Water treatment device

• US 10,138,147 B2
• Filed: 07/17/2013
• Issued: 11/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd. (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd. (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Satou, Jun, Okino, Susumu, Ukai, Nobuyuki, Suzuki, Hideo, Nakashoji, Hiroshi, Yoshioka, Shigeru, Sakurai, Hideaki, Ogawa, Naoki
• Primary Examiner(s): Fortuna, Ana M
• Application Number:
  US14/899,375
• Publication Number:
  US 20160145130A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,959 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2311/04 Specific process operations in the feed stream; Feed pretreatment
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2311/2665 Aeration other than for cleaning purposes
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2311/2688 Biological processes
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2315/06 Submerged-type; Immersion type
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2321/185 Aeration
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 65/08 Prevention of membrane fouling or of concentration polarisation
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2303/16 Regeneration of sorbents, filters
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 3/1273 Submerged membrane bioreactors
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 3/1294 "Venturi" aeration means
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 3/208 Membrane aeration C02F3/201 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 3/22 using circulation pipes
• CPC Class Codes: Y02W 10/10 Biological treatment of water, waste water, or sewage

Abstract

A water treatment device (1) is provided with: a biological treatment tank (2) for storing a stored liquid (5); a pump (7) for generating a circulating liquid flow formed of the stored liquid (5); a gas-liquid two-phase flow generation device (8) for using the circulating liquid flow to suction a gas containing oxygen, whereby a gas-liquid two-phase flow in which the gas is dispersed in the circulating liquid flow is generated; and a nozzle (12) for injecting the gas-liquid two-phase flow into the biological treatment tank (2). Such a water treatment device (1) is capable of adequately circulating the stored liquid (5) in the biological treatment tank (2), adequately aerating the stored liquid (5), and adequately treating the stored liquid (5).

Claims

1. A water treatment device, comprising:

a biological treatment tank configured to store a liquid containing organisms that decompose contaminants, wherein the biological treatment tank includes;

a dispersed bacteria treatment tank filled with microorganism immobilizing carriers and configured to store a dispersed bacteria mixture having non-agglomerative bacteria that decompose dispersed contaminants;

an activated sludge treatment tank configured to store an activated sludge mixture having suspended activated sludge that decomposes the dispersed bacteria;

a membrane immersed in the activated sludge treatment tank; and

a screen including a plurality of holes or gaps which does not allow passage of the microorganism immobilizing carriers therethrough, being disposed to interpose between a storage space of the dispersed bacteria treatment tank and a storage space of the activated sludge treatment tank, and configured to allow the dispersed bacteria mixture to be supplied to the activated sludge mixture;

a circulating liquid pipe connected to a bottom portion of the storage space of the dispersed bacteria treatment tank that stores the dispersed bacteria mixture;

a pump connected to the circulating liquid pipe and configured to generate a circulating liquid flow from the dispersed bacteria mixture in the dispersed bacteria treatment tank;

a gas-liquid two-phase flow generation device connected to the pump and configured to use the circulating liquid flow to suction a gas containing oxygen and thus generate a gas-liquid two-phase flow of the circulating liquid having the gas dispersed therein;

a nozzle connected to the gas-liquid two-phase flow generation device, being disposed in the bottom portion of the storage space of the dispersed bacteria treatment tank, and configured to inject the gas-liquid two-phase flow into the dispersed bacteria treatment tank; and

a discharge path connected to the storage space of the activated sludge treatment tank that stores the activated sludge mixture and configured to discharge the activated sludge mixture from the activated sludge treatment tank.

2. The water treatment device according to claim 1, wherein the activated sludge treatment tank further comprises a gas-liquid two-phase flow generation device comprising a nozzle connected to a gas-liquid two-phase flow generation device, being disposed in a bottom portion of the storage space of the activated sludge treatment tank, and configured to inject the gas-liquid two-phase flow into the activated sludge treatment tank;

wherein the gas-liquid two-phase generation device is connected to receive liquid from the recirculation pipe in the dispersed bacteria treatment tank, to suction a gas containing oxygen and thus generate the two-phase flow entering the activated sludge treatment tank.