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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120031844 | FLOW-SWITCH-CONTROLLED, ZERO WASTE REVERSE OSMOSIS WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM A flow-switch controlled, zero waste reverse osmosis water treatment system having a first conduit for providing a supply of water, a second conduit having an inlet in fluid communication with the first conduit for selectively receiving a flow of water from the first co... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120012539 | WATER TREATMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR USING SAME A water treatment apparatus with a first filtration system and a second filtration system is disclosed. The first filtration system provides purified water to an automated assay device. The second filtration system receives wastewater from an outlet and removes contamin... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120012535 | OIL SKIMMER CONVEYOR An oil skimmer conveyor includes an inclined frame attached to a boat or other structure. Upper and lower rollers are connected to the frame, and a continuous belt is supported by the rollers. The lower roller extends into the water, and is at least partially submerged ... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120006732 | MODULAR DUAL VESSEL DISSOLVED AERATION FLOTATION TREATMENT SYSTEM A modular dual vessel DAF includes a frame, adjacent treatment sections mounted to the frame and including a multi-stage flocculator, aeration injector and mix chamber, stilling well, separation tank, effluent weir having an enclosed peaked upper portion and bottom inle... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110278221 | INSTALLATION FOR THE TREATMENT OF UREA-CONTAINING WATER, TOILET, STABLE, AND METHOD The invention relates to a device for treating urea-containing water. The invention also relates to a domestic toilet provided with such a device. The invention also relates to an animal accommodation provided with such a device. In addition, the invention comprises a m... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110174693 | METHOD FOR SEPARATING OIL FROM WATER BY INJECTING SIMULTANEOUSLY A LIQUIFIED GAS INTO THE GRAVITY SEPARATION DEVICE The invention provides a method of phase separation of a hydrocarbon containing mixed phase fluid composition into at least two separted fluid phases which method comprises introducing (8) a hydrocarbon-containing composition into a phase separator (1) and... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110089013 | Apparatus of produced water treatment, system and method of using the apparatus, and method of water reuse by using the same An apparatus of produced water treatment, to be adopted in an in-situ recovery method of producing bitumen from oil sand, the apparatus capable of removing the oil from produced water, the produced water of being left by separating the bitumen from bitumen-mixed fluid h... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110062080 | BIO-DENITRIFICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MAKING AND USING SAME A denitrification system is disclosed, where a plurality of biological regenerated adsorptive cells or units. Each cell includes a counterflowing absorptive media and waste water to achieve a two or three zone biomass nitrate/nitrite degradation environment. The system ... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110062070 | APPARATUS FOR TREATING WASTEWATER, PARTICULARLY WASTEWATER ORIGINATING FROM A PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS An apparatus for the treatment of wastewater, particularly wastewater originating from a process for the production of photovoltaic cells, comprising:
| 03/17/2011 |
| 20110036787 | PARTICLE SEPARATION Apparatus for increasing a concentration of large particles in a mixture which includes the large particles and smaller particles, including a flow chamber, a filtrate accepting chamber, a filtering component separating the flow chamber from the filtrate accepting chamb... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110017671 | WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD A water treatment apparatus and system, comprising a treatment tank with a plurality of flow-through containers filled with iron shavings. The water is recirculated through the containers of iron shavings in series to treat contaminants, including but not limited to hex... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110000836 | Efficient arrangement of membrane bioreactors Flat-sheet membrane filter assemblies require open space around equipment to form a viable path for an internal recycle or roll pattern. Creating a dedicated roll pattern for individual filter assemblies is space intensive and imposes process constraints on tank dimensi... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100320128 | Portable Water Purifiers and Methods of Purifying A portable water purifier for purifying a liquid to a safe form acceptable for drinking may be provided. The portable water purifier may include a container configured to hold the liquid, a filtering mechanism connected to the container configured to filter out dirt or ... