International Environmental Systems, Inc., USA

Globe Environmental Protection, Inc.

Int'l Environmental Systems, Inc.

International Environmental Systems, Inc.

Mu H Wang

Lawrence K Wang

Lubomyr Kurylko

Chong S Hwang

Harold Rhow

Lubomry Kurylko

A sequencing batch apparatus being manually or automatically operated for treating a contaminated water is described. The present invention specifically relates to the apparatus comprising an inlet pipe, a batch reactor, a chemical feeder means, at least one mixing means, a coarse bubble distribution means, a fine bubble distribution means, a liquid discharge means, and sludge discharge means for required liquid treatment, and further alternatively comprising a gas moving means, a gas pipe, a flow meter, an enclosure and a gas purification means for air emission control upon demand. The present invention further relates to an apparatus system comprising means for recovering precious metal, controlling optimum pH in an acid range, reducing hexavalent chromium to trivalent chromium, controlling optimum pH in a base range, oxidizing cyanide, destroying phosphite, separating flocs, exchanging metals, adsorbing contaminants, neutralizing an effluent, and controlling gas emission. The treated effluent can be safely discharged into a receiving water. The waste sludges, ashes and spent adsorbents containing metals, PCB, and other toxic organics are safely disposed of by cementation or solidification.

Sequencing batch liquid treatment

A high rate multi-stage bubble separation process is developed for: (a) initially generating coarse gas bubbles with diameters greater than 80 microns in turbulent hydraulic condition to mix an influent water with chemicals, enzymes, microorganisms, or combinations thereof, to produce chemical flocs, biological flocs or both, and to strip volatile contaminants from water; (b) subsequently terminating coarse gas bubbles and generating extremely fine gas bubbles with diameters smaller than 80 microns in laminar hydraulic condition to float suspended, oily and surface-active contaminants together with said chemical flocs and said biological flocs from water, to settle heavy contaminants from water, and to produce a clarified effluent water, a floating scum, and a sludge; (c) terminating the fine gas bubbles and discharging the clarified effluent water; (d) discharging the floating scum and the sludge upon demand; and (e) optionally collecting and treating an emitted gas stream resulting from said coarse gas bubbles and said fine gas bubbles.

Combined coarse and fine bubble separation system

A biological treatment system involving the use of a gas dissolving pressure vessel, a pressurized water release assembly, a pretreatment chamber, a bioreactor, an open vessel, a post-treatment unit, a sludge removal unit, and a removable gas collection and purification unit for both wastewater treatment and air emission control is described. Gases are dissolved efficiently in a water inside the pressure vessel under controlled high pressure and high rotating velocity. Chemicals, or microorganisms, or both arm dosed to an influent water producing a pretreated water containing chemical flocs and biological flocs. The bioreactor comprising a hanging biological contactor is adopted when biochemical reaction is intended. A pressurized water containing supersaturated gases is produced in the pressure vessel and than depressurized through the pressurized water release assembly becoming a depressurized water containing micro bubbles. The pretreated water containing chemical flocs or biological flocs, or both are gently mixed and held together with the depressurized water containing micro bubbles in the open vessel for separation of chemical/biological flocs to the water surface, producing a purified effluent and a waste gas. A portion of the purified effluent is recycled for gas dissolution and micro bubbles production. When necessary, the waste gas is collected, purified and recycled to the pressure vessel or the bioreactor, or both for reuse.

Water and wastewater treatment system

An improved filtration system involving the use of ultraviolet irradiation, ozonation, chlorination, reactive filtration media, chemical treatment, compressed air aeration, air emission control, and central flow control is described. The process system and apparatus of the present invention mainly include a liquid pump, an ultraviolet pretreatment means, a central flow control, an air emission control means, a reactive pressure filter, a process tank, at least one chemical feeder means, an ultraviolet post-treatment means, and an aeration means. The filter media are of reactive type, including diatomaceous earth, granular activated carbon, fibrous activated carbon, granular metal medium, greensand, neutralizing sand, silica sand, activated alumina, ion exchange resins, polymeric adsorbents, chemical treated adsorbents, manganese oxide, coal, porous plastic medium, porous stainless steel medium, porous ceramic medium, bacteriostatic filter medium, porous paper filter medium, porous carbon filter medium, coalescing filter medium, fiberglass filter medium, or combinations thereof. The process tank contains and handles regenerating chemicals, flocculating chemicals, filter aids, or recirculating water. The reactive filter media of this invention are regenerated by either chemical reactions or aeration for reuse to prolong the filter media's service life and to reduce the operation and maintenance costs. Said air emission control means is provided when compressed air aeration is applied to said pressure filter for regeneration of said reactive filter media. The apparatus of this invention is compact and simple, and can cost-effectively remove suspended, dissolved, volatile, radioactive and living contaminants from a contaminated liquid.

