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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2024
Filed:
May. 29, 2019
Dupont Safety & Construction, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Martin Heijnen, Greifenberg, DE;
DUPONT SAFETY & CONSTRUCTION, INC., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to filtration system (), comprising a tank () filled at least partly with water to be filtered, and at least one filtration module (), the at least one filtration module () comprising at least one filter membrane () for filtering the water comprising a substrate () which is penetrated by at least one capillary (), and at least one filtrate pipe () for drawing filtered water out of the tank (), whereat the at least one filtration module () is arranged in the tank () such that the at least one filter membrane () is submerged at least partly in the water to be filtered. The at least one filtration module () is designed and arranged such that water to be filtered flows into the at least one capillary () and from the at least one capillary () through the substrate () into the filtrate pipe (). The invention also relates to a method for filtering water by means of a filtration system () according to the invention, whereat the water to be filtered is drawn into the at least one capillary () and from the at least one capillary () through the substrate () into the filtrate pipe () and from the filtrate pipe () out of the tank ().