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7563366 System for removing BOD and suspended solids through an activated sludge process and a ballasted flocculation process  
A method and system for treating water or wastewater to remove both soluble BOD and suspended solids. The method entails directing first and second water or wastewater streams to a treatment system...
7479220 Plant for the removal of metals by biosorption from mining or industrial effluents  
A method and a plant to remove metals by biosorption from mining or industrial effluents comprising: (a) subject the effluent to at least one first stage of pre-treatment, selecting among:...
7468129 Oil-water separator  
An oil-water separator for use in a trench, which surrounds an oilfield. The separator is positioned in the ground such that an inlet conduit extends at about the same level as the bottom of the...
7449117 Filtration unit, installation method for a filtration unit and filtration apparatus  
A filtration unit that includes a casing that has a closed bottom and is immersed in a water storage tank (or water storage pond) into which raw water is introduced, the casing being composed of a...
7371323 System and method for reducing wastewater contaminants  
A wastewater treatment system. Toilet, kitchen, commercial, and industrial process waste is segregated from the total wastewater stream and treated in order to reduce the total nitrogen,...
7311829 Water conversion device  
A water treatment device and method for treating a quantity of water is powered by gravitational flow. The device includes an upper collecting chamber ( 14 ) and a filtration chamber ( 18 ). The...
7291262 Road surface waste water treatment device and tubular water treatment unit  
The invention provides a runoff water purification system for removing pollutants which accumulate on road surfaces, thereby reducing the workload of the sewage water treatment plants and...
7291265 Passive treatment of wastewater and contaminated groundwater  
A bioremediation system using inorganic oxide-reducing microbial consortia for the treatment of, inter alia coal mine and coal yard runoff uses a containment vessel for contaminated water and a...
7166214 Dental amalgam separator  
An apparatus for the removal of mercury and other harmful substances from effluents produced in dentist offices is described. The apparatus involves a series of inclined plates upon which mercury...
7157001 Carbon filtration process and apparatus for removing PCB's and other compounds from wastewater  
Process and apparatus for treating wastewater from a sewer system including the steps of: (A) removing solids contained in the influent to create solids-depleted preliminary effluent (PrE) and to...
7105086 Storm drain capture and containment device  
A storm drain system ( 10 ) contained in the ground ( 36 ) contains a standpipe ( 12 ) having a bottom section ( 18 ) having perforations ( 20 ) where a porous pavement ( 22 ) surrounds the top...
7065863 Liquid splash preventing mechanism and component mounting apparatus  
The present invention has for its object to provide a mechanism for preventing a liquid from splashing from a liquid tank, and a component mounting apparatus with this liquid splashing prevention...
6998038 Stormwater treatment system  
A system for removing material from a flowing liquid, where the system includes one or more cartridges, where each cartridge has an outer permeable wall and an inner permeable wall that form a...
6991734 Solids retention in stormwater system  
Apparatus for receiving and dispersing stormwater beneath the earth surface is comprised of an array of chambers, preferably having arch shape cross section, buried in crushed stone. Surface...
6966987 Tangentially fed media filter method and apparatus  
A water treatment device for purifying process water by filtration comprising a housing containing a filter media, having a bottom gravel bed and an upper silica bed, and a fluidizer for...
6821445 Rainwater-treating apparatus in combined sewer system and backwashing method therefor  
The present invention is aimed at treating rainwater in a combined sewer system, while enabling removal of a majority of pollution substances even if a large amount of entering rainwater. The...
6783683 Stormwater pollutant separation system and method of stormwater management  
A stormwater pollutant separator system is provided with the system having a stormwater pollutant separator, a by-pass system, an intake conduit and an outflow conduit connected together. The...
6709585 Purification system for wastewater coming from fruit and vegetable processing plants and phytosanitary treatments in the field  
Said equipment include a tank-filter ( 1, 15 ) in which a pretreatment stage is carried out. The tank ( 1 ) is a decanter to which a flocculant that is uniformly mixed with an agitator ( 3 ) can be...
6524473 Gravitational separator and drainwater treatment system for use in a horizontal passageway  
A hydrodynamic gravitational separator and an attending drainwater filtration section positionable within a horizontal flow passage of a drainage system utilizes a circular-walled collection cavity...
6495033 Device for separating two non-mixable liquids with different specific gravities  
Device for separating two non-mixable liquids with different specific gravities such as oil and water, which device contains a first separation tank ( 2 ) with an overflow ( 11, 12 ) for each of...
6461502 Apparatus for recovering a specific ingredient in sea water  
An apparatus for recovering a specific ingredient in sea water, which comprises an adsorbing bed tank, a layer of an adsorbent charged on the bottom portion of the adsorbing bed tank, a sea water...
6451173 Separator system  
An improved apparatus useful in a process for separating a liquid stream (which can be an HF catalyst mixture) having a first liquid component (which can be HF), a second liquid component (which...
6432312 Closed system for rearing aquatic life  
The present invention provides improvements for indoor closed systems used to raise aquatic life, along with methods to overcome the current problems associated with such indoor closed systems. The...
6428698 Coagulation precipitator  
A coagulator for receiving water bearing suspended solids and a coagulant and for coagulating the suspended solids includes a coagulation and sedimentation part and an upstream coagulation part....
