Mitsubishi Rayon Engineering Co., Ltd.

Mitsubishi Rayon Company, Limited

Shinichi Ishii

Munehiro Okumura

Osamu Yamamoto

Tadashi Matsuda

Shingo Mori

Tetsuya Ohmura

Masujiro Arita

Kazuo Kuwahara

Hideki Hattori

Shojiro Kido

Takao Nomura

This invention provides an aerator comprising a jet stream generator for ejecting a gas and a liquid in a mixed state from a nozzle, and a tubular flow straightener for mixing the bubble-containing stream ejected from the nozzle with ambient water and discharging the resulting mixture from the discharge orifice thereof, characterized in that the flow straightener has a tubular form whose internal diameter is reduced from the inlet toward the discharge orifice through at least a part of its length. This aerator can produce a stream containing minute gas bubbles, even when a gas is supplied thereto in such a large amount as to give a gas-to-liquid volume ratio of 3/1.

Aerator and aerobic biological treatment process using same

The present invention provides a hollow-fiber filter module comprising a straight tube, a bundle of hollow fibers having at least a part thereof disposed within the straight tube, a fastening member for bundling and fixing the open ends of the hollow fibers, and at least a branch tube having an end protruding to the outside of the straight tube, that surface of the fastening member which includes the open ends of the hollow fibers being attached to the branch tube in a fluid-tight manner, as well as a filtration method in which a plurality of such hollow-fiber filter modules are connected in series to form a filter module assembly and a fluid to be treated is filtered by utilizing one end of the connected straight tubes of the assembly as an inlet for the fluid to be treated, the other end thereof as an outlet for the fluid to be treated, and the branch tube of each module as an outlet for the filtered fluid. This hollow-fiber filter module has a simple construction, causes only a slight pressure loss of the fluid to be treated, and is suitable for use in the treatment of fluids by cross flow filtration.

Hollow-fiber filter module and filtration method using the same

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Hachiouji, Japan

Shinichi Ishii