Water treatment system
AssigneeEvoqua Water Technologies LLC
InventorScott Branum
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Abstract
A method for providing treated water comprises introducing water to be treated into a water treatment system, treating the water to be treated in the water treatment system to produce a treated water, measuring a quality parameter of the treated water, and determining an amount of contaminant removed from the water to be treated over a predetermined period of time from a totalized flow of the treated water and an average difference in the quality parameter between the treated water and the water to be treated over the predetermined period of time.
Claims31
A method for providing treated water, the method comprising:
- introducing water to be treated into a water treatment system;
- treating the water to be treated in the water treatment system to produce a treated water;
- measuring a quality parameter of the treated water;
- and
- determining an amount of contaminant removed from the water to be treated over a predetermined period of time from a totalized flow of the treated water and an average difference in the quality parameter between the treated water and the water to be treated over the predetermined period of time.
A water treatment system comprising:
- at least one water treatment unit;
- a flow rate sensor disposed one of fluidically upstream or downstream of the at least one water treatment unit and configured to measure a flow rate of water to be treated that is introduced into the at least one water treatment unit to produce a treated water;
- a first water quality sensor disposed upstream of the at least one water treatment unit and configured to measure a quality parameter of the water to be treated that is introduced into the at least one water treatment unit;
- a second water quality sensor disposed downstream of the at least one water treatment unit and configured to measure a quality parameter of the treated water exiting the at least one water treatment unit;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- receive an indication of flow rate of the water to be treated from the flow rate sensor;
- and
- calculate an amount of contaminant removed from the water to be treated over a predetermined period of time from a totalized flow of the treated water and an average difference in the quality parameter between the treated water and the water to be treated over the predetermined period of time.
A water treatment system comprising:
- at least one water treatment unit having an input and an output;
- a recirculation line fluidically connecting the input of the at least one water treatment unit to the output;
- a flow rate sensor disposed one of fluidically upstream or downstream of the at least one water treatment unit;
- a first water quality sensor disposed upstream of the at least one water treatment unit;
- a second water quality sensor disposed downstream of the at least one water treatment unit;
- and
- a controller including:
- inputs communicatively coupled to the flow rate sensor, the first water quality sensor, and the second water quality sensor;
- a processor;
- an output;
- a memory including instructions for execution by the processor;
- and
- a bus communicatively coupling the inputs, processor, output, and memory.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.