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US 5,059,317 AGranted
Transportable apparatus for producing drinking water
OwnerDietrich Marius, Erich Mueller +4inventors
InventorsDietrich Marius, Erich Mueller, Christian Atzmueller, Walter Doubrawa, Helmut Irauscheck, Werner Meierhofer
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Abstract
An installation for filtering drinking water out of contaminated water, which can be used in many different situations, as it consists of a hydrocyclone, a micro filter unit, a unit for reverse osmosis, a mixed bed ion exchange, a re-salting unit, a unit for ozonization, an activated carbon filter and a unit for chlorinization.
Claims12
An apparatus for obtaining drinking water out of contaminated water comprising:
- means for filtering the water;
- means for ozonizing the water;
- a micro filter device comprising at least two back-flushable membranes with a nominal pore size at least as small as approximately 0.2 .mu.m;
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- means for back-flushing the membranes of the micro filter device.
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An apparatus for obtaining drinking water out of contaminated water comprising:
- means for separating suspended particles from the water, the means for separating suspended particles from the water comprising a hydrocyclone device;
- a micro filter device comprising at least two back-flushable membranes with a nominal pore size at least as small as approximately 0.2 .mu.m;
- means for back-flushing the membranes of the micro filter device;
- means for carrying out reverse osmosis on the water after the water has been treated by the micro filter device;
- mixed bed ion exchange means;
- re-salting means, said mixed bed ion exchange means and re-salting means being installed immediately after the means for performing reverse osmosis;
- means for ozonizing the water;
- means for subjecting the water to filtering by activated carbon;
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- means for adding measured amounts of chlorine to the water.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.