Water Treatment System and Method
AssigneeQwtip LLC
InventorWhitaker B. Irvin, SR.
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Abstract
The invention in at least one embodiment includes a system for treating water having an intake module, a vortex module, a disk-pack module, and a motor module. In a further embodiment, a housing is provided over at least the intake module and the vortex module and sits above the disk-pack module. In at least one further embodiment, the disk-pack module includes a disk-pack turbine having a plurality of disks having at least one waveform present on at least one of the disks.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a motor module having a base;
- a disk-pack module having
- a disk-pack turbine in rotational engagement with said motor module,
- a turbine housing defining an accumulation chamber in which said disk-pack turbine resides, and
- a discharge housing defining a discharge chamber in fluid communication with said accumulation chamber through a discharge channel and a discharge outlet in fluid communication with said discharge chamber;
- a vortex module, said vortex module includes
- a housing defining a vortex chamber with an outlet axially aligned and in fluid communication with said disk-pack turbine, and
- a plurality of inlets in fluid communication with said vortex chamber;
- a plurality of conduits extending down from said vortex module, each conduit includes a plurality of bends and is in fluid communication with one inlet of said vortex module;
- and
- an intake screen defining a space around said vortex module and said plurality of conduits or an intake screen over each conduit feeding said vortex module.
The system according to claim 9, wherein said supplemental inlet includes a valve and an inlet feed chamber such that a fluid pathway is capable of running from the inlet of said valve through the inlet feed chamber into at least one of the accumulation chamber and the discharge channel.
A disk-pack turbine comprising:
- a top rotor having an opening passing through its axial center,
- a plurality of disks each having an opening passing through its axial center and at least two waveforms centered about the opening,
- a bottom rotor, and
- a plurality of wing shims connecting said top rotor, said plurality of disks, and said bottom rotor.
A method comprising:
- drawing water into and up a plurality of conduits;
- forming a vortex flow of the water in a vortex chamber that receives the water from the plurality of conduits;
- discharging the water from the vortex chamber into an expansion chamber defined in a disk-pack turbine;
- channeling the water between spaces that exist between disks of the disk-pack turbine to travel from the expansion chamber to an accumulation chamber surrounding the disk-pack turbine;
- routing the water through the accumulation chamber to a discharge chamber;
- and
- forming a vortical flow of the water up through the discharge chamber back into an environment from which the water was drawn and a downward flow of solids to a discharge outlet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.