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US 2016/0101995 A1Published application
Water recovery system, assembly and method for use of retentate recovered from membrane-based filtration devices
AssigneeStaubach Barror Water Systems, Inc.
InventorsJarrod J. Staubach, Christopher R. Barror, Joseph Sala
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Abstract
A water recovery system, in an embodiment, has at least one container fluidly connectable to a membrane-based filtration device. The water recovery system collects retentate or reject water from the membrane-based filtration device. In operation, the water recover system supplies the collected retentate or reject water to other apparatuses that have functions other than membrane-based water filtration.
Claims20
A water recovery system comprising:
- at least one tank;
- at least one inflow port fluidly connected to the at least one tank, the at least one inflow port configured to be fluidly connected to a reject water conduit of a reverse osmosis device operable in accordance with a reverse osmosis filtration process, the reverse osmosis device configured to output:
- (a) product water through a product water conduit of the reverse osmosis device;
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- (b) reject water through the reject water conduit;
- at least one pump;
- at least one outflow port fluidly connected to the at least one tank, the at least one outflow port configured to fluidly connect the at least one tank to an apparatus other than the reverse osmosis device;
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- at least one controller operable to control the pump to move the reject water from the at least one tank, through the at least one outflow port, to the apparatus,
- wherein the apparatus is operable with the reject water, and
- wherein the water recovery system facilitates usefulness of the reject water for one or more processes of the apparatus other than the reverse osmosis filtration process.
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A water recovery system comprising:
- at least one container;
- at least one inflow port fluidly connected to the at least one container, the at least one inflow port configured to receive retentate from a retentate line of a membrane-based filtration device;
- at least one outflow port configured to fluidly connect the at least one container to an apparatus other than the membrane-based filtration device, wherein the apparatus has a function other than membrane-based water filtration;
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- at least one pump operable to move the retentate from the at least one container, through the outflow port, to the apparatus,
- wherein the apparatus is operable with the retentate to perform the function.
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A method for utilizing retentate from a membrane-based filtration device, the method comprising:
- (a) providing at least one container comprising at least one inflow port and at least one outflow port;
- (b) fluidly connecting the at least one inflow port to a retentate conduit of a membrane-based filtration device;
- (c) as a result of an operation of the membrane-based filtration device, collecting retentate from the membrane-based filtration device, wherein the retentate flows through the retentate conduit, through the at least one inflow port and into the at least one container;
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- (d) pumping retentate from the at least one container, through the at least one outflow port and to an apparatus other than the membrane-based filtration device,
- wherein the apparatus has a function other than reverse osmosis filtration;
- and
- wherein the apparatus is operable with the retentate to perform the function.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.