WATER TREATMENT EQUIPMENT FOR RECIRCULATING AQUACULTURE

• US 20150373954A1
• Filed: 06/27/2014
• Published: 12/31/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Chi-Tse Kuo
• Original Assignee: Chi-Tse Kuo
• Inventors: KUO, CHI-TSE
• Application Number:
  US14/317,803
• Publication Number:
  US 20150373954A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 63/04 Arrangements for treating water specially adapted to receptacles for live fish
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 63/042 Introducing gases into the water, e.g. aerators, air pumps
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 63/045 Filters for aquaria
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/24 by flotation C02F1/465 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/444 by ultrafiltration or microfiltration
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2103/20 from animal husbandry
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 3/06 using submerged filters
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 3/303 characterised by the nitrification
• CPC Class Codes: Y02W 10/10 Biological treatment of water, waste water, or sewage

Abstract

Water treatment equipment for recirculating aquaculture contains: at least one aquaculture tank, an aeration unit, at least one water circulating tank, a plurality of membrane filtering units and a water returning unit. Each aquaculture tank includes plural connecting plate units and a flowing cup; the aeration unit includes a plurality of air supply pipes. Each water circulating tank includes a nitration reacting chamber and an accommodating chamber, and the nitration reacting chamber has a flow tube outwardly extending to the flowing cup and a nitrifying bacteria layer fixed therein. Each membrane filtering unit is a circularly flat membrane and includes a water pipe and plural disc-shaped film bags, wherein each film bag has two filtering films communicating with the water pipe; and the water returning unit is fixed outside each aquaculture tank and includes a pump and a water return tube.

Claims

1. Water treatment equipment for recirculating aquaculture comprising:

at least one aquaculture tank, each being removable and including plural connecting plate units connected together to form an octagonal hollow tank, and each aquaculture tank also including a flowing cup;

an aeration unit including a plurality of air supply pipes arranged on a bottom end of each aquaculture tank to input exterior air into water for having aeration, maintaining dissolved oxygen and producing tiny air bubbles, such that residual feeding and excreta in each aquaculture tank float upwardly and then flow out of each aquaculture tank via the flowing cup;

at least one water circulating tank, each being removable and disposed on a first side of each aquaculture tank proximate to the flowing cup, and each water circulating tank including a nitration reacting chamber defined on a bottom end thereof and an accommodating chamber arranged above the nitration reacting chamber, the nitration reacting chamber having a flow tube outwardly extending to the flowing cup and a nitrifying bacteria layer fixed therein, such that the water flows into the nitration reacting chamber through the flow tube to be nitrified/denitrified by the nitrifying bacteria layer, thus removing ammonia, nitrate and nitrite in the water;

a plurality of membrane filtering units arranged in the accommodating chamber, and each membrane filtering unit being a circularly flat membrane and including a water pipe and plural disc-shaped film bags tightly inserted on the water pipe, wherein each film bag has two filtering films communicating with the water pipe; and

a water returning unit fixed outside each aquaculture tank and including a pump joined with one end of the water pipe and a water return tube connected with an outlet end of the pump, the water return tube extending to each aquaculture tank, and the water being pumped backed to each aquaculture tank via the water pipe and the water return tube, thus forming recycled water.

2. The treatment equipment for the recirculating aquaculture as claimed in claim 1, wherein each connecting plate unit has a first plate and a second plate which are manufactured in a predetermined proportion and are coupled together, the aeration unit also includes plural air control valves communicating with the plurality of air supply pipes, each air supply pipe has plural branch pipes extending outwardly from two sides thereof, and each branch pipe has a plurality of air holes.

3. The treatment equipment for the recirculating aquaculture as claimed in claim 2, wherein each of the first plate and the second plate has an antibacterial material layer fixed on an inner wall thereof to enhance antimicrobial effect.

4. The treatment equipment for the recirculating aquaculture as claimed in claim 3, wherein the antibacterial material layer is a stainless steel mesh made of silver, copper, cobalt and titanium dioxide (TiO2), and the antibacterial material layer is removed from each of the first plate and the second plate.

5. The treatment equipment for the recirculating aquaculture as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a sterilization unit mounted for supplying oxygen in the water of each aquaculture tank.

6. The treatment equipment for the recirculating aquaculture as claimed in claim 5, wherein the sterilization unit includes at least one UV light source, a suction valve connecting with the at least one UV light source, and an ozone supply tube extending into the bottom end of each aquaculture tank and communicating with the suction valve, and the ozone supply tube is fixed on a second side of each aquaculture tank away from the flowing cup, thus flowing ozone with the water widely.

7. The treatment equipment for the recirculating aquaculture as claimed in claim 1 further comprising the spraying unit mounted above the plurality of membrane filtering units and including a backwash pipe communicating with the water return tube so as to guide the water to spray each film bag.

8. The treatment equipment for the recirculating aquaculture as claimed in claim 1, wherein the nitrifying bacteria layer is filled in a mesh bag and has nitrosomonas and actived carbon which are mixed together, and porous solidified granules made of high polymer.

9. The treatment equipment for the recirculating aquaculture as claimed in claim 1, wherein each water circulating tank has a discharging outlet.