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US 2022/0135436 A1Published application
Process for decontaminating water and generating water vapor
AssigneeVerno Holdings, LLC
InventorsJohn D. Riley, Dana L. Johnson, Harry Patrick Barnum
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Abstract
A process for decontaminating a fluid and recovered vapor, particularly processing and recycling contaminated water, utilizing a vaporizer-desalination unit to separate a contaminated water flow into a contaminated disposal flow and a clean water vapor flow. The contaminated disposal flow may be dried and separated into recovered minerals utilizing heat from the clean water vapor flow to dry the contaminated disposal flow.
Claims9
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A process for decontaminating a wastewater source, comprising the steps of:
- screen filtering the wastewater source producing a filtered wastewater flow;
- separating the filtered wastewater flow into a heavy fraction, a light fraction, and an intermediate fraction in a density separation tank;
- processing the intermediate fraction through a decontamination unit, wherein the decontamination unit separates the intermediate fraction into a contaminant flow and a decontaminated vapor flow;
- drying the contaminant flow in a heat exchanger unit using heat from the decontaminated vapor flow;
- condensing the decontaminated vapor flow into purified water;
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- processing the dried contaminant flow to recover minerals therefrom.
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