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US 2006/0032803 A1Published application
Method and apparatus for purifying water
OwnerAlvin Costa, Richard Coffey +4inventors
InventorsAlvin Costa, Richard Coffey, Michael Pereira, Daniel Nelsen, Thomas Parent, Christopher Kampf
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for purifying water by dissolving one or more soluble metal salts in the water to provide corresponding metal ions, by dissolving hypohalite into the water, and by regulating the residence time, and thus hypohalite concentration in the device using a venturi nozzle disposed between the metal generator and the hypohalite generator.
Claims22
An apparatus for purifying water, comprising:
- an inlet and an outlet;
- a metal generator, having an inlet in fluid communication with the inlet of the device, and a first outlet and a second outlet, and adapted to provide concentrations of one or more metals to the water;
- a halogen generator, having an inlet in fluid communication with the first outlet of the metal generator, and having an outlet, and adapted to provide concentrations of halogen to the water;
- a venturi nozzle, having an inlet in fluid communication with the second outlet of the metal generator, which is in fluid communication with outlet of the halogen generator, and having an outlet in fluid communication with the outlet of the device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.