Patents Examined by Claire Norris
  • Patent number: 11970408
    Abstract: An embodiment of this disclosure provides a liquid treatment device, including: a housing 10 having a housing body 16 and a cover body 11, wherein the housing body 16 is open at one end in a length direction and is close at the other end, the cover body 11 is matched with the one end of the housing body 16 for sealing the one end, and the cover body 11 is provided with an inlet 13 for a liquid to flow into the cover body 11; a reverse osmosis membrane unit 20 located in an accommodation space enclosed by the housing body 16 and the cover body 11, the reverse osmosis membrane unit 20 including a reverse osmosis membrane 24 for performing reverse osmosis treatment on the liquid, a collector tube 27 collects a purified liquid obtained by the reverse osmosis treatment, and a support rod 22 supporting the reverse osmosis membrane 24, wherein the reverse osmosis membrane 24 includes a liquid inlet 21 at one end in the length direction; and a filter 30 arranged in the cover body 11 and located between the liquid inl
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Canpro Water Treatment Inc.
    Inventor: Yiu Chau Chau
  • Patent number: 11951420
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a filter apparatus (1) for mechanically filtering a liquid (W). The filter apparatus (1) includes a filter chamber (5) for containing a plurality of filter elements (7) that form a filter pack (29) for filtering the liquid. The filter chamber (5) has a liquid inlet (12) and a liquid outlet (14). The filter apparatus (1) includes means for introducing air into the filter chamber (5) through one or more air inlets (25) to agitate the filter elements (7). The filter chamber (5) is substantially sealed and the air introducing means (22) may be configured to draw air into the filter chamber (5) as liquid is drained from said filter chamber (5). In certain embodiments, the filter chamber (5) may have a substantially constant profile or a substantially continuously tapered profile along its longitudinal axis (X-X). The present disclosure also relates to methods of filtering a liquid (W).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: EVOLUTION AQUA LIMITED
    Inventors: Nicholas John Jackson, Jasper Hendericus Maria Kuijper
  • Patent number: 11951426
    Abstract: A filter case that internally includes a filter element including a filtration member having a substantially cylindrical shape that filters the liquid and an inner tube having a substantially cylindrical shape provided inside the filtration member. The inner tube includes a partition plate that covers a hollow portion of a side surface. A heater provided on a bottom surface of the filter case includes a substantially rod-shaped heating unit. The heating unit is inserted into a space surrounded by the side surface and the partition plate of the inner tube via a first hole formed at a position overlapping with the hollow portion of the inner tube in the first plate that covers a lower end of the filtration member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: YAMASHIN-FILTER CORP.
    Inventor: Youichi Nodomi
  • Patent number: 11951422
    Abstract: A filtration filter having a tubular shape, defining a first opening and a second opening facing the first opening, and including a filter base that defines a plurality of through holes arranged in a square grid array. The filter base includes a continuous portion having a first set of through holes of the plurality of through holes, and a non-continuous portion having a second set of through holes of the plurality of through holes. The continuous portion extends in a first direction from the first opening of the filtration filter toward the second opening and extends in a second direction along at least a first portion of a circumference of the filtration filter orthogonal to the first direction. The non-continuous portion has the second set of through holes shifted relative to the first set of through holes of the continuous portion and extends in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shusuke Yokota, Takashi Kondo, Masaru Banju, Miwako Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 11945740
    Abstract: A surface water mitigation structure suitable for use in the storage and treatment of contaminated surface water runoff. The runoff is processed through a multi-layered filtration and treatment system wherein the first layer is one or more permeable layers that is pervious enough to allow liquid runoff to pass through it and into a porous storage medium second layer that includes one or more remediating agents, and wherein the effluent from the surface water mitigation structure can be discharged to the ground, the surface, and/or a drainage system reduced or free of contaminants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SPORTS CARE PRODUCTS, INC
    Inventors: David Komocki, Peter C. Beeson, Craig Roeper
  • Patent number: 11945739
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a testing method for testing a state of an aeration tank in a wastewater treatment facility that uses activated sludge. The testing method comprises obtaining a difference between: a sedimentation amount when a given period of time has elapsed after an activated sludge mixed liquid collected from the aeration tank and water having a higher dissolved oxygen concentration than the activated sludge mixed liquid are poured into the same container and mixed together; and a sedimentation amount when a period of time equal to the given period of time has elapsed after the activated sludge mixed liquid collected from the aeration tank and water having a lower dissolved oxygen concentration than the activated sludge mixed liquid are poured into the same container and mixed together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: GOHDA WATER TREATMENT TECHNOLOGY CO., INC.
    Inventor: Toshihisa Gohda
  • Patent number: 11945741
    Abstract: A centralized sewage treatment system for treating man camp wastewater from a plurality of oilfield well pads where each man camp has one or more septic tanks. The centralized sewage treatment system includes a centralized treatment facility having a primary treatment system and a secondary treatment system, where the centralized treatment facility is disposed centrally between the plurality of well pads and spaced apart from the well pads. The centralized treatment facility is adapted to receive wastewater from each of the plurality of well pads and treat the wastewater remote from the plurality of well pads. The primary treatment system includes one or more equalization tanks and the secondary treatment system includes a membrane treatment system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Select Water Solutions
    Inventor: Jinxuan Hu
  • Patent number: 11939567
    Abstract: Reactors, systems and processes for the production of biomass by culturing microorganisms in aqueous liquid culture medium circulating inner loop reactor which utilize nonvertical pressure reduction zones are described. Recovery and processing of the culture microorganisms to obtain products, such as proteins or hydrocarbons is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Calysta, Inc.
