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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 1999
Filed:
Feb. 13, 1996
Dwight Douglas Back, Melbourne, FL (US);
Robert Peter Scaringe, Rockledge, FL (US);
Charlie Ramos, Satellite Beach, FL (US);
Nidal Abdul Samad, Palm Bay, FL (US);
Steven Dale Gann, Sr, Merritt Island, FL (US);
Mainstream Engineering Corporation, Rockledge, FL (US);
Abstract
A process and system recycles and reuses gray water generated by dishwashers, showers, carwashes, and clothes washers while maintaining the same cleaning performance as current systems. Hollow-fiber membrane ultrafiltration is used to reduce fresh water supply demands and gray water generation where voluminous quantities of the latter are generated. For a clothes washer, the gray water reuse or recycle system consists of a closed-loop water recycle which can be redirected to a storage tank for other applications, or directly used in situ with a clothes washer for subsequent rinse cycles. The process uses, at a minimum, 50% less water than conventional residential and commercial washers, and also decreases detergent requirements by 30% because a portion of the rinse water can be re-used for subsequent wash cycles.