Method and apparatus for on-site treatment of waste water

• US 20090255871A1
• Filed: 04/10/2009
• Published: 10/15/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tommy Mack Davis
• Original Assignee: Tommy Mack Davis
• Inventors: Davis, Tommy Mack
• Application Number:
  US12/384,959
• Publication Number:
  US 20090255871A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 210/615
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2103/005 Black water originating from toilets
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2209/03 Pressure
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2209/42 Liquid level
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 3/06 using submerged filters
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 3/288 comprising septic tanks combined with a filter
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 3/30 Aerobic and anaerobic processes
• CPC Class Codes: Y02W 10/10 Biological treatment of water, waste water, or sewage

Abstract

A method and apparatus is provided for continuous microbial seeding of waste-laden water directly within septic tanks and similar treatment facilities in order to improve quality of effluent discharge, thereby reducing or eliminating problems commonly associated with such effluent (including, but necessarily limited to, clogging of conventional drain fields). Waste water to be treated flows into a multi-chambered treatment tank. At least one bio-reactor is installed in such tank, and provides for in-situ growth of desired microbial populations within said tank. The present invention allows for demand growth and improved mineralization of wastes both inside the tank, as well as downstream of the treatment tank.

Claims

1. A method of treating waste water comprising:

a. Immobilizing at least one microbial population on a substrate;

b. Placing said substrate within a porous container;

c. Introducing said porous container into said waste water;

d. Supplying oxygen to said container and said at least one microbial population; and

e. mineralizing wastes in said waste water.