and method of use. The system employs clusters of tubular membranes oriented parallel to each other, each membrane having an internal flow path capable of receiving an electrolyte slurry (carbon slurry) therethrough. Each tubular membrane further comprises an electrode coaxially extending through the entire length of the electrode. Preferably, adjacent electrodes within the cluster receive a positive or negative charge, respectively. The cluster of tubular membranes is nested within a flow chamber capable of receiving saline or brackish water to be flowed along the outside surfaces of the tubular membranes to cause selected ions, e.g., Na+, Cl— to pass through the membranes and into the carbon slurry circuit. The desalinated water then passes out of the flow chamber. The outer diameter of the electrodes can be optimized based on the inner diameter of the tubular membrane.

    System and Method for Purifying Water
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    公开(公告)号:US20180037484A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-02-08

    申请号:US15783557

    申请日:2017-10-13

    Abstract: A water purifying and recovery system includes a first vessel defining an interior area and having an inlet for receiving water into the interior area to be purified and an outlet for draining the water from the interior area, the first vessel defining an open top in communication with the interior area. A first electrode assembly includes a first cap selectively situated in the open top of the first vessel, the first electrode assembly having a first electrode body operatively depending from the first cap and positioned in the interior area of the first vessel, the first electrode assembly being electrically connected to an electricity source and configured to energize the first electrode body. The first electrode assembly is configured to separate a predetermined first impurity from the water that is in the interior area of the first vessel when energized.

    Apparatus for purifying a fluid and method for purifying a fluid, in particular by means of the aforesaid apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US09878927B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-01-30

    申请号:US14527805

    申请日:2014-10-30

    Inventor: Tullio Servida

    Abstract: Apparatus for purifying a fluid, which comprises at least one ion absorption cell (2) with an operating chamber (4, 5) at its interior through which a first operative fluid (F1) flows and an evacuation chamber (13, 13′) through which a second operative fluid (F2, F2′) flows and which is separated from the operating chamber (4,5) by a filtering membrane (100). A porous electrical conductor (18) is housed in the evacuation chamber (13, 13′) and is traversed by the second operative fluid (F2, F2′). Two electrodes (A, B) have the aforesaid operating chamber (4, 5) and evacuation chamber (13, 13′) interposed, and are supplied with opposite polarities in order to generate an operative electric field in the operating chamber (4, 5) and a limited electric field in the evacuation chamber (13, 13′), the latter with value lower than the operative electric field, due to the shielding effect of the porous electrical conductor (18). The charged particles contained in the operating chamber (4, 5) are susceptible of traversing the filtering membrane (100) under the action of the operative electric field generated by the electrodes (A, B), and be evacuated by the second operative fluid (F2, F2′) in the evacuation chamber (13, 13′), in which they are subjected to the action of the limited electric field.

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