20869 results about "Aeration" patented technology

The invention provides a simple method, devices and several machines for simultaneously stirring and aerating thousands of vessels or wells of microplates in a robust manner and with economy. This method uses the simple principle of magnetic stirrers being levitated vertically when passed laterally or vertically through a strong horizontal dipole magnetic field. The dipole magnetic fields may be produced by using permanent magnets, electromagnets or a modulating / reversing electro-magnetic field. Each vessel contains a magnetic ball, disc, bar, dowel or other shape (stirrers) which in their magnetic attraction to the dipole magnetic field will cause the stirrers to levitate up in the vessel as the stirrer's magnetic poles attempt to align with the center of the dipole's magnetic field. The stirrers will fall to the bottom of the vessel by gravity or by changing the relative position of the levitating magnetic field to pull them down, or by passing the vessel laterally over another magnetic field. The up and down movement of the stirrers provides a vigorous mixing of the contents of many vessels at same time. If the level of the vessel's meniscus is situated so the stirrers pass through it on their way up and down, the air / liquid interface is significantly increased thereby significantly increasing aeration of the liquid.

A system for microbially and / or chemically decontaminating a room such as a hotel room includes a vapor generator which supplies a decontaminant vapor, such as hydrogen peroxide vapor to the room. The room is then aerated to a level at which it is safe for normal occupants to enter. By using a two step aeration, with a second step at lower humidity than the first, the concentration of residual hydrogen peroxide is reduced rapidly to safe levels of 1 ppm or less, typically about 0.5 ppm, in under four hours. The room is rendered substantially free of contaminants, such as those responsible for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Norwalk virus, and unpleasant odors.

A more economical and light-color cellular concrete is provided by the replacement of Portland cement with ground glass powder in a cellular lightweight concrete mixture and the resulting method to make cellular concrete products. The use of ground glass also increases the stability of the cellular lightweight concrete mixture during the foaming or aeration process. The products are suitable for use in structural applications, insulation, and as a lightweight aggregate.

A scaled-up multi-coaxial fiber bioreactor, and variations of this bioreactor. The device is characterized by a hollow housing and an array of from about 20 to about 400 modules of hollow fibers, where each module includes at least three coaxial semipermeable hollow fibers. The innermost fiber provides a boundary for an innermost compartment which is connected to inlet and outlet ports. Arranged coaxially around the central hollow fiber are several other hollow fibers with their respective compartments, each compartment defined by a respective annular space between adjacent fibers and each including inlet and outlet ports. An outermost compartment for permitting integral aeration is the space between the outer side of the outermost fibers and the inner side of the housing, and has inlet and outlet ports. The hollow housing has inlet and outlet manifolds and flow distributors for each of the compartments. In a preferred embodiment the bioreactor is used as an extracorporeal liver. Liver cells, are introduced into one or more annular compartments and media and aeration are provided in others. Plasma from an ailing patient is introduced into another compartment for biotransformation of blood-borne toxins and biosynthesis of proteins, lipids, and other metabolic products.

Disclosed are a membrane coupled activated sludge method and apparatus operating anoxic / anaerobic processes alternately for removal of nitrogen and phosporus, wherein nitrogen and phosphorous together with organics in the sewage, wastewater, filthy water etc. can be simultaneously removed with an economic and efficient manner, an operation thereof is easy and efficient, a capacity thereof is high and the method is economic due to the reduced operating costs with performing measurement and control of a recycle rate, a recycle time of alternate operation of the anoxic and anaerobic process, an amount of sludge, an amount of aeration and an operation of a blower for an intermittent membrane cleaning.

The improvements proposed in this invention provide a reliable apparatus and method to gasify low rank coals in a class of pressurized circulating fluidized bed reactors termed “transport gasifier.” The embodiments overcome a number of operability and reliability problems with existing gasifiers. The systems and methods address issues related to distribution of gasification agent without the use of internals, management of heat release to avoid any agglomeration and clinker formation, specific design of bends to withstand the highly erosive environment due to high solid particles circulation rates, design of a standpipe cyclone to withstand high temperature gasification environment, compact design of seal-leg that can handle high mass solids flux, design of nozzles that eliminate plugging, uniform aeration of large diameter Standpipe, oxidant injection at the cyclone exits to effectively modulate gasifier exit temperature and reduction in overall height of the gasifier with a modified non-mechanical valve.

