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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
James C. T. Chen, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Petreco International Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C02F 1/42 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C02F 1/42 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides a method of treating the waste brine generated by the regeneration step in a water softener system and for recovering the treated waste brine so that it can be utilized as the regeneration feed for the water softener regeneration step thereby, requiring substantially lesser amounts of fresh salt.