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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120125858 | METHOD FOR SEPARATING MAGNETISABLE PARTICLES FROM A SUSPENSION AND ASSOCIATED DEVICE In a method for separating magnetizable particles from a suspension, the suspension is passed through a cylinder-symmetrical separator wherein the substance streams are separated by at least one tubular separation screen. The separator separates the substance stream int... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120125860 | WASTE SLUDGE DEWATERING Technologies are generally described for processes, compositions and systems for waste sludge dewatering. In an example, the process may include receiving a waste sludge including a water component and an initial content of suspended particulates. The process may includ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120125840 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANAEROBIC DIGESTION OF BIOMATERIALS Systems and methods for performing anaerobic digestion of biomaterials using a clarifier, a batch reactor, and/or a digester are disclosed. The clarifier performs pretreatment processing of biomaterial to improve anaerobic digestion. The batch reactor and/or the digeste... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120103898 | Device And Method For Drinking Water Purification The invention relates to a device (2) for drinking water purification, having a water tank (4) for receiving the drinking water (6) to be purified, a pump (8) for transporting the water, and a membrane filter unit (10) which comprises ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120053278 | Process for the Anti-Sticking Treatment of Polymer Pellets A process for the anti-sticking treatment of polymer pellets comprising: a) pelletizing the polymer in the presence of cooling water; | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120043264 | FLOCCULATION-MAGNETIC SEPARATION SYSTEM A flocculation-magnetic separation is provided which reduces the usage amount of flocculation agents as well as the usage amount of magnetic powders and realizes an improvement in the quality of treated water. In a flocculation-magnetic sep... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120037570 | Tank Overflow Dechlorinating Assembly and Method A water tank overflow dechlorinating assembly is used with a water tank including an overflow pipe with exit above an overflow discharge region with an air gap between the two. The assembly includes a dechlorinating material delivery assembly comprising a guide tube hav... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120037550 | HEMODIALYSIS SYSTEM WITH CASSETTE AND PINCH CLAMP A hemodialysis system includes (i) blood tubing; (ii) a peristaltic blood pump contacting the blood tubing to pump blood through the blood tubing; (iii) a dialyzer in fluid communication with the blood tubing; (iv) first and second peristaltic dialysate pumps; (v) a dia... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120031837 | WASTEWATER TREATMENT A system and method for treating wastewater by continuously flowing wastewater into a chemostat and continuously discharging clean water out of the chemostat. The system can include sensors and an electronic controller for on-line measuring ambient parameters in the che... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120024781 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING ORGANIC MATERIAL The present application relates to systems and methods for processing organic materials. The method may, for example, yield nutrient-rich materials that may have various agricultural uses. The method can include, in some embodiments, forming a slurry from components com... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20110315641 | CONTROLLER FOR AN ACOUSTIC STANDING WAVE GENERATION DEVICE IN ORDER TO PREVENT CLOGGING OF A FILTER The invention relates to a method and apparatus to continuously monitor and control acoustic energy and vacuum pressure to maintain a net unidirectional flow of multi-phase heterogeneous fluids through a porous filter or membrane. The heterogenous fluid may come form a ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110308395 | Run-Safe Filter System A run-safe filter system is provided for confirming installation of a qualified filter element in a housing. An electrical switch has a first electrical condition in response to a qualified filter element being installed in the housing, and a second electrical condition... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110303593 | Fitting Element with Grip Force Distributor A fitting element, in particular for an HPLC application, is configured for providing a fluidic coupling of a tubing to a fluidic device. The fitting element includes a gripping piece configured to exert, upon coupling of the tubing to the fluidic device, a grip force b... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110284436 | WATER PURIFYING APPARATUS A water purifying apparatus, comprises: a filtering unit for filtering water supplied from a wellhead into purified water; a water tank unit including a cold water tank for storing the purified water in a cold water state, and a hot water tank for storing the purified w... