Liquid bubble separator of circulating water system

• US 9,451,759 B2
• Filed: 10/27/2014
• Issued: 09/27/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Chi-Tse Kuo
• Original Assignee: Chi-Tse Kuo
• Inventors: Kuo, Chi-Tse
• Primary Examiner(s): Prince, Fred
• Application Number:
  US14/524,112
• Publication Number:
  US 20160113249A1
• Time in Patent Office: 701 Days
• Field of Search: 210/167.26, 210/198.1, 210/760, 210/905, 119/261, 119/263
• 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: C02F 1/24 by flotation C02F1/465 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/44 by dialysis, osmosis or reverse osmosis general membrane separation processes B01D61/00, membrane modules B01D63/00, electrodialysis C02F1/4693, combination of membrane modules and bioreactors C02F3/1268
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/78 with ozone C02F1/4672 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2103/20 from animal husbandry
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2103/22 from the processing of animals, e.g. poultry, fish, or parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2201/002 Construction details of the apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2303/04 Disinfection
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 3/02 Aerobic processes

Abstract

A liquid bubble separator of a circulating water system contains: a cylindrical tank, a pump, a bubble collection tank, and at least one micro bubble generating unit. The cylindrical tank included a water chamber defined by an inner wall, an inlet pipe, an outlet pipe, at least one air orifice, and a bubble discharging hole. The pump is coupled with the inlet pipe to pump treated water into the inlet pipe via the nitrification tank. The bubble collection tank is mounted on one side of the cylindrical tank and includes a collecting tube. Each micro bubble generating unit is disposed in the water chamber and includes a body, a first mixing room, an inlet, at least one air tube coupling with the at least one air orifice and corresponding to the inlet, and a plurality of backflow apertures formed around the body and communicating with the first mixing room.

Claims

1. A liquid bubble separator of a circulating water system, a circulating water system overflowing aquaculture water in an aquaculture tank toward a nitrification tank with nitrosomonas to cause nitrification, and a membrane filtration unit separating solids in the aquaculture water, thereafter the aquaculture water being pumped back to the aquaculture tank so as to recycle the aquaculture water, the liquid bubble separator being fixed on one side of the membrane filtration unit and comprising:

a cylindrical tank including a water chamber defined by an inner wall, an inlet pipe and an outlet pipe which are inserted into the water chamber, at least one air orifice, and a bubble discharging hole;

a pump coupled with the inlet pipe to pump treated water into the inlet pipe of the cylindrical tank via the nitrification tank;

a bubble collection tank mounted on one side of the cylindrical tank and including a collecting tube joined with the bubble discharging hole;

at least one micro bubble generating unit disposed in the water chamber of the cylindrical tank, and each of the at least one micro bubble generating unit including a body, a first mixing room formed in the body, an inlet connecting with the inlet pipe and communicating with the first mixing room, at least one air tube coupling with the at least one air orifice and corresponding to the inlet, and a plurality of backflow apertures formed around a peripheral side of the body and communicating with the first mixing room, such that when liquids are pumped into the first mixing room via the inlet, air is guided from one of the at least one air tube and is mixed with the liquids in the first mixing room to generate mixed liquids with micro bubbles, and the mixed liquids overflow to the water chamber of the cylindrical tank from the plurality of backflow apertures so that mucus, baits, excrements, suspended substances in the mixed liquids gather on the micro bubbles and are pushed upwardly, and then they flow to the bubble collection tank through the collecting tube, the mixed liquids separate from the micro bubbles and flow downwardly into the aquaculture tank via the outlet pipe of the cylindrical tank.

2. The liquid bubble separator of the circulating water system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the body of each micro bubble generating unit has a hollowly inner housing and a first outer housing between which is defined the first mixing room, and the inner housing has the inlet defined on one side thereof and has a first spout formed on a first end thereof to spray the treated water toward the first mixing room and corresponding to the one of the at least one air tube.

3. The liquid bubble separator of the circulating water system as claimed in claim 2, further comprising a fixing mount fixed above the first spout of the inner housing, and the fixing mount having a nozzle corresponding to the first spout, plural ribs radially extending outwardly from an outer peripheral side of the nozzle, and a plurality of locking portions connecting with distal ends of the plural ribs, wherein plural connecting seats are arranged around an outer peripheral side of the first spout, and the plurality of locking portions of the fixing mount are locked on the plural connecting seats.

