Floating water treatment device
AssigneeJ.P. AquaKnit Ltd
InventorsJonah GAVRIELI, Pinhas Hascalovici, Emil Hascalovici
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Abstract
A floating water treatment device for biological treatment of water in a body of water, the device comprising: a submerged biomass-carrying system having at least one biomass-carrying element; a water aeration device adapted to aerate the water in the body of water in the vicinity of the biomass-carrying system; and at least one flotation system, having at least one floating element, the at least one flotation system adapted to float on the surface of the body of water and to support the submerged biomass-carrying system and water aeration device from totally submerging into the body of water.
Claims20
A floating water treatment device for biological treatment of water in a body of water, the device comprising:
- a submerged biomass-carrying system having at least one biomass-carrying element;
- a water aeration device adapted to aerate the water in the body of water in the vicinity of the biomass-carrying system;
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- at least one flotation system, having at least one floating element, the at least one flotation system adapted to float on the surface of the body of water and to support the submerged biomass-carrying system and water aeration device from totally submerging into the body of water.
The floating water treatment device of claim 6, wherein at least one of the biomass-carrying elements has a corrugated sheet structure.
A method of using a floating device for biological treatment of a water body comprising the steps of:
- deploying a submerged biomass-carrying system having at least one biomass-carrying element;
- utilizing a water agitation device to agitate the water in the water body in the vicinity of the biomass-carrying system;
- floating at least one flotation system, having at least one floating element, on the surface of the body of water and supporting the submerged biomass-carrying system and water aeration device from totally submerging into the body of water.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.