Fluid treatment device
AssigneeNano-Porous Solutions Limited
InventorColin Thomas Billiet
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Abstract
A fluid treatment device is disclosed. The device includes a vessel having a fluid entrance and exit. Within the vessel hollow fiber of nano-porous material are arranged so as to define two volumes separated by the nano-porous material. In one embodiment the fluid, air, passes up the center of the hollow fiber drying as the air contacts the inner walls of the fiber. The device is purged by stopping the flow through the device and allowing the air pressure that builds up between the fibers to be released through the nano-porous material.
Claims14
A method of removing impurities from a fluid comprising the steps of:
- pumping at least one fluid into an inlet of a vessel and out of at least one outlet of said vessel, the vessel having at least one first and at least one second volume separated by at least one element formed of porous material adapted to adsorb at least one impurity from said fluid, wherein pumping fluid through said vessel increases the pressure of the fluid in the or each first and second volume;
- closing a valve adjacent said outlet thereby preventing said fluid flowing out of said outlet;
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- exposing said inlet to lower pressure thereby allowing fluid in said first and second volumes to pass through said inlet.
A fluid treatment device comprising:
- a vessel having at least one access for allowing a fluid to enter and leave said vessel;
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- at least one element having at least one aperture extending through said element wherein said element is formed from at least one porous material adapted to adsorb at least one impurity from said fluid.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.