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100256350 | MICROFLUIDIC APPARATUS FOR SEPARATING TARGET SUBSTANCE AND METHOD OF PURIFYING THE TARGET SUBSTANCE FROM SAMPLE A microfluidic apparatus includes a filter unit including an entrance, a separation portion in which eluant contacts microparticles to separate a target substance bound to surfaces of the microparticles from the microparticles, an exit, and a filter blocking leakage of ... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100237021 | RECIRCULATION SHOWER FOR AIRCRAFT A system is provided for water purification for a recirculation shower in a transport with a filtration unit, a first backwash line and a second backwash line. The filtration unit is designed to filter used shower water. The first backwash line and the second backwash l... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100224575 | Device and Method for Processing Cleaning Fluids An improved device and a method for processing cleaning fluids, with the device including at least one flushable coarse filter for coarsely filtering the cleaning fluid, a cross-flow filter for finely filtering the coarse filtrate from the at least one coarse filter, a ... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100219372 | BRINE PURIFICATION Process and apparatus for reducing organic content of brine comprising subjecting a brine solution to at least two purification treatments selected from electrochemical treatment, chlorinolysis, or other chemical oxidation treatment, carbon adsorption, extraction, biolo... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100200487 | SYSTEM FOR WATER TREATMENT A system for treating feedwater to remove contaminants therefrom, the system comprising at least one high shear mixing device comprising at least one generator comprising a rotor and a stator separated by a shear gap, wherein the shear gap is the minimum distance betwee... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100187190 | CROSS-FLOW FILTRATION SYSTEM An apparatus and method for filtering working fluid in an appliance with a cross-flow filter located within a recirculation circuit.... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100163498 | Skim Tank Configurations And Methods A skim tank includes a flow-control structure that forces a solid-depleted phase of a mixed-phase feed into a toroidal motion within the container to thereby provide an up-flow movement within the structure. Most preferably, at least a portion of the solid-depleted phas... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100155329 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FORWARD OSMOSIS FLUID PURIFICATION A process for purification of fluids, for example, desalination of seawater or brackish water, using organic solutes in a concentrated water solution for use in a forward osmosis process, to extract fresh water out of salt water through the forward osmosis membrane, and... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100147781 | APPARATUS FOR EXTRACTING MATERIAL FROM LIQUID AND METHODS THEREFOR Apparatus for extracting a material from a body of liquid and methods therefore are disclosed. A transport member comprises at least one continuous loop configured to pass through a continuous orbit. The material sufficiently adheres to at least a portion of the at leas... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100072121 | IMPROVED STATIC FLUID SEPARATOR DEVICE A fluid separator includes a casing and a tubular main body disposed in the casing and having a central axis, inlet and outlet ends spaced along the axis, inner and outer circumferential surfaces; and drain passage(s) extending radially between the inner and outer surfa... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100065514 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE SOLID-LIQUID-SEPARATION OF MATERIAL MIXTURES AND SUSPENSIONS Method for the liquid solid separation of material mixtures and suspensions in which the material mixture under pressure is fed into a closed chamber having at least one filter surface and a hydrostatic pressure is generated within said chamber for separating the liquid... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100051524 | FLUID TANK WITH KIDNEY-LOOP FILTRATION SYSTEM A return flow filtration assembly for filtering return hydraulic fluid is provided. The filtration assembly includes a first return fluid chamber including a first inlet and first and second of outlets. The second outlet is configured to be coupled to a secondary return... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100044307 | PROCESS AND INSTALLATION FOR ANAEROBIC TREATMENT OF MATERIAL HAVING HIGH SOLIDS CONCENTRATION The invention relates to a process for anaerobic treatment of material having a solids concentration greater than 15% in a digester in the form of a sealed tank (1) equipped with means (2) for supplying material to be treated and means (3) for disch... