US 11,052,429 B2Granted

Particle separation apparatus

AssigneeResearch Cooperation Foundation of Yeungnam University

InventorsJin Young Jung, Byeong Jun Lee

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Abstract

Disclosed herein is a particle separation apparatus. The particle separation apparatus includes: a bioreactor; a first flow path through which the sludge is discharged from the bioreactor; a first filter including a first mesh separating the granular microorganisms contained in the sludge according to size; a second flow path into which an effluent having passed through the first filter flows; a third flow path connected to the second flow path to discharge the effluent outside; a fourth flow path connected to one side of the second flow path and mounted on a surface of the first filter connected to a surface of the first filter with the second flow path mounted thereon; a fifth flow path through which the effluent having been discharged from the fourth flow path and passed through the first filter flows into the bioreactor; and a first pump creating a flow of the effluent.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A particle separation apparatus, comprising:

a bioreactor storing a sludge containing granular microorganisms;
a first flow path through which the sludge is discharged from the bioreactor;
a first filter comprising a first mesh separating the granular microorganisms contained in the sludge discharged through the first flow path according to size;
a second flow path into which an effluent having passed through the first filter flows;
a third flow path connected to the second flow path to discharge the effluent outside;
a fourth flow path connected to one side of the second flow path and mounted on a first portion of a surface of the first filter, the first portion being connected to a second portion of the surface of the first filter on which the second flow path is mounted to circulate the effluent to the bioreactor;
a fifth flow path through which the effluent having been discharged from the fourth flow path and passed through the first filter flows into the bioreactor;
and
a first pump creating a flow of the effluent,
wherein the first mesh unit is rotatably mounted on the first filter.

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Facts

Application: 16/089,298Filed 17 Jul 2017
Priority: KR 10-2016-011741412 Sep 2016
Published: US 2020/0298279 A124 Sep 2020
Granted: 6 Jul 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification16 codes

B07B 1/46
Sieving, screening, sifting, or sorting solid materials using networks, gratings, grids, or the like: constructional details of screens in…
B07B 1/522
With brushes or scrapers: with brushes
B07B 1/52
Cleaning: with brushes or scrapers
B07B 13/04
Grading or sorting solid materials by dry methods, not otherwise provided for; Sorting articles otherwise than by indirectly controlled devices:…