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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 26, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
William Rodgers, Chipping Norton, New South Wales, 2170, AU;
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B04C / ; B01D / ; B01D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
210704 ; 210723 ; 210787 ; 210808 ;
Abstract
A method of removing suspended solids from contaminated liquid by the steps of passing the contaminated liquid after the addition of a flocculation agent and dissolved gas as a vortex flow through a tapered upwardly divergent conduit from a conduit entry end to a conduit outlet end. Trapping flocs at the outlet end of the conduit in a depressurised dischargeable chamber which extends into the conduit at the outlet end and is in communication with the liquid in the conduit and simultaneously discharging floc free liquid from a zone between the chamber and the conduit wall defining the conduit outlet end.