    Inventors: Luan Thanh Nguyen, Joshua A. Silverman, Graham Ian Aylen
  • Patent number: 11931670
    Abstract: A dryer cartridge for removal of water from a liquid is provided with a cartridge body having a receiving chamber and a cartridge body wall delimiting the receiving chamber at least in sections thereof, wherein the cartridge body wall allows the liquid to flow through. A drying agent is arranged in the receiving chamber. A connection head is provided that can fasten the dryer cartridge in an opening of a housing wall of a device for receiving the liquid. The connection head has a connection opening and the connection opening connects in fluid communication the receiving chamber to an environment of the cartridge body. A drying system is provided with a device for receiving the liquid and with the dryer cartridge that can be fastened to an opening of a housing wall of a device for receiving the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Traut, Marius Panzer
  • Patent number: 11932552
    Abstract: Strontium oxide (SrO) nanoparticle and various concentrations of chitosan (CS)-doped SrO nanocomposite were synthesized via co-precipitation method. A variety of characterization techniques including were done for characterizing and qualifying the nanocomposite. X ray powder diffraction affirmed cubic and tetragonal structure of SrO nanoparticle and CS-doped SrO nanocomposite with a decrease in crystallinity upon doping. Fourier transform infrared spectrum endorsed existing functional groups on CS/SrO surfaces while d-spacing was estimated using high resolution Transmission electron microscopes images. UV-Visible and Photoluminescence spectroscopy spectra showed an increase in band gap energies with an increase in doping concentration. Elemental composition of CS-doped SrO nanocomposite deposited with different doping concentrations was studied using Energy dispersive Spectroscopy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Alfaisal University
    Inventors: Souraya Goumri-Said, Mohammed Benali Kanoun, Salamat Ali, Junaid Haider, Ali Haider, Muhammad Ikram
  • Patent number: 11932556
    Abstract: A saturator, configured for use in a water treating apparatus, includes a chamber, in which a first flow path through which first fluid flows is formed, and a plurality of porous membranes disposed in the first flow path, a second flow path formed within the plurality of porous membranes, through which second fluid flows. The first fluid is dissolved in the second fluid, or the second fluid is dissolved in the first fluid. Accordingly, a contact area between the first fluid and the second fluid is enlarged, and thus, a dissolving speed increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: DOOSAN ENERBILITY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung Sung Park, Jin Woo Kim
  • Patent number: 11932565
    Abstract: Disclosed are modular microbial fuel cell (MFC) devices, systems and methods for treating wastewater and generating electrical energy through a bioelectrochemical waste-to-energy conversion process. In some aspects, a modular MFC system includes a wastewater pretreatment system to receive and pre-treat raw wastewater for feeding pre-treated wastewater for bioelectrochemical processing; one or more modular MFC devices to bioelectrochemically process the pre-treated wastewater by concurrently generating electrical energy and digesting organic contaminants and particulates in the wastewater to yield treated, cleaner water; and a water collection module to receive the treated water from the one or more modular MFC devices and store the treated water and/or route the treated water from the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: AQUACYCL, INC.
    Inventors: Orianna Bretschger, Sofia Malinova Babanova, Carlo Abraham Angulo Rodriguez, Jaime Octavio García Cornejo, Pedro Izarael Huerta Virgen, Ryoji Naito
  • Patent number: 11926547
    Abstract: Disclosed are floating micro-aeration unit (FMU) devices, systems and methods for biological sulfide removal from water/wastewater bodies and streams. In some aspects, a system includes a manifold structure including one or more opening to flow air out of an interior of the manifold structure; one or more support structures connected to the manifold structure, in which the one or more support structures are floatable on a surface of a fluid that includes water or a wastewater; and an air source that flows air to the manifold structure, such that the manifold structure supplies the air containing a predetermined amount of oxygen (e.g., less than 0.1 mg/L of oxygen) to oxidize sulfide of the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: AQUACYCL, INC.
    Inventors: Sofia Malinova Babanova, Orianna Bretschger, Jaime Octavio García Cornejo, Jason Daniel Jones
  • Patent number: 11919787
    Abstract: A continuous flow granular/flocculent sludge wastewater process selects for granule biomass capable of nitrogen and phosphorus removal and controls granule size and concentration of granular and flocculent sludge for optimal nutrient, organic, and solids removal in a smaller footprint. A series of biological process zones lead to a secondary clarifier. Mixed liquor sludge, preferably from an aerobic zone, goes through a classifier or separator processing flow from the aerobic zone, to the secondary clarifier. In a sidestream process that can be included a portion of sludge preferably from an aerobic zone goes through a classifier or separator to selectively produce a granular-rich effluent, and the clarifier may also have a separator to further concentrate granular biomass, most of which is cycled back to an initial multi-stage anaerobic process zone. The anaerobic zone is structured and operated to encourage growth of granules in subsequent process zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Ovivo Inc.
