Method and apparatus for the treatment of water with a gas or nutrient infused liquid
OwnerDennis Lapin, Brad McMaheninventors
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for the treatment of water with a gas or nutrient infused liquid. One embodiment delivers an oxidized water supply to a wastewater digester medium by means of pure oxygen introduced to the water supply via a pressure vessel or other means to infuse the liquid. This oxygen infused liquid is delivered to the medium to be treated at a critically controlled depth via a surface float delivery system. The invention involves delivering the oxygen infused liquid via nozzles which are located strategically in the supernatant allowing an extended oxygen-water interface time without over oxidizing the sludge blanket below.
Claims10
A method for the treatment of a body of water, the method comprising:
- providing an oxygen infused liquid by infusing oxygen into a liquid supply discrete from the body of water being treated;
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- delivering the oxygen infused liquid into the body of water being treated at a rate that does not disturb settling of suspended solids in the body of water and at a controlled depth irrespective of fluctuations in the water level.
An apparatus for the delivery of a gas-infused liquid into a wastewater digester comprising:
- a source of gas-infused liquid discrete from the wastewater digester;
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- surface float means to deliver the gas-infused liquid from said source to the wastewater digester medium at a controlled depth and at a rate that does not disturb settling of suspended solids in the wastewater digester medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.