Patents Assigned to XYLEM IP MANAGEMENT S.à r.l.
  • Publication number: 20180186637
    Abstract: An ozone generator includes a high-voltage electrode and at least one counter electrode, which define an interstice in which at least one dielectric is arranged and through which a gas flows in the flow direction, the high-voltage electrode and the at least one counter electrode being provided with a connection for an electrical voltage supply to generate silent discharges, and a wire fabric being arranged in the gas flow and its density decreasing in the flow direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: XYLEM IP MANAGEMENT S.À R.L.
    Inventors: Ralf FIEKENS, Reiner FIETZEK, Manfred SALVERMOSER, Nicole BRÜGGEMANN
  • Publication number: 20180141830
    Abstract: An emitter arrangement includes a UV irradiation source, a cladding tube surrounding the UV irradiation source, and a UV-C sensor. The cladding tube has an end face on an open end. The UV-C sensor has a sensitive area, wherein the UV-C sensor is in optical connection with the end face of the cladding tube, so that the sensitive area of the UV-C sensor can detect the UV irradiation emerging from the end face of the cladding tube during the operation of the UV irradiation source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: XYLEM IP MANAGEMENT S.À R.L.
    Inventors: Friedhelm KRÜGER, Uwe KANIGOWSKI
  • Publication number: 20180011019
    Abstract: Method for determining the UV transmittance of water in a UV disinfection plant, through which water flows, wherein the UV disinfection plant has a plurality of radiator arrangements, each with a UV radiation source, a sleeve tube which surrounds the UV radiation source and which has an end face at an open end, and with a UV-C sensor which detects the UV radiation emerging from the sleeve tube without the influence of the water, and with at least one further UV sensor which is arranged at a distance from the sleeve tubes of the radiator arrangements, wherein the method includes the following steps: measuring the UV radiant power emerging from the sleeve tube; measuring an amount of the transmitted radiant power by the further UV sensor; and determining the transmittance of the water by an amount of the emerged radiant power and of the transmitted radiant power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: XYLEM IP MANAGEMENT S.À.R.L.
    Inventors: Friedhelm KRÜGER, Uwe KANIGOWSKI
  • Patent number: 9828999
    Abstract: An impeller assembly and a pump for pumping a liquid, including a pump chamber and an impeller arranged to rotate in the pump chamber, the impeller being suspended in a lower end of an axially extending drive shaft unit, wherein the lower end of the drive shaft unit is received in a cylinder-shaped recess of the impeller, wherein the impeller is displaceable back and forth in the axial direction in relation to the drive shaft unit. The impeller further includes an axially extending hole that connects the cylinder-shaped recess and the pump chamber and that the drive shaft unit includes an axially extending pin that projects from the lower end of the drive shaft unit, wherein the pin is arranged in the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: XYLEM IP MANAGEMENT S.Á R.L.
    Inventors: Patrik Andersson, Stefan Ramström
  • Publication number: 20170335265
    Abstract: A tempering device for tempering of biomass contained in a container, including at least one tempering mechanism, and at least one conveying device for conveying a mass flow of biomass in a main flow direction. The at least one conveying device includes at least one agitator, and wherein the at least one tempering mechanism is arranged in the main flow direction generated by the at least one conveying device. The at least one tempering mechanism is tubular with an inner tube and with an outer tube arranged coaxially to the inner tube. The inner tube and the outer tube form an intermediate space through which a tempering medium may flow. The tempering mechanism is oriented relative to the conveying device such that, in operation of the heating device, at least 40% of the delivery volume of the mass flow generated by the conveying device flows through the inner tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Applicant: XYLEM IP MANAGEMENT S.À R.L.
    Inventors: Wilfried Stiller, Ulrich Lüdersen, Eilert Balssen
  • Publication number: 20170297937
    Abstract: A method for managing a wastewater treatment process. The method includes at least the steps of measuring an amount of at least one nitrogen-containing substance in the influent wastewater (CN, influent), and determining an amount of phosphorous to be removed from the influent wastewater (CP, influent) based on the measured amount of at least one nitrogen-containing substance in the influent wastewater (CN, influent).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: XYLEM IP MANAGEMENT S.À R.L.
    Inventors: Alexis De Kerchove, Trevor Ghylin
  • Publication number: 20170297930
    Abstract: A method for treating wastewater by using a coagulant that aggregates a phosphorus-containing substance. The method includes executing a reaction phase having a biological treatment phase and a subsequent chemical treatment phase. The chemical treatment phase includes the first substep of mixing the wastewater while injecting a predetermined dose of the coagulant into the basin in order for the coagulant to contact and coagulate the phosphorus-containing substances. The injection of the dose of the binding compound into the basin is performed during a time period equal to or more than a time period required to accomplish two mixing turnovers of the wastewater and equal to or less than a time period required to accomplish seven mixing turnovers of the wastewater. The second substep includes mixing the wastewater in order to flocculate the coagulated substance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: XYLEM IP MANAGEMENT S.À R.L.