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110284434 | WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM A water treatment system including a pair of water treatment tanks, each tank defining a flow path extending from a tank inlet to a tank outlet and containing a water treatment material disposed along the flow path for treating water as it travels from the inlet to the ... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110272356 | SEPARATION DEVICE HAVING COUPLED SEPARATION DEVICE ELEMENTS A separation device has a first separation chamber for housing a packing material representing a stationary phase configured for separating compounds of a fluid sample. The separation device comprises a first separation device element and a second separation device elem... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110275973 | HIV FILTRATION MACHINE AND METHOD OF FILTERING HIV USING THE MACHINE AND METHOD OF DETECTING HIV VIRUS DURING FILTRATION A HIV filtration machine and method of filtration using the machine and method of detecting HIV, the said machine comprising an acrylic cylindrical tube divided into three portions i.e. needle portion (2), barrel portion (10), and tray (16), charact... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110264268 | Electrochemical Control Systems And Methods Methods for reducing response time of membrane based electrochemical cells. A probe correction factor is calculated based on a percent rate of change in probe signal with time. A staged correction may be applied such that as signal change gets smaller, the effect of the... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110220572 | FILTERING SYSTEM AND METHOD Disclosed is a filtering system and method which facilitates to maximize cleaning efficiency, minimize heat energy consumption for cleaning, and shorten cleaning time by a concentrated heating only in a filtering membrane for a maintenance cleaning or recovery cleaning,... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110192807 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR TREATING CONTAMINANTS IN A WASTE FLUID The invention relates to a method, apparatus and system for the treatment of organic and inorganic waste in a waste fluid. The method involves a co-current plug flow of fluid in a reactor in which ozone mass transfer conforms to the effective life of the ozone used in t... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110186529 | SOLAR-POWERED WATER PURIFICATION SYSTEM A water purification apparatus enables water purification in the field. An illustrative water purification apparatus can comprise at least one water purification filter and a solar-powered pump configured to pump source water through the at least one water purification ... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110186517 | Dialysis machine, in particular peritoneal dialysis machine The present invention relates to a dialysis machine, in particular a peritoneal dialysis machine, to which a fluid system having a multi-chamber container with at least two chambers with individual solutions separated by a partition arrangement to be opened mechanically... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110180480 | REVERSE-OSMOSIS SYSTEM WITH AN APPARATUS FOR REDUCING NOISE AND METHOD FOR REDUCING NOISE IN A REVERSE-OSMOSIS SYSTEM The present invention relates to a reverse osmosis system having an apparatus for noise cancellation of the reverse osmosis system, wherein the apparatus has at least one sensor for the detection of at least one noise emitted by the reverse osmosis system; at least one ... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110174730 | ALGAL PURIFICATION SYSTEM WITH EFFICIENT SOLAR LIGHT UTILIZATION The present invention relates to an algal purification system. In particular, the present invention relates to a biological purification system incorporating light-converting materials and sun trackers to enhance photosynthesis of algae therein in order to treat wastewa... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110168642 | DYNAMO POWERED ULTRAVIOLET WATER PURIFICATION SYSTEM A system and method for powering an ultraviolet (UV) water purification system utilizing a dynamo. A dynamo, operably attached to the UV water purification system, generates power from a rotatable crank which is actuated by a user around an axis of the rotatable crank. ... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110168617 | ADVANCED WASTEWATER TREATMENT DEVICE HAVING MOVABLE DIVIDERS Disclosed herein is an advanced wastewater treatment device. The device includes a wastewater treatment bath having an anaerobic bath in which phosphorus is discharged, an anoxic bath in which denitrification of nitrate nitrogen is performed, and an aerobic bath in whic... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110163034 | METHOD AND DEVICE TO EARLY PREDICT THE Kt/V PARAMETER IN KIDNEY SUBSTITUTION TREATMENTS A method for determining or predicting the adequacy parameters that will be achieved at the end of a kidney substitution treatment during said kidney substitution treatment wherein the kidney substitution treatment is provided by a machine, which has an extracorporeal b... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110139720 | INTERRUPTION OF MEASURED VARIABLE ANALYSES IN AN AUTOMATIC WATER SOFTENING SYSTEM WHEN DEFINED OPERATING SITUATIONS ARE PRESENT A method for operating a water softening system (1) comprising