Method and apparatus for filtration with plural ultraviolet treatment

The present invention relates to a multi-stage, single reactor, purification system for disinfecting, washing, and concentrating solid wastes, which include contaminated soil, highly concentrated biosolids, spent animal bedding, and spent diapers, etc. A solid waste is fed into the reactor of this invented apparatus. At least one disinfecting and chemical agent (including cationic surface active agent known as quaternary ammonium compound) is fed together with water (as needed) into this reactor to disinfect and process said solid waste with the assistance of a mechanical mixing means inside said reactor. A disinfecting gas is fed to the same reactor as needed. After the period of feeding, disinfecting, processing, and mixing is over, the process water is drained. The disinfected and processed wet solid waste is discharged to an expulsion chamber means which removes residual water and compacts the disinfected and processed solid waste. The drained process water and the removed residual water are discharged either into a municipal sewer system for proper disposal, or into a chemical neutralizer means for pretreatment before its sewer discharge, or for production of a fertilizer aid containing nitrogen and phosphorus.

Method and apparatus for purifying and compacting solid wastes

An improved cross-flow granular filtration system involving the use of ultraviolet, ozonation, chlorination, reactive granular filtration media, chemical regeneration, and central flow control is described. The process system and apparatus includes a liquid pump, a central flow control, a cross-flow reactive pressure filter, a process tank and at least one chemical feeder. The filter media are of reactive and granular type, including diatomaceous earth, granular activated carbon, granular metal medium, greensand, neutralizing sand, activated alumina, ion exchange resins, polymeric adsorbents, coal, porous plastic medium, porous stainless steel medium, porous ceramic medium, bacteriostatic filter medium, or combinations thereof. Alternatively a downflow or upflow filter is substituted for the crossflow reactive pressure filter. The process tank contains and handles regeneration chemicals or filter aids for the reactive filter media. The process system is compact and simple, and cost-effectively removes suspended, dissolved, volatile and living contaminants from liquid.

Contamination removal system employing filtration and plural ultraviolet

An improved gas dissolving and releasing liquid treatment system involving the use of multi-stages gas dissolving pressure vessel and the use of a pressurized water release assembly and an open vessel is described. The gas dissolving and releasing liquid treatment system includes a liquid pressure pump, a pressure vessel, a gas injector, an inlet nozzle assembly, a gas compressor, gas regulators, gas flow meters, pressure gauges, a safety valve, a bleed-off point, feeders, pumps, a pressurized water release unit, a liquid flow meter, an open vessel, sludge removal means, and air emission control means. More than one gases introduced at different inlets are dissolved simultaneously and efficiently in the pressure vessel under controlled high pressure and high rotating velocity. The improved liquid treatment system is compact, simple and cost-effective, and is applied to ozonation, chlorination, recarbonation, oxygenation, bio-oxidation, nitrogenation, aeration, and flotation processes. Chemicals and/or microorganisms are dosed to the present invention to facilitate the required chemical and/or biochemical reactions for liquid treatment.