6428697 System for processing waste water  
Methods comprise processing wastewater to produce useful products. Preferably wastewater is ash leachate from landfills which is processed using magnetohydrodynamic treatment followed by...
6358407 High turbidity wastewater purification system  
A device and method for the filtration and purification of suspended solids from high turbidity wastewater or other fluids using a slow circulating fluid stream flow inside a vessel of fluid...
6337016 Apparatus for removing noxious contaminants from drainage water  
The invention relates to an improvement in known apparatus for removing or separating certain contaminants and debris from drainage water. The known device has a tank defining a chamber with an...
6319396 Clarifier cone for filtering and separating solids from solution  
A separator vessel and a biological reactor vessel are connected in tandem to remove separable wastes from waste water and to deactivate toxins, respectively. In a first embodiment, waste water is...
6299771 Composite adsorbent element  
A composite adsorbent element comprising a packed mixture of granules and fibers, which are desirably granular activated carbon (GAC) and activated carbon fiber (ACF). The element is employed as a...
6290842 Coagulator  
A front packing medium accumulation layer (90) and a downstream packing medium accumulation layer (44) which are separated by a lower outflow prevention plate (40) are arranged within a coagulation...
6217757 Storm drain filter with vertical screens  
The present storm drain filter comprises a tubular housing with a solid vertical surrounding wall and sized for being recessed inside a storm drain. The housing is supported in the drain by a...
6217760 Waste water treatment system  
The waste water treatment system comprises a waste water treatment facility having an inlet for the entry of waste water and an outlet, and a re-circulation tank including an inlet and an outlet....
6177004 Septic system filter apparatus  
A septic system filter apparatus for filtering waste water as it travels from a septic tank to a septic field. The septic system filter apparatus includes a filtering system for filtering water...
6132620 Method and apparatus for separating oil and water  
Oil is separated from an aqueous mixture by first feeding the oil-water mixture into a separation tank and allowing the mixture to separate by gravity so that the oil rises to the surface, forming...
6083402 Stormwater drain filter  
A Stormwater Drain Filter for removing sediment and liquid hydrocarbons comprised of a tank having a central outlet which flows into a sewer inlet and is surrounded by a floating boom which is...
6077426 Filter filled with loose bulk material  
A filter with a horizontally fed filter chamber having loose bulk material as the filter medium has a wall on the upstream side and downstream side to hold back the loose bulk material in the...
6024870 Sewage filtration system  
A sewage filtration system for efficiently filtering sewage waste material from smaller residential areas without the use of expensive sewage treatment plants. The inventive device includes a...
6013180 Mineral filtering apparatus  
The present invention relates to a mineral filtering apparatus in which the raw water is passed through a plurality of filtering processes, such as automatically filtrating without pressure,...
5989416 Wastewater treatment system  
A filter bed base for the treatment of wastewater discharged from a dwelling, business or like producer. The filter bed base is generally rectangular in shape and includes an upper and lower...
5980761 Filter system and a cartridge containing a cellular granular material  
The main application of the invention lies in making cartridges, filters and complete filter systems for regeneration purposes, in particular for regenerating swimming pool water, and for that...
5948266 Hand manipulable skimmer system for removing an oil sheen from the surface of a body of water  
A portable liquid surface skimmer efficiently removes small spills of petroleum derivatives from the surface of water, and is useful, for example, on thin sheen spills of oil or gasoline, in...
5906714 Method for treating emulsified liquids  
A method of separating water from an aqueous emulsion using a minimum of energy includes heating the aqueous emulsion in a sump, conveying concentrated emulsion from the sump to a heat exchanger so...
5866019 Method for backwashing filters in a water treatment plant with clarifier and peripheral filter cells  
Apparatus for treating a liquid containing suspended solids comprising a clarifying vessel and a number of filters positioned around the periphery of the clarifying vessel for receiving and...
5804062 Water treatment plant with clarifier and peripheral filter  
Apparatus for treating a liquid containing suspended solids comprising a clarifying vessel and a number of filters positioned around the periphery of the clarifying vessel for receiving and...
5738781 Household waste water treatment and recycling system  
A household waste water treatment and recycling system comprising a rigid septic tank having a hollow body with a top opening and a lid secured over the top opening to thereby create an enclosed...
5730878 Contaminated waste-water treatment method and device  
A waste-water treatment device that includes a coalescing plate separator (CPS) for receiving waste-water and for specific gravity separation of hydrocarbon fluids and particles having a lower...
5702609 Water retrieval from aqueous mixture of organic phosphates  
Process and apparatus for separating aryl phosphates and esters and hydrolysates thereof from water in an aqueous mixture thereof. A superposed layer of the mixture is decanted from a lower layer...
5690827 Sewage treatment system using peat and a constructed wetland  
A system and method of sewage treatment which comprises the sequential steps of: (i) subjecting waste water to be treated to a primary settling means to remove settleable solids and suspended...
5626748 Liquid separator  
This invention relates to waste water treatment, more specifically this invention relates to transportable decontamination system for water which is pumped from manholes and equipment vaults. The...
5603825 Multi-stage apparatus for separating immiscible fluids  
A compact multi-stage oil-water separator which has application in removing oily contaminants from bilge water in ships is disclosed. The oil-water separator has two toroidal mechanical separation...
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