    Inventors: Alexis De Kerchove, Alan Merry
  • Publication number: 20170198698
    Abstract: A method for controlling a pump arrangement upon clogging. The arrangement includes a pump and a control unit. The pump includes a motor, and the control unit drives the motor. The motor during operation is associated with an operational parameter from which the motor torque may be derived. The operational parameter has a normal value PN during normal operation of the motor in a first direction. The method includes the steps of driving the motor in a first direction by the control unit, stopping the motor if a real value P of the operational parameter exceeds a predetermined clogging limit PI, driving the motor in an opposite second direction a predetermined flushing time TR by the control unit, and stopping the motor if the absolute value of the real value P of the operational parameter during the flushing time TR exceeds the absolute value of a first unfastening limit PL1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: XYLEM IP MANAGEMENT S.À.R.L.
    Inventor: Alexandera Fullemann
  • Publication number: 20170144909
    Abstract: A plant and method for controlling such a plant suitable for treatment of waste water. The plant includes a basin, a flow generating machine adapted to generate a liquid flow in the basin, equipment in the basin that effects the momentum of the liquid flow, and a control unit. The method includes the steps of: storing a predetermined relationship between the operational speed N of the flow generating machine and an operational parameter P from which the torque M of the flow generating machine may be derived, determining the operational speed N, determining a set value of the operational parameter P of the flow generating machine, determining a real value of the operational parameter P of the flow generating machine, and adjusting the operational speed N if the real value of the operational parameter P is different than the set value of the operational parameter P.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: XYLEM IP MANAGEMENT S.À.R.L.
    Inventor: Lars Uby
  • Publication number: 20170138363
    Abstract: A pump station arrangement and a method for turning off a pump configured for pumping liquid via a conduit. The pump, before being turned off, being driven at an operational frequency (FN) by a control unit. The method is characterized by the steps of, ramping down the frequency of the pump due to a turn off instruction, the terminal frequency of the ramping down being equal to the operational frequency (FN) of the pump minus at least 10 Hz and the ramping down time being at least a reflection time (TR) for the conduit in question, and the terminal frequency of the ramping down not being less than 10 Hz, and stopping the pump after the ramping down.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: XYLEM IP MANAGEMENT S.À.R.L.
    Inventors: Martin Larsson, Jürgen Mökander, Martin Zetterquist
  • Patent number: 9579611
    Abstract: An aerator assembly for diffusing a gas in a liquid, including a gas supply conduit and at least one aerator, wherein the gas supply conduit and the aerator are releasably joined to each other by an attachment. The attachment includes a flexible body and a compressor, wherein the attachment is arranged to be reversibly set in an inactive mode, in which the gas supply conduit and the at least one aerator are in mutually released mode, as well as in an active mode in which the flexible body is compressed in its axial longitudinal direction by the compressor and clamps the at least one aerator and the gas supply conduit against each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: XYLEM IP MANAGEMENT S.à r.l.
    Inventor: Anders Berfner
  • Patent number: 9556884
    Abstract: Propeller pump for pumping liquid, including: an axially extending tubular pump housing having an inner surface, an axially extending pump core having an envelope surface, at least one axial portion of the pump core enclosed in the pump housing. The pump core includes a propeller having a hub and at least one blade, and at least one guide vane that includes an upstream leading edge and a downstream trailing edge, and that in the circumferential direction includes a pressure side and a suction side. The guide vane extends between the inner surface of the pump housing and the envelope surface of the pump core. At the leading edge of the guide vane a connection angle between the suction side of the guide vane and the envelope surface of the pump core is larger than 90 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: XYLEM IP MANAGEMENT S.À.R.L.
    Inventor: Jörgen Burman
  • Patent number: 9476189
    Abstract: A pump station includes a tank and a pump unit that is lowerable into the tank. The tank has a bottom and a peripheral wall extending from the bottom, and the peripheral wall has an inlet for incoming liquid flow and an outlet for outgoing liquid flow. The pump unit includes a cross beam and a pump connected to the cross beam. The inside of the wall of the tank presents a set of axially extending guide members, which set includes at least a first guide member arranged to receive and guide a first end of the cross beam and a second guide member arranged to receive and guide a second end of the cross beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: XYLEM IP MANAGEMENT S.à r.l.
    Inventors: Jens Reimer, Per Porath
  • Publication number: 20150354196
    Abstract: A pump station includes a tank and a pump unit that is lowerable into the tank. The tank has a bottom and a peripheral wall extending from the bottom, and the peripheral wall has an inlet for incoming liquid flow and an outlet for outgoing liquid flow. The pump unit includes a cross beam and a pump connected to the cross beam. The inside of the wall of the tank presents a set of axially extending guide members, which set includes at least a first guide member arranged to receive and guide a first end of the cross beam and a second guide member arranged to receive and guide a second end of the cross beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: XYLEM IP MANAGEMENT S.à r.l.
    Inventors: Jens Reimer, Per Porath