An aerator for immersed filtering membranes has an aerator shell with openings for discharging bubbles from its upper surface and a shape capable of temporarily containing a volume of air in fluid communication with the openings. The shell is open to tank water below it and located so that discharged bubbles will rise through an assembly of the filtering membranes. The shell may be wholly or partially made of parts of the assemblies of filtering membranes. A supply of air is provided to the air space in the aerators alternating between a high flow rate and a low flow rate in short cycles of between about 10 seconds and 100 seconds. A filtration system has an inlet for adding substrate and an outlet for retentate are located so as to create a horizontal flow of substrate through the tank. Membrane assemblies are located within the horizontal flow of substrate. Aerators as described above are provided and operated as described above.

The stereo in-situ ecological urban water system repairing process tackles polluted water via the quantitative analysis on the water. The technological scheme includes physical simulation and mathematic model analysis, microbe inoculation and culture, constituting refluxing ecological filter bed, purification with biocarrier, artificial aeration, purifying upper water, pre-treatment in the blow down port, establishing water ecological system balance, perfecting water environment data, etc. The present invention realizes the comprehensive tackling of urban water system.

The invention is a battery powered source for an air handling system that provides subsurface aeration services when an available power source provides insufficient power. The system comprises a subsurface aeration duct, a motor, an air pump, a storage battery, a battery charger, and a control circuit responsive to commands. The control circuit is operatively coupled to the storage battery to control a connection of the storage battery to provide power to the motor. In response to a command, the control circuit connects the storage battery to provide power to the motor, and the storage battery provides sufficient power to operate the motor and air pump satisfactorily for operation of an air handling system used for subsurface aeration. The system further comprises a reversing valve to provide air under pressure with air flow in a first direction, and partial vacuum with air flow in a second direction.

The invention is a system and method for managing a plurality of areas of interest of a golf course. The system comprises a plurality of subsurface aeration subsystems and a programmable master control module. Each subsystem provides to a specific area at least one of air under pressure and a partial vacuum. In each area of interest, a local control module is responsive to a directive and to a datum (environmental or operational parameter). The local control module is configured to operate the subsystem and is in communication with the programmable master control module. The programmable master control module receives from the local control modules area information representing a status of the respective specific area to which the local control module is dedicated, and in response to the area information and to a command, the programmable master control module issues a directive to the local control module to operate the subsurface aeration subsystem.

In a wastewater treatment system and process utilizing membrane bioreactors (MBRs), multiple, parallel series of tanks or stages each include, an MBR stage. Under conditions of normal flow volume into the system, influent passes through several parallel series of stages or process lines, which might be, for example, an anoxic stage, an aeration stage and an MBR stage. From the MBR stages a portion of M.L.S.S. is cycled through one or more thickening MBRs of similar process lines, for further thickening and further processing and digesting of the sludge, while a majority portion of the M.L.S.S. is recycled back into the main process lines. During peak flow conditions, such as storm conditions in a combined storm water / wastewater system, all of the series of stages with their thickening MBRs are operated in parallel to accept the peak flow, which is more than twice normal flow. M.L.S.S. is recycled from all MBR stages to the upstream end of each of all the parallel process lines, mixing with influent wastewater, and the last one or several process lines no longer act to digest the sludge. Another advantage is that with the thickened sludge in the last process line of basins, which ordinally act to digest the sludge, there is always sufficient biomass in the system to handle peak flow, the biomass being available if needed for a sudden heavy flow or an event that might bring a toxic condition into the main basins.

The invention relates to a coal-gas outburst simulation platform for processing coal-gas outburst simulation researches under different coal bed inclinations, different ground stresses and different gas pressures, and researching the transmission rule and attenuation character of acoustic emission signal in the outburst process. The invention uses a plurality of hydraulic jacks to axially jack coal sample, uses an aeration port to charge gas into the coal sample, and can simulate the protruded stress concentrated zone caused by underground coal face, to simulate the outburst condition of coal and gas. The protruded port of the device via a quick release device can realize mechanical automatic control, to quickly open the protruded port to instantly release pressure at the protruded end and eliminate the effect on the protruding energy by manually opening the protruded port, to simulate on-site protrusion actually.

The invention provides a new crop seedling growing matrix, wherein the pH value of the seedling growing matrix is 6.0-6.5. The seedling growing matrix comprises the components by the weight percentage: 50%-80% of an inorganic matrix, and 15-30% of an organic matrix, wherein the organic matrix includes a composition of peat, fermented cattle manure, fermented pig manure, plant ash and an additional organic matrix, and the inorganic matrix includes a composition of vermiculite, perlite and an additional inorganic matrix and is composed of inorganic matrix particles with different particle sizes. The seedling growing matrix provided by the invention has relatively high total porosity and maximum water holding capacity, and is higher in aeration porosity ratio, more reasonable in water-gas ratio, small in bulk density and convenient to transport and use. The seedling growing matrix provided by the invention has the advantages of wide range and many types of applicable crops, high germination rate, less morbidity and good seedling growth vigor.