Gas dissolving and releasing liquid treatment system

A water treatment multi-stage process and apparatus thereof for removing dissolved, colloidal, volatile, suspended and living contaminants from water, wastewater or sludge streams which includes chemical feeding, static mixing, flotation chemical monitoring and optimization, gas pressurization, hydraulic flocculation, sedimentation, flotation, and final water treating by converting dissolved solids to insoluble forms by oxidation and chemical precipitation, coagulating and clarifying colloidal substances and microorganisms, magnetic or electronic treating the remaining contaminants in the water to produce a purified water. A majority of insoluble suspended particles in the water are collected by sedimentation and flotation separation procedures and subsequently dewatered and dried and all necessary unit processes operations are incorporated into an apparatus with common walls and drive mechanisms for improviding the water treatment efficiency, reducing secondary pollution caused by scums/sludges, and eliminating the needs of a separate mixer, monitor, flocculator, pressure vessel, clarifier, aerator, biofouling preventor, and scale and corrosion controller.

Water treatment apparatus

A liquid treatment multi-stage process and apparatus thereof for removing dissolved, colloidal, volatile, suspended and living contaminants from water, wastewater or sludge streams which includes chemical feeding, static mixing, gas pressurization, hydraulic flocculation, sedimentation, flotation, adsorption, filtration and disinfection by converting dissolved solids to insoluble forms by oxidation and chemical precipitation, coagulating and clarifying colloidal substances and microorganisms, adsorbing, filtering and disinfecting the remaining contaminants in the liquid to produce a purified liquid. A majority of insoluble suspended particles in the liquid are collected by sedimentation and flotation separation procedures and subsequently dewatered and dried and all necessary unit processes operations are incorporated into an apparatus with common walls and drive mechanisms for improving the liquid treatment efficiency, reducing secondary pollution caused by scums/sludges, and eliminating the needs of a separate mixer, flocculator, pressure vessel, aerator, adsorber, filter, clear well and chlorinator.

Liquid treatment apparatus

A sludge treatment multi-stage process and apparatus thereof for sludge concentration and liquid stream treatment which includes chemical feeding, static mixing, chemical monitoring and optimization, built-in gas pressurization, hydraulic flocculation, grit settling, multiple stage upward flotation thickening, downward gravity thickening, and final magnetic or electrical treatment to produce a highly concentrated sludge slurry and a treated effluent. A majority of floated, settled and thickened sludges are collected by a travelling combined scooping-scraping means and subsequently dewatered and dried and all necessary unit processes and unit operations are incorporated into an apparatus with common walls and drive mechanisms for improving the sludge and water treatment efficiency, reducing secondary pollution caused by scums/sludges, and eliminating the needs of a separate mixer, monitor, flocculator, pressure vessel, flotation thickening clarifier, gravity thickening clarifier, aerator, biofouling preventor, scale controller, corrosion controller, and multiple apparatus for various modes of operations.

Sludge treatment apparatus

A water filtration multi-stage process and apparatus thereof for removing dissolved, colloidal, volatile, suspended and living contaminants from water or wastewater which includes chemical feeding, in-line static mixing, filtration chemical monitoring and optimization, aeration, hydraulic flocculation, grit settling, adsorption, filtration, disinfection, and final water conditioning by converting dissolved solids to insoluble forms by oxidation and chemical precipitation, and then by filtering the insoluble contaminants, adsorbing residual dissolved contaminants, disinfecting the living microorganisms, and applying magnetic or electronic field for conditioning to produce a purified water.

Water filtration apparatus

An improved gas dissolving and releasing system involving the use of multistages of porous gas dissolving media at the center and near the wall of a pressure vessel is described. The gas dissolving system includes a liquid pressure pump, a pressure vessel with tangential inlet and outlet, a gas injector, an inlet nozzle assembly, a center gas dissolving tube, one or more wall-mounted gas dissolving plate assembly, a gas compressor, gas regulators, gas flow meter(s), pressure gauge(s), safety valve(s), sight tube(s), a bleed-off point, a pressurized water release unit, and a liquid flow meter. The liquid flow pattern inside of the pressure vessel is controlled to be of either swirling upflow, swirling downflow or swirling horizontal flow at a rotation speed of over 2,500 rpm. A set of special nozzles with different orifices is designated for precise liquid flow control and liquid rotation speed control. More than one gases introduced at different inlets are dissolved simultaneously and efficiently in the pressure vessel under controlled pressure at 2-7 atm. The improved gas dissolving system is compact, simple and cost-effective, and is applied to ozonation, chlorination, recarbonation, oxygenation, nitrogenation, aeration, and flotation processes.

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