| 06/16/2011 |
| 20110132841 | DIALYSIS SYSTEM INCLUDING MULTI-HEATER POWER COORDINATION A dialysis system includes a first fluid heater, a second fluid heater, a supplemental power source and a logic implementer. The logic implementer is configured to use the supplemental power source such that when the first and second heaters are powered simultaneously, ... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110132836 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NUTRIENT REMOVAL IN BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT SYSTEMS The present invention relates to systems and processes of wastewater treatment and, in particular, to systems and methods of treating wastewater utilizing biological treatments utilizing two mixed liquor recycle streams for nutrient removal.... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110120956 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TREATING BALLAST WATER Ballast and/or cooling water biocidal treatment and disinfection systems and techniques are provided. The systems utilize oxidation reduction potential control to regulate addition, or concentration of an electrocatalytically generated biocidal agent to disinfection lev... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110114546 | Water Container Having Germicidal Water Purification Unit A water container having a germicidal water purification unit. Water stored in a reservoir passes through a conduit that extends through an array of light sources that operate in at least one of the visible light frequency range and the ultraviolet frequency range to pu... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110100921 | Device for Separating Particles in and from Liquids and Use of Said Device in Biotechnology, Biological Research, Diagnostics and the Treatment of Diseases The separation of particles in or from liquids is a necessary method in many procedures in biotechnology, biological research, diagnostic, and treatment of diseases. Commonly, methods are used which are based on differences in density (sedimentation) or size (filtration... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110062063 | POWER RECOVERY APPARATUS According to one embodiment, a power recovery apparatus used in a desalination apparatus including a reverse osmosis membrane which extracts fresh water from seawater and ejects concentrated water includes a pressure conversion section and a seawater supply section to c... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110062060 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A FLUID FILTRATION APPARATUS AND FILTER A system allowing the wireless transfer of data between a fluid filtering apparatus having a controller and a filter when the filter is positioned within the fluid filtering apparatus is described. The system includes a reader circuit and tag circuit in which the tag ci... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110042280 | Bag Path Fluid Filter Assembly A fluid filter assembly including a flexible and formable enclosure so as to be useable in many filter applications. The enclosure defines a portion of a fluid flow path residing entirely within the filter assembly, eliminating any fluid contact within the remaining por... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110036785 | WASTE SOLID CLEANING APPARATUS There is herein described the removal of fluid from fluid-contaminated waste solids and a method and apparatus for analysing and detecting the amount of oil in a fluid-contaminated waste material. In particular, there is described the removal of oil from drill cuttings ... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110030951 | INTEGRATED FLUID FILTRATION AND RECIRCULATION SYSTEM AND METHOD An integrated fluid filtration and recirculation system and method are provided for re-circulating and filtering fluid that is used in well cleaning operations. The system is incorporated within an enclosure, which is transportable, such as on a vehicle trailer. The sys... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110017664 | SUSPENDED MEDIA MEMBRANE BIOLOGICAL REACTOR SYSTEM AND PROCESS INCLUDING SUSPENSION SYSTEM AND MULTIPLE BIOLOGICAL REACTOR ZONES A wastewater treatment system is provided comprising a biological reactor having a separation subsystem, a suspension system and a membrane operating system. The separation subsystem is constructed and arranged to maintain adsorbent material in the biological reactor wi... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110006018 | HIGH VISCOSITY FLUID FILTERING SYSTEM There is provided herein a system for filtering oils and/or emulsions including one or more filtering devices comprising stacked filtering elements configured to filter oils and/or emulsions, one or more tanks configured to hold oils and/or emulsions, and one or more pu... | 01/13/2011 |