    Inventors: Hiren Trivedi, John Vorwaller, Tyson Beaman, Sophia Baker, Sergio Pino-Jelcic, David Stensel
  • Patent number: 11919790
    Abstract: An anaerobic-AO-SACR combined advanced nitrogen removal system for high ammonia-nitrogen wastewater, in which high ammonia-nitrogen wastewater first enters an anaerobic reactor to remove most of organic matters from the wastewater, effluent water enters an AO reactor for nitrogen removal by pre-denitrification in an anoxic zone and for removal of the remaining organic matters and nitrification of ammonia nitrogen in an aerobic zone, and then the effluent water enters an intermediate pool. Meanwhile, under the control of a water quality testing device and a PLC controller, a part of raw water is introduced into the intermediate pool to adjust the carbon nitrogen ratio of the wastewater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SHANDONG JIANZHU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kai Wang, Daoji Wu, Fengxun Tan, Congwei Luo, Xiaoxiang Cheng, Hongye Li, Yu Tian
  • Patent number: 11912592
    Abstract: A continuous flow granular/flocculent sludge wastewater process selects for granule biomass capable of nitrogen and phosphorus removal and controls granule size and concentration of granular and flocculent sludge for optimal nutrient, organic, and solids removal in a smaller footprint. A series of biological process zones lead to a secondary clarifier. Mixed liquor sludge, preferably from an aerobic zone, goes through a classifier or separator processing flow from the aerobic zone, to the secondary clarifier. In a sidestream process that can be included a portion of sludge preferably from an aerobic zone goes through a classifier or separator to selectively produce a granular-rich effluent, and the clarifier may also have a separator to further concentrate granular biomass, most of which is cycled back to an initial multi-stage anaerobic process zone. The anaerobic zone is structured and operated to encourage growth of granules in subsequent process zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Ovivo Inc.
    Inventors: Hiren Trivedi, John Vorwaller, Tyson Beaman, Sophia Baker, Sergio Pino-Jelcic, David Stensel
  • Patent number: 11912739
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods of performing chromatography with gamma-irradiated chromatography resin that include providing a chromatography column including a gamma-irradiated chromatography resin; performing a first cycle of chromatography through the column, where the cycle includes exposing the chromatography resin to a denaturing buffer; and performing at least one additional cycle of chromatography through the column. Also provided are integrated, closed or substantially closed, and continuous processes for manufacturing of a recombinant protein that include the use of at least one chromatography column including gamma-irradiated chromatography resin, where the gamma-irradiated chromatography resin is exposed to denaturing buffer during each cycle in the process, and reduced bioburden buffer is used in the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Genzyme Corporation
    Inventors: Rahul Godawat, Veena Warikoo, Rohan Patil, Konstantin Konstantinov, Venkat Kishore Ryakala, Mahsa Rohani
  • Patent number: 11912978
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for flow-through separation of paramagnetic particle-bound cells in a cell suspension containing both bound and unbound cells as well as systems and methods for removing paramagnetic particles from paramagnetic particle-bound cells or from a cell suspension with unbound cells. It further relates to a flow-through magnetic separation/debeading module and a flow-through spinning membrane debeading module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Fabio Fachin, Rodney Rietze, Michael R. Greene, Lan Cao
  • Patent number: 11905192
    Abstract: A method for collaborative optimization control method for organic nitrogen and inorganic nitrogen in a denitrification process is provided. The method includes: establishing ASM-mDON-DIN models for simultaneous simulation of microbial dissolved organic nitrogen (mDON) and inorganic nitrogen (DIN) in denitrification processes; and selecting a corresponding ASM-mDON-DIN model according to a set carbon/nitrogen ratio to collaboratively optimize the concentration values of mDON and DIN in the effluent in the denitrification process, to obtain best process operation parameter values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NANJING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Haidong Hu, Xian Cui, Kewei Liao, Lili Ding, Bing Wu, Hongqiang Ren
  • Patent number: 11905672
    Abstract: A sea surface oil recovery device is provided, which comprises a storage cabin, an oil-water separation system and an oil-water collection system arranged on the storage cabin. The storage cabin is provided with an oil storage cabin, a water storage cabin, a separation cabin and a gas storage cabin which are separated from each other, and the storage cabin is provided with a water pipe for connecting the water storage cabin with the outside of the storage cabin. The oil-water separation system comprises a molecular semipermeable membrane for separating oil and water and a water suction pipe, wherein the molecular semipermeable membrane is arranged between the separation cabin and the water storage tank and connects the separation cabin with the water storage tank; the water suction pipe is arranged between the oil storage cabin and the separation cabin and connects the oil storage tank with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: CHANGZHOU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hong Ji, Yinhan Zhao, Ke Yang, Zhixiang Xing, Juncheng Jiang, Jie Guo, Ting Wang, Yuchen Liu, Renjie Lu