This is a method of batch-continuous operation for treatment and separation of liquid-solid mixtures in a reactor with reactive solids comprising steps of continuously feeding the liquid in the reactor, contacting (possibly, mixing) liquid with the solids in at least a portion of the reactor, periodically separating the liquid from the solids in unmixed, or predominantly unmixed, portion of the reactor, discharging at least a portion of the separated liquid from the reactor, and retaining the separated solids in the unmixed portion of the reactor, and periodically resuspending the solids in the unmixed portion of the reactor and transferring the resuspended soilds into the portion of the reactor for contacting liquid with the solids. The contacting and / or mixing of the liquid with the solids in the mixed portion of the reactor can be continuous or periodic mixing. The unmixed zone differs from the quiescent zone in conventional clarifiers. It is a flow-through zone with a noticeably high velocity of flow as in aeration tanks of biological treatment systems. The retention time in unmixed zones is much shorter than in clarifiers. The method and apparatus can be used to treat water and wastewater, and in various chemical, biochemical, and pharmaceutical processing operations.

The invention relates to a method for carrying out oxidation treatment on organic waste water by utilizing a three-dimensional electrode electro-fenton and a device thereof. The device comprises a reactor shell, a carbon material cathode, an iron plate anode, a three-dimensional particle electrode of a fixed bed, a direct-current voltage-stabilizing power supply, a microporous aeration plate and an air pump, wherein a reactor consists of a reaction chamber and a gas chamber; the carbon material cathode, the iron plate anode and the particle electrode are positioned in the reaction chamber at the upper part of the reactor; and the gas chamber is formed between the bottom of the reactor and the microporous aeration plate. After direct current is introduced, the iron anode is oxidized to generate iron ions, oxygen in the gas chamber is reduced on the surface of the cathode to generate hydrogen peroxide, and the iron ions and the hydrogen peroxide form a fenton reagent to oxidize and remove organic matters in waste water; and simultaneously, due to the particle electrode, the contact area and the contact time of the waste water and the fenton reagent are increased, and the mass transfer effect of the waste water in the reactor is reduced. The invention is applicable to treatment of various types of organic waste water, the equipment is compact, the operation is easy, the whole reactor is easy to control, and the requirements of an actual water treatment unit are met.

The invention relates to a recycling water saving device of a washing machine, which belongs to the technical field of environmentally-friendly water treatment, comprises a shell, and is characterized in that a recycling water bucket, a water treatment device, a circuit integrated control operation actuator and a control circuit are respectively arranged in the shell, wherein the water treatment device is connected onto the recycling water bucket in parallel, a tap water inlet and a water outlet I of the water saving device are respectively arranged on the upper side of the shell, a water inlet and a water outlet II of the water saving device are respectively arranged on the lower side thereof, and the water treatment device consists of a double pole film and double liquid flow type hydroxyl free-radical generator, an aeration device and a filter unit. The invention comprehensively utilizes the initial discharged washing fluid, keeps the mixed liquid of a first rinsing and a second rinsing to repeatedly wash the clothing, not only the existence and accumulation of the salt content can be neglected, but also the purpose of saving the water resource is achieved. The water saving device is designed into an independent component so as to be compatible to various types of washing machines and detergents. In addition, a program control valve is designed and manufactured to realize the automation of the water saving device.

A soil manipulating tool is disclosed which has a handle (12) and a soil penetrating portion (14). The soil penetrating portion (14) is formed from a helical or spiral rod or wire (13) which defines a cavity (18). The rod or wire (13) may be hollow so that fertilizer or other liquid material can pass through the hollow rod wire (13) into the soil in which the tool is to be used. The tool may also include an abutment member for limiting the amount of penetration of the tool into the soil to facilitate churning up of the soil and a blade may also be provided across one of the spirals of the portion (14) to provide a chopping of soil so that a hole can be formed by removal of a plug of soil but at the same time leaving loosened soil at the bottom of the hole. The tool has particular application in aerating and manipulating composted material and the removal of composted material from a compost bin as well as garden applications for the formation of holes, and the aeration of soil facilitating plant growth.