4. The liquid bubble separator of the circulating water system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the body also has a second outer housing covered on a second end of the inner casing opposite to the first end of the inner casing, and between the inner housing and the second outer housing is defined a second mixing room, the inlet is formed on the one side of the inner housing, the inner housing also has a second spout defined on the second end thereof to spray the treated water toward the second mixing room and corresponding to the other of the at least one air tube.

5. The liquid bubble separator of the circulating water system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a fitting tube fitted with the outlet pipe of the cylindrical tank, and the outlet pipe is formed in an inverted L shape, a height of an outflow end of the outlet pipe relative to the outlet is changed by adjusting the fitting tube.

6. The liquid bubble separator of the circulating water system as claimed in claim 1, wherein a height of the outlet pipe is lower than that of the bubble discharging hole.

7. The liquid bubble separator of the circulating water system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising an ozone generating unit mounted outside the cylindrical tank and having an ozone exit which corresponds to one of the at least one air orifice, such that ozone is fed into the water chamber to sterilize bacteria.

8. A liquid bubble separator of a circulating water system being applied to treat aquaculture water in an aquaculture tank and being mounted beside one side of the aquaculture tank to remove bubbles and mucus in the aquaculture water, and after separating the bubbles in the aquaculture water, the aquaculture water overflowing toward a nitrification tank with nitrosomonas to cause nitrification, then a membrane filtration unit separating solids in the aquaculture water, the liquid bubble separator comprising:

a cylindrical tank including a water chamber defined by an inner wall, an inlet pipe and an outlet pipe which are inserted into the water chamber, at least one air orifice, and a bubble discharging hole;

a pump coupled with the inlet pipe to pump treated water into the inlet pipe of the cylindrical tank via the nitrification tank;

a bubble collection tank mounted on one side of the cylindrical tank and including a collecting tube joined with the bubble discharging hole;

at least one micro bubble generating unit disposed in the water chamber of the cylindrical tank, and each of the at least one micro bubble generating unit including a body, a first mixing room formed in the body, an inlet connecting with the inlet pipe and communicating with the first mixing room, at least one air tube coupling with the at least one air orifice and corresponding to the inlet, and a plurality of backflow apertures formed around a peripheral side of the body and communicating with the first mixing room, such that when liquids are pumped into the first mixing room via the inlet, air is guided from one of the at least one air tube and is mixed with the liquids in the first mixing room to generate mixed liquids with micro bubbles, and the mixed liquids overflow to the water chamber of the cylindrical tank from the plurality of backflow apertures so that mucus, baits, excrements, suspended substances in the mixed liquids gather on the micro bubbles and are pushed upwardly, and then they flow to the bubble collection tank through the collecting tube, the mixed liquids separate from the micro bubbles and flow downwardly into the aquaculture tank via the outlet pipe of the cylindrical tank.

9. The liquid bubble separator of the circulating water system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the body of each micro bubble generating unit has a hollowly inner housing and a first outer housing between which is defined the first mixing room, and the inner housing has the inlet defined on one side thereof and has a first spout formed on a first end thereof to spray the treated water toward the first mixing room and corresponding to the one of the at least one air tube.

10. The liquid bubble separator of the circulating water system as claimed in claim 9, further comprising a fixing mount fixed above the first spout of the inner housing, and the fixing mount having a nozzle corresponding to the first spout, plural ribs radially extending outwardly from an outer peripheral side of the nozzle, and a plurality of locking portions connecting with distal ends of the plural ribs, wherein plural connecting seats are arranged around an outer peripheral side of the first spout, and the plurality of locking portions of the fixing mount are locked on the plural connecting seats.

11. The liquid bubble separator of the circulating water system as claimed in claim 9, wherein the body also has a second outer housing covered on a second end of the inner casing opposite to the first end of the inner casing, and between the inner housing and the second outer housing is defined a second mixing room, the inlet is formed on the one side of the inner housing, the inner housing also has a second spout defined on the second end thereof to spray the treated water toward the second mixing room and corresponding to the other of the at least one air tube.

12. The liquid bubble separator of the circulating water system as claimed in claim 8, further comprising a fitting tube fitted with the outlet pipe of the cylindrical tank, and the outlet pipe is formed in an inverted L shape, a height of an outflow end of the outlet pipe relative to the outlet is changed by adjusting the fitting tube.

13. The liquid bubble separator of the circulating water system as claimed in claim 8, wherein a height of the outlet pipe is lower than that of the bubble discharging hole.

14. The liquid bubble separator of the circulating water system as claimed in claim 8, further comprising an ozone generating unit mounted outside the cylindrical tank and having an ozone exit which corresponds to one of the at least one air orifice, such that ozone is fed into the water chamber to sterilize bacteria.