Patents Examined by Ekandra S. Miller-Cruz
  • Patent number: 11833470
    Abstract: A single-stage or multi-stage biological odor control treatment system for the removal of target vapor compounds from a contaminated air stream consisting of a first stage (onsite non-potable water treatment) where raw collection system non-potable water is extracted from the sewer collection system, screened and sprayed over a media bed where it is treated to secondary effluent water quality and is collected in a tank. The onsite non-potable water treatment system effluent is then pumped to the biological odor control system. This onsite non-potable water treatment system effluent is used for irrigating either a single media bed, or multiple media beds, which require continuous moisture and a source of nutrients. The microorganisms use the odorous compounds in the foul air stream as a food source. Treated air is then discharged to the atmosphere. The odor control treatment system drain water is then returned into the source containment collection point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Anua International LLC
    Inventors: Colin Bishop, Michael Busch, M. Sean McGuigan
  • Patent number: 11834357
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a water treatment system including a first cavitation device coupled to a wastewater source via one or more cavitation device lines, a filter coupled to the first cavitation device via one or more filter lines, an equalizing tank coupled to the filter via one or more equalizing tank lines, a second cavitation device coupled to the equalizing tank via one or more second cavitation device lines where a flow from the equalizing tank which enters the second cavitation device is modified and reenters the equalizing tank, a first booster pump coupled to the equalizing tank via one or more first boost pump lines, a contact tank coupled to the first booster pump via one or more contact tank lines, a carbon filtration device coupled to the contact tank, a biological treatment system coupled to the carbon filtration device via one or more biological treatment system lines, a second booster pump coupled to the biological treatment system via one or more second booster pump lines, a po
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Kelsey, Stephen Mann, Robert Kelsey, Stephen McKenzie
  • Patent number: 11827540
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid dispensing device. The liquid dispensing device includes an internal member coupled to a sink and a nozzle. A sterilized liquid module is provided in the internal member and includes a casing having an inner space to receive the liquid, and at least one electrode positioned parallel to a longitudinal direction of the casing, installed in the inner space of the casing, and configured to generate the sterilized liquid through electrolysis of liquid in the inner space of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jewook Jeon, Dongkoo Han, Jingyu Ji, Sangnam Kim, Jongwon Yun, Junki Yeo, Youngseok Kim
  • Patent number: 11827549
    Abstract: A wastewater treatment system is a septic tank adjacent to an aeration chamber. The aeration chamber has a tertiary baffle and a circular current of fluid wherein the circular current produces a down flow current of liquid past the tertiary baffle. This current prevents suspended particles from passing through the tertiary baffle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Inventors: David Mark Lowe, Richard D. Eldredge
  • Patent number: 11828081
    Abstract: A floating water jet for spraying chlorinated water at water surface of a pool is disclosed herein. The floating water jet includes a cylindrical body having a closed end and an open end, an internal wall within the cylindrical body defining a sealed air chamber within the cylindrical body adjacent the closed end, the sealed chamber providing buoyancy to the cylindrical body such that the cylindrical body floats on the water surface of the pool with a longitudinal axis of the cylindrical body being parallel to the water surface. An internal chamber is provided within the cylindrical body between the open end and the internal wall for receiving the chlorinated water. An end wall is sealed to the open end, the end wall including a central inlet opening adapted for connection to an outlet end of a floating pool hose, and a plurality of outlet openings in the end wall arranged concentrically about the central opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Inventor: Jeffrey Lane
  • Patent number: 11827550
    Abstract: A method of operating a sequencing batch reactor process includes introducing wastewater to be treated into the sequencing batch reactor and subjecting the wastewater to treatment in the sequencing batch reactor in an aerated anoxic mode in in which a quantity of oxygen is supplied at a level insufficient to meet a biological oxygen demand of the wastewater, but sufficient to cause simultaneous nitrification and denitrification reactions to occur in the wastewater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Evoqua Water Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Brandon Martin Olson
  • Patent number: 11805762
    Abstract: There is provided processes and uses of an inline saturator for maintaining fish in a cage in an open body of water, the process comprising: restricting movement of water into and out of a part of the cage and forming a portion of water within the part of the cage. The process also includes injecting oxygenated water produced by an inline saturator into the portion of water to raise a dissolved oxygen level and to lower a dissolved nitrogen gas level therein. A treatment process is also provided that includes the steps noted above and further including introducing a medicinal substance into the oxygenated water or the portion of the body of water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: GIS Gas Infusion Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Mike Beattie, David Glassford
  • Patent number: 11807562