This invention relates to a method for preparing heat-insulating and energy-saving lightweight aerated wall bricks, which are prepared from aggregate, gelation agent, aeration agent, heat-insulating material and water. The aggregate is composed of slag or river sand, glass microbeads, floating beads, closed perlite, and expanded perlite. The gelation agent is composed of cement, gypsum and lime. The aeration agent is Al powder. The fiber heat-insulating material is composed of high-Al powder, tripolite, ceramic fibers, mineral wool, sepiolite, expanded vermiculite, glass cotton and palygorskite. The wall bricks have such advantages as high compressive strength, low heat conductivity, high heat-insulating performance, high fireproof and damp-proof performances, rapid and convenient construction, and no need for composite heat-insulating layer.

With the coupling of an external field and aeration (or a flow of another gas), nanoparticles can be smoothly and vigorously fluidized. Multiple external fields and / or pre-treatment may be employed with the fluidizing gas: sieving, magnetic assistance, vibration, acoustic / sound or rotational / centrifugal forces. Any of these forces, either alone or in combination, when coupled with a fluidizing medium, provide excellent means for achieving homogenous nanofluidization. The additional force(s) help to break channels as well as provide enough energy to disrupt the strong interparticle forces, thereby establishing an advantageous agglomerate size distribution. Enhanced fluidization is reflected by at least one of the following performance-related attributes: reduced levels of bubbles within the fluidized system, reduced gas bypass relative to the fluidized bed, smooth fluidization behavior, reduced elutriation, a high level of bed expansion, reduced gas velocity levels to achieve desired fluidization performance, and / or enhanced control of agglomerate size / distribution. The fluidized nanoparticles may be coated, surface-treated and / or surface-modified in the fluidized state. In addition, the fluidized nanoparticles may participate in a reaction, either as a reactant or a catalyst, while in the fluidized state.

A scale high-speed composting treatment method of organic wastes comprises the following steps: the organic wastes are taken as fermentable substrates; thoroughly decomposed materials are reused as desiccants and strains; the physicochemical property of the organic wastes is adjusted to the condition required by aerobic fermentation microorganism; forced aeration fermentation is carried out in airiness fermentation plants; the fermentation temperature of fermentation materials is increased to over 70 DEG C in a very short time and high temperature fermentation is maintained for 1-15 days; organic wastes with high water content are quickly dehydrated to below 20-60% in short time and then are transferred to a static forced aeration fermentation system for secondary fermentation; therefore, the water ratios of the fermentation materials are further reduced, the fermentation temperature drops to the ambient temperature and always remains the same, and the materials are thoroughly decomposed. The method realizes scale high-speed composting treatment of the organic wastes and boosts resource treatment of such organic wastes as municipal and industrial sludges.

The invention also relates to a cell culture vessel and in particular to a cell culture vessel assembly which aids aeration and allows for reading of the optical density of the culture without removing the culture from the vessel. The cell culture vessel assembly is suitable for use in the production and purification of cell culture products and in particular to the automated production and purification of protein.

A sewage treatment process is provided, which includes the following steps: a) sewage feeding step, comprising introducing raw sewage into a biological reaction tank (1) to a predetermined time or liquid level; b) reaction step comprising performing aeration and stirring intermittently in the biological reaction tank (1); c) treated water discharging step, comprising performing solid-liquid separation of the mixed liquor in the biological reaction tank (1) by a membrane separation device (2) to obtain a first permeate, which is taken as the final treated water; d) standby step comprising stopping aeration in the biological reaction tank (1); and e) phosphorus-enriched water discharging step, comprising keeping anaerobic condition in the biological reaction tank (1) and performing solid-liquid separation of the mixed liquor in the biological reaction tank (1) by a membrane separation device (2) to obtain a second permeate, the second permeate entering inside a phosphorus recycling unit (5) which is set independent from the biological reaction tank (1), the phosphorus recycling unit (5) removing phosphorus from water, the second permeate becoming low-phosphorus water, and the low-phosphorous water flowing back to the biological reaction tank (1); the sewage treatment process runs in cycle by repeating above steps. A corresponding treatment system is also provided.

A wastewater treatment system includes a tidal, sequential vertical flow marsh cell system having at least three marsh cells in serial forward fluid communication. Incoming wastewater to be treated is channeled to at least the first and a second marsh cell, and a portion of water exiting a final marsh cell, to the first marsh cell surface. Each marsh cell is alternately flooded and drained for enhancing aeration of incoming water and marsh cell contents, which include media and plant roots having biofilms growing thereon, the biofilms including a population of nitrifying and denitrifying bacteria, for achieving substantially simultaneous nitrification and denitrification of the wastewater.

