WATER TREATMENT DEVICE AND METHODS OF USE

• US 20170197856A1
• Filed: 03/02/2017
• Published: 07/13/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Silver Bullet Water Treatment Company, LLC
• Original Assignee: Silver Bullet Water Treatment Company, LLC
• Inventors: Kolstad, David
• Granted Patent: US 9,862,627 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 5/0624 for eliminating microbes, germs, bacteria on or in the body
• CPC Class Codes: C01B 13/10 Preparation of ozone
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/32 with ultraviolet light
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/325 Irradiation devices or lamp constructions
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/48 with magnetic or electric fields C02F1/46 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/481 using permanent magnets
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/722 Oxidation by peroxides
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/727 using pure oxygen or oxygen rich gas
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/78 with ozone C02F1/4672 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2103/023 Water in cooling circuits
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2103/365 from petrochemical industry (e.g. refineries)
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2303/04 Disinfection
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 9/00 Multistage treatment of water, waste water or sewage
• CPC Class Codes: Y02W 10/37 using solar energy

Abstract

A water treatment device and methods of treating water such as cooling tower water, agricultural water, water used in the production of oil and/or gas, swimming pool water, and hot tub or spa water, are described. The water treatment device utilizes ultraviolet radiation, a magnetic field, and ozone fortified air to treat the water, typically resulting in reduced microbial contamination and reduced alkalinity in cooling tower water. Cooling tower water may consequently be run at higher cycles of concentration while reducing or eliminating deposition of minerals on cooling tower components. Swimming pool water and hot tub water treated with the water treatment device typically requires less chlorine, and chlorine levels are typically more stable than without the device.

Claims

1. A system for treating water, comprising:

a treatment chamber housing, wherein the treatment chamber housing defines an interior volume;

a treatment chamber inlet, wherein the treatment chamber inlet is operable to admit an oxygen-containing gas stream into the interior volume of the treatment chamber housing;

an ultraviolet (UV) radiation source having an axis, wherein the UV radiation source is located within the interior volume of the treatment chamber housing;

a plurality of permanent magnets, wherein the plurality of permanent magnets is located within the interior volume of the treatment chamber housing, wherein at least some permanent magnets of the plurality of permanent magnets are arrayed along a line having an axis, wherein the axis of the UV radiation source is substantially parallel with the axis of the line of permanent magnets; and

a treatment chamber outlet, wherein the treatment chamber outlet is operable to exhaust the oxygen-containing gas stream from the interior volume of the treatment chamber housing.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein adjacent permanent magnets of the plurality of permanent magnets are spaced apart by a distance greater than 0″

.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein adjacent permanent magnets of the plurality of permanent magnets are spaced apart equally from one another.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein polarities of the permanent magnets arrayed along the line are such that a first permanent magnet attracts a second permanent magnet in the line.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein polarities of the permanent magnets arrayed along the line are such that a first permanent magnet repels a second permanent magnet in the line.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a common outlet conduit connected to the treatment chamber outlet; and

an injection port connected to the common outlet, wherein the injection port is operable to exhaust the oxygen-containing gas stream into a body of water.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the axis of the UV radiation source and the axis of the line of permanent magnets are noncollinear.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein at least some of the permanent magnets of the plurality of permanent magnets are positioned proximate to at least one of a first end of the UV radiation source and a second end of the UV radiation source.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising at least one of:

an air pump, wherein an outlet of the air pump provides a flow of air to the treatment chamber inlet; and

one of a source or generator of the oxygen-containing gas stream.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein a plurality of UV radiation sources is located within the interior volume of the treatment chamber housing.

11. A system for treating water, comprising:

a treatment chamber housing, wherein the treatment chamber housing has an inner surface and defines an interior volume;

a treatment chamber inlet, wherein the treatment chamber inlet is operable to admit an oxygen-containing gas stream into the interior volume of the treatment chamber housing;

an ultraviolet (UV) radiation source having an outer surface, wherein the UV radiation source is located within the interior volume of the treatment chamber housing, wherein a first space is defined between at least part of the outer surface of the UV radiation source and the inner surface of the treatment chamber housing;

a plurality of permanent magnets, wherein each permanent magnet has an outer surface and the plurality of permanent magnets is located within the interior volume of the treatment chamber housing, wherein a second space is formed between at least part of the outer surfaces of the permanent magnets and the inner surface of the treatment chamber housing; and

a treatment chamber outlet, wherein the treatment chamber outlet is operable to exhaust the oxygen-containing gas stream from the interior volume of the treatment chamber housing.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein adjacent permanent magnets of the plurality of permanent magnets are spaced apart by a distance greater than 0″

.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein adjacent permanent magnets of the plurality of permanent magnets are spaced apart equally from one another along an axis.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein polarities of the permanent magnets arrayed along a line are such that a first permanent magnet attracts a second permanent magnet in the line.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein polarities of the permanent magnets arrayed along a line are such that a first permanent magnet repels a second permanent magnet in the line.

16. The system of claim 11, further comprising:

a common outlet conduit connected to the treatment chamber outlet; and

an injection port connected to the common outlet, wherein the injection port is operable to exhaust the oxygen-containing gas stream into a body of water.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein the UV radiation source is disposed along a first axis, and at least some of the permanent magnets of the plurality of permanent magnets are arrayed along a second axis, wherein the first axis and the second axis are noncollinear.

18. The system of claim 11, wherein at least some of the permanent magnets of the plurality of permanent magnets are positioned proximate to at least one of a first end of the UV radiation source and a second end of the UV radiation source.

19. The system of claim 11, further comprising at least one of:

an air pump, wherein an outlet of the air pump provides a flow of air to the treatment chamber inlet; and

one of a source or generator of the oxygen-containing gas stream.

20. The system of claim 11, wherein a plurality of UV radiation sources is located within the interior volume of the treatment chamber housing.