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20090272681 | RECYCLE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM FOR CAR WASH The present invention relates to a recycle water treatment system for car wash comprising principally a flocculating sedimentation tank, a flotation tank, a tank of aerobic biofilter, a secondary sedimentation tank and a storage tank that are connected in sequence, wher... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090249964 | APPARATUS FOR INJECTING LIQUID INTO FOOD OBJECTS The present invention discloses an apparatus for injecting liquid into food objects, the apparatus is comprised of a frame, an endless belt, and means for propelling the endless belt to convey the food objects. One or more needles with a passage for penetrating said foo... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090236288 | METHOD FOR SEPARATING MULTIVALENT METAL IONS A method and apparatus are described for removing iron cations and/or zinc cations from an autodeposition coating bath by passing a limited number of bed volumes through a column containing a gel type SAC IEX resin when iron cations are to be removed and passing a subst... | 09/24/2009 |
| 20090188849 | COOLANT RECYCLING SYSTEM A coolant recycling system is disclosed, including a chiller and a coolant filtering unit. The chiller includes a coolant tank, a compressor, a condenser and an expansion valve. The coolant tank includes an evaporator, a coolant outlet and an coolant inlet. The evaporat... | 07/30/2009 |
| 20090114595 | System and Method for Regeneration of a Fluid A system comprising a blood circuit including a membrane arranged in a blood filter (7) in which blood is in contact with a first side of said membrane; and a dialysis circuit in which a dialysis fluid is in contact with the other side of the membrane for exchang... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090107901 | Combined Centrifugal Separator The combined centrifugal separator with supplementary work units is an autonomous stationary or mobile complex apparatus, which is related to the separation of non-uniform granular or fibrous product, such as manure pulps, fruit pulps, sugar contained pulps, pulps for t... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090107902 | PERSONAL HEMODIALYSIS SYSTEM A dialysis machine includes a dialysis instrument having a pump actuator and first and second valve actuators, and a disposable cassette operable with the dialysis instrument, the disposable cassette including a pump portion operable with the pump actuator, first and se... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090095683 | PORTABLE FUEL DESULTURIZATION UNIT A mobile fuel filter for removing sulfur-containing compounds from a diesel fuel is provided. The mobile fuel filter comprises: a filter median comprising an absorbent for removing sulfur-containing compounds from the diesel fuel, the filter median being in fluid commun... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090020482 | Method and Device for Removing Contaminant Trace Species, Especially Arsenic, from Water A method and a device for purifying water from contaminant trace species, especially arsenic, by co-precipitating trace species during oxidation and precipitation of iron compounds with subsequent separation. The co-precipitation is improved by contacting the water with... | 01/22/2009 |
| 20080318324 | Biochip for High-Throughput Screening of Circulating Tumor Cells Embodiments in accordance with the present invention relate to the use of effusive filtration to segregate tumor cells from a sample of bodily fluid. In one embodiment, fluid containing a cell is flowed down a channel having a filtration medium present along at least on... | 12/25/2008 |
| 20080296237 | FLUID PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHODS A fluid processing apparatus and method are provided for filtering a fluid from a source and delivering a filtrate derived therefrom to a first destination, and delivering a decantate derived therefrom to a second destination. The fluid separation and delivery apparatus... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080257826 | Fluidized Bed Wastewater Treatment A fluidized bed reactor (14) for removing phosphorus and nitrogen from wastewater has a column comprising a number of sections. (15A, 15B, 15C, 15D) The diameter of the column changes stepwise between the sections. A flow velocity in e... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080237110 | MEMBRANE CASCADE-BASED SEPARATION The present invention provides counter flow cascade separation systems useful to separate solute/solute pairs present in a solvent. The separation systems include a series of interconnected stages with each stage comprising a diafilter preferentially permeable for one s... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080173582 | Process and apparatus for reuse of liquid effluents generated in the textile finishing, laundering, dyeing and stamping process New industrial, commercial and/or household process and the apparatus to carry out that process. Used in water recycling and reuse treatments applied to laundering, dyeing and stamping processes in general, mainly in the textile segment. Today, residues generated by ind... | 07/24/2008 |