One kind of short range nitrifying-anaerobic aminoxidizing sequencing batch type denitrifying biomembrane mode and plant is disclosed. The limited aerating mode with real-time control of the sewage temperature inside the reactor and high frequency alternation between aeration and anaeration can inhibit the growth of nitrite oxidizing bacteria and denitrifying bacteria so that the aminoxidizing bacteria and the anaerobic aminoxidizing bacteria become the dominant bacteria in the nitrifying and denitrifying stages. In the nitrifying stage, nitrification is stopped in the nitrite step; and in the denitrifying stage, ammonia nitrogen acts as the direct electron donor to reduce nitrite. The plant is provided with fixed spherical composite stuffing with spherical shell of polypropylene and filled inside biological composite material. Sectional discrete water feeding mode is adopted to feed the sewage to be treated in four stages into the reactor.

An exhaust system suitable for high volume exhaust from flexible disposable bags is described that prevents nutrient media volume loss and prevents cross-contamination without using any filters. The invention described here allows the use of disposable two-dimensional bioreactors for the cultivation of bacterial and other organisms and cells require high aeration.

Methods and apparatus for treating wastewater are described, one method embodiment including the steps of flowing a mixed liquor suspended solids to a high rate clarification stage, forming a clarifier effluent, a first waste activated sludge stream, and a return waste activated sludge stream. The high rate clarifier effluent stream then flows to a membrane stage that includes a membrane media, producing a membrane reject (retentate) stream and a treated effluent (permeate) stream. Optionally, the methods include routing a screened raw wastewater to an anaerobic and / or aerated anoxic stage and introducing a gas comprising oxygen to the wastewater during the aerated anoxic stage, and optionally allowing the product of this stage to flow to an aeration stage prior to the high rate clarification stage.

The invention relates to an ecological restoration method for a city watercourse. The ecological restoration method for the city watercourse is characterized in that the polluted city watercourse is comprehensively restored with the combination of physical, biological and ecological technologies, the ecological theory is used for reference in the treatment process, the ecological idea is used as the guiding thought, a complex water ecosystem structure is constructed and restored, the original natural state of the watercourse is restored, the self-cleaning capacity of a river system is improved, the environment is beautified, and the local city microclimates are improved at the same time. The ecological restoration method mainly comprises the steps of (1) controlling a pollution source, (2) modifying the river bank, (3) optimizing the environment of the river bottom, (4) modifying the watercourse, (5) conducting aeration and oxygenation, (6) constructing an aquatic plant community, (7) constructing a fish and macrobenthos community, and (8) maintaining the system. The watercourse ecological system restored through the ecological restoration method has the certain anti-interference capacity, on the premise that a large amount of exogenous pollution is cut off, the certain-strength interference can be resisted, and the good ecological environmental effect is obtained. After one-time input, the better ecological benefit can be obtained only with a small number of maintenance costs.

The invention provides an integrated internal circulation type denitrification and decarburization bio-membrane reactor and an operating method thereof. The main body of the reactor consists of an anoxic zone on the lower part, an aerobic zone on the upper part and a settling zone on the periphery of the aerobic zone; a composite filler is filled in the anoxic zone, and a water inlet pipe is communicated with the bottom of the anoxic zone; the aerobic zone is partitioned into a filler zone for adding a carrier on the upper part and a mud-water mixing zone on the lower part by adopting an orifice plate, the anoxic zone and the aerobic zone are partitioned through an impermeable partition plate, and a plurality of aeration pipes are arranged at the bottom of the aerobic zone and provided with air inlet pores; and the settling zone consists of three parts, namely a clean water zone, a contact settling zone and a sludge returning zone which are sequentially arranged from top to bottom, wherein the bottom of the sludge returning zone is provided with a sludge returning seam and communicated with the bottom of the aerobic zone. The reactor realizes zero power consumption in sludge returning, and is compact in structure; and a back flushing system is not required in the contact settling zone, and additional agents and carbon sources are not required, so that the reactor is low in running cost.

An apparatus for mixing gas and liquid is disclosed. The apparatus can comprise a draft tube having a gas conduit, a liquid inlet and a gas-liquid outlet, an impeller rotatably mounted within the draft tube. The gas can be entrained into the liquid by rotation of an impeller having relatively high angular velocity, which generates relatively low axial velocity of the liquid and relatively low angular velocity of the liquid. Floats may support the impeller and the impeller may have means for maximizing aeration of the liquid.