Methods of treatment of ground water
OwnerG. Robert Whitemaninventor
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Abstract
The present invention relates to apparatus, methods, and applications for treating wastewater, and more particularly to biological processes for removing pollutants from wastewater. This invention further relates to apparatus and methods for growing microbes on-site at a wastewater treatment facility, and for economically inoculating sufficient microbes to solve various treatment problems rapidly
Claims31
1-52. (canceled)
A method of reducing contaminants in a contaminated ground water, the method being performed on-site at the contaminated ground water location and comprising the steps of:
- providing an on-site system for growing of microbes at the contaminated ground water location, the on-site system comprising:
- a main tank, an input for water, an output for a treatment batch, a mixing apparatus, and a temperature control apparatus;
- depositing nutrient, water and an inoculum comprising microbes into the on-site system;
- growing the inoculum in the on-site system to provide a treatment batch comprising an increased number of the microbes;
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- directly applying at least a portion of the treatment batch, said portion containing microbes, to the contaminated ground water, such that the microbes are not isolated, concentrated or freeze dried between the steps of growing and applying, and wherein the microbes reduce contaminants in the contaminated ground water.
54-95. (canceled)
A method of reducing contaminants in a contaminated ground water, the method being performed on-site at the contaminated ground water location and comprising the steps of:
- providing an on-site system for growing of microbes at the ground water location, the on-site system comprising:
- a main tank, an input for water, an output for a treatment batch, a mixing apparatus, and a temperature control apparatus;
- depositing nutrient, water and an inoculum comprising microbes in a concentration of 103 cfu/ml to 108 cfu/ml into a on-site system;
- growing, heating, mixing and aerating the inoculum in the on-site system to provide a treatment batch comprising the microbes in a concentration of 106 cfu/ml to 1010 cfu/ml;
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- applying at least a portion of the treatment batch, said portion containing microbes, to the contaminated ground water to provide a microbe concentration in the ground water of at least 103 cfu/ml, wherein the microbes are not isolated, concentrated or freeze dried between the step of growing, heating, mixing and aerating and the step of applying, and wherein the microbes reduce the contaminants in the contaminated ground water.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.