Method of removing ozone remaining in water

• US 20090032473A1
• Filed: 07/31/2007
• Published: 02/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Company Limited (Mitsui E&S Holdings Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Company Limited (Mitsui E&S Holdings Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Saito, Masahiro, Ueki, Shuji
• Granted Patent: US 7,771,516 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 210/718
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/20 by degassing, i.e. liberation of dissolved gases degasification of liquids in general B01D19/00; arrangement of degassing apparatus in boiler feed supply F22D
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/74 with air aeration of stretches of water C02F7/00
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/78 with ozone C02F1/4672 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2303/18 Removal of treatment agents after treatment

Abstract

The present invention provides a method of removing ozone remaining in water by separating residual ozone which remains in water after ozone is melted in the water and kills microorganisms in the water including the steps of storing water containing the residual ozone in a pressure tank, supplying the pressure tank with compressed air, generating coarse bubbles larger than the residual ozone existing in water in the form of micro bubbles in pressurized condition, making the residual ozone in the form of micro bubbles adhere to the coarse bubbles, separating the residual ozone from water as the coarse bubbles go up, and discharging the micro bubbles from the pressure tank.

Accordingly, the present invention provides a method of removing ozone remaining in water to remove ozone remaining in water inexpensively and efficiently.

Claims

1. A method of removing ozone remaining in water by separating residual ozone which remains in water after ozone is melted in the water and kills microorganisms in the water comprising the steps of:

storing water containing the residual ozone in a pressure tank;

supplying the pressure tank with compressed air;

generating coarse bubbles larger than the residual ozone existing in water in the form of micro bubbles in pressurized condition;

making the residual ozone in the form of micro bubbles adhere to the coarse bubbles;

separating the residual ozone from water as the coarse bubbles go up; and

discharging the micro bubbles from the pressure tank.

2. The method of removing remaining ozone in water according to claim 1, wherein the water is ballast water which is to be fed into ballast tanks of ships.

3. The method of removing residual ozone in water according to claim 1, wherein the size of the coarse bubbles is 10-100 times as large as that of the micro bubbles.

4. The method of removing residual ozone in water according to claim 1, wherein compressed air is fed into the pressure tank in discharging the exhaust gas containing micro bubbles and coarse bubbles from the pressure tank.

5. The method of removing residual ozone in water according to claim 1, wherein the pressure tank is provided with a means to prevent shortcutting of the water yet to be rid of the residual ozone.

6. The method of removing residual ozone in water according to claim 1, wherein turbulent flow is generated in the water flowing in a pipe on the downstream side of the position where ozone is injected by use of a static mixer in melting the ozone in the water.

7. The method of removing residual ozone in water according to claim 1, wherein whirlpools are generated in the water flowing in the pipe on the upstream side of the position where ozone is injected by use of a whirlpool generating screw-propeller in melting the ozone in the water.

8. The method of removing residual ozone in water according to claim 1, wherein air is mixed together with ozone in melting the ozone in the water, then micro bubbles are generated.

9. The method of removing residual ozone in water according to claim 1, wherein a jet generating device having a jet nozzle making water jet and an impact plate generating cavitation by making the jet crash against the impact plate are installed in a pipe, and ozone is injected into the water in the pipe before or after the water passes through the jet generating device.