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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 25, 2009
Method and apparatus for use of mixing elements in wastewater / recycle water uv disinfection system
Applicant:
Keith G. Bircher, Toronto, CA;
Inventor:
Keith G. Bircher, Toronto, CA;
Assignee:
Calgon Carbon Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01F 5/00 (2006.01); B01F 15/00 (2006.01); A61L 2/00 (2006.01); G01N 23/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus and method for mixing at least one fluid flowing through a fluid system using ultraviolet light to control organisms. Ultraviolet lamps are positioned in the fluid flow and arrays of triangularly shaped mixing elements are arranged at spaced intervals along the length of each lamp, wherein the plurality of arrays of triangularly shaped mixing elements create four vortices surrounding each elongated member forming a square array of vortices.