Texel LLC

Bernard Drouin

Richard Auger

A method for the treatment of a liquid in a reactor comprising a chamber having an upper portion and a lower portion, a liquid inlet located in the upper portion of the chamber, a liquid outlet located in the lower portion of the chamber and an absorbent bed within the chamber between the upper and lower portions thereof, said method comprising using as said absorbent bed a porous packing that is able to absorb by capillarity the liquid to be treated, said porous packing having a given capillarity height h.sub.s which is the height that the liquid to be treated reaches by capillarity action when it is fed in a column filled up with a continuous layer of said porous packing; mounting at least one horizontally extending separation member within the chamber so as to divide the absorbent bed into at least two superimposed layers of a given height that is equal to or lower than h.sub.s, said at least one separation member being selected so as to be permeable to the liquid to be treated and to cause at least one break in capillarity within the chamber; injecting at regular interval a given volume of said liquid to be treated within said chamber through said liquid inlet; and removing the treated liquid from the said chamber through said liquid outlet.

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Cap Rouge, Canada

Bernard Drouin