Systems and methods for managing filtration media beds in gas and liquid filtration apparatus

A system for operation of a gas or liquid phase filtration system comprising:

• a. an apparatus comprising:
• i. a gas or liquid phase entry location;
• ii. a gas or liquid phase travel path;
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• iii. a gas or liquid phase exit location;
• b. a housing;
• c. a media bed arrangement configured on an interior of the housing, comprising:
• i. at least three media bed zones arranged in series to define the gas or liquid phase travel path, wherein the at least three media bed zones comprise:
• 1. A first media bed zone at a forward location in the media bed arrangement and having a front location defining the gas or liquid phase entry location;
• 2. An interior media bed zone positioned between the first and a last media bed zone;
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• 3. The last media bed zone at a rearward location in the media bed arrangement and having a forward location proximate to a media bed zone that is not the first media bed zone and a rearward location defining the gas or liquid phase exit location;
• and wherein each of the at least three media bed zones is each, independently, configured with a media bed material selected to remove at least some of one or more target contaminates from a gas or liquid phase flowing through the gas or liquid phase travel path;
• d. at least one sensor or sensor arrangement positioned at a location exterior to the housing that is isolated from the gas or liquid phase travel path, wherein each sensor or sensor arrangement is configured to detect an amount of one or more target contaminates in a media bed zone during one or more times during a gas or liquid phase filtration operation, and wherein:
• i. each media bed zone is in independent fluid communication with a sensor or sensor arrangement via one or more sampling ports configured to remove a portion of a gas or fluid traveling in the media bed zone and to communicate the portion of the gas or fluid to the sensor or sensor arrangement;
• ii. each at least one sensor or sensor arrangement is configured to detect one or more signal changes associated with a presence or absence of the one or more target contaminates in each at least three media bed zones during the gas or liquid phase filtration operation independently of an amount of the one or more target contaminates present in another media bed zone while the gas or liquid phase is moving through the gas or liquid phase travel path;
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• iii. a detected amount for the one or more target contaminates is provided for each media bed zone independently of another media bed zone, thereby providing information associated with an amount of remaining life of each of the media bed material in each media bed zone;
• e. a microprocessor in communications engagement with the at least one sensor or sensor arrangement, wherein:
• i. the microprocessor is in network communication with a cloud computing system configured to:
• 1. Receive information generated from operation of the system during the gas or liquid phase filtration operation;
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• 2. Deploy information from a database of information derived from one or more previous gas or liquid phase filtration operations.