    Abstract: An activated sludge process for the treatment of municipal wastewater, particularly applicable to oxidation ditch activated sludge treatment systems which utilize a conventional race track or continuous loop reactor basin configuration. The process removes phosphorus and nitrogen from an activated sludge wastewater treatment system, with an anoxic cycle followed by an aerobic cycle, and followed by a surface wasting cycle until a low flow diurnal period is reached in a diurnal or twenty-four hour period. Automated microprocessor control system using “oxidation-reduction potential” (ORP) and “dissolved oxygen” (DO) as process variable inputs automate aerated and anoxic cycles to optimize phosphorus and nitrogen removal using the available carbon in the influent wastewater resulting in an energy efficient dynamic dissolved oxygen control during the aerated periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: DENTRO-P, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas E. Coleman
  • Patent number: 11802057
    Abstract: A sensor system for swimming pools and spas is detailed herein. The sensor system can include one or more sensors positioned in a sensor housing located within a cavity of a pipe and in-line with an inlet and an outlet of the pipe. The sensor housing can divert a portion of water flowing through the cavity to an interior of the sensor housing and to an area around the sensors and maintain at least some of the diverted water in the area around the sensors even if the water is not flowing through or is drained from the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: ZODIAC POOL SYSTEMS LLC
    Inventors: Hwa Heng, Ricky Lo, Anthony Levacque
  • Patent number: 11802067
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for nitrogen gas sparging assisted biological treatment of water. In one example, a denitrification system may include a media-packed column or bed through which nitrogen gas is sparged to remove dissolved oxygen from water. In some examples, an external carbon source and electron donor may be added to the media-packed column or bed to facilitate biological removal of the nitrate and/or other contaminants from the water. In this way, by relying on the sparged nitrogen gas to remove the dissolved oxygen, less of the external carbon source and electron donor may be employed as compared to denitrification systems not assisted by nitrogen gas sparging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE U.S. EPA
    Inventors: Asher Keithley, Daniel Williams, Nicholas Dugan, Darren Lytle
  • Patent number: 11795086
    Abstract: A combined waste water and gas treatment system for efficiently decarbonizing and removing nitrogen, including a water feeding pump, a carbon capture device, an intermediate water tank, and an anaerobic ammonium oxidation reactor connected in sequence through pipelines, where the carbon capture device includes an anode chamber and a cathode chamber; an anode plate is arranged in the anode chamber; a cathode plate is arranged in the cathode chamber; a gas inlet pipe is further arranged at the cathode chamber; an air compressor is connected with the gas inlet pipe; a gas outlet pipe is arranged at a top of the carbon capture device; a water outlet in the intermediate water tank is fluidly communicated with a bottom end of the anaerobic ammonium oxidation reactor through a second water inlet pipe; the gas outlet pipe is fluidly communicated with the second water inlet pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Inventors: Hong Yao, Lu Lu, Sheng Tian
  • Patent number: 11795088
    Abstract: The present invention describes an automated, transportable and energy-efficient with a hybrid power capacity wastewater treatment facility that allows for the disinfection of contaminated sanitation wastewater in order to preserve the environment and provide a greater availability of this resource and its reuse. The facility described in the present invention allows to carry out a process for water treatment in five stages based in equalization, oxidation sedimentation, disinfection and filtration. Moreover, it has a photovoltaic feeding system and a night lighting system that allows the operation of the facility in a hybrid way during the day and the night, as well as a structure that allows its easy transportation. Finally, the facility has an automated system comprised by a control panel that allows to manage and monitor every operational condition of it, that integrates and sends all processed programmable information to a programmable logic controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: GALIPER INDUSTRIAL SA DE CV
    Inventors: Jaime Quintanilla Ayache, Jesus Damian Garcia Delgado, Josue Quintanilla Ayache, Marcelo Javier Comarin
  • Patent number: 11794133
    Abstract: A tank system and methods of use for extracting sand and particulates from effluents, fluids, liquids, and muds are disclosed. The system uses pressure and cyclonic fluid dynamic based methods to extract, separate, weigh, and dump sand and particulates. The system comprises sand or particulate filtration or collection baskets that are hydraulically operated and scales that weigh the sand after separation from the fluidic component, prior to dumping. After separating the sands, the fluid is collected in a reservoir tank where it can be transported or removed from the site or otherwise disposed of as a liquid product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: PEX ENERGY SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Chase Claxton, Susannah Claxton
  • Patent number: 11795083
    Abstract: A method for the creation of structured water in a laboratory or commercial setting may be bottled and distributed for human consumption. The method creates structured water that maintains its specific matrix structure for longer than structured water that is formed naturally (signal-locked water). The method creates signal-locked water by rendering the water prepared with a magnetic field, adding additives, exposing it to electromagnetic radiation, and adding a concentrate. The signal-locked water may be bottled and distributed for purchase and consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Vita Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Oliver S. Laurence, Frederick M. Graham, Jr., Lee H. Lorenzen
  • Patent number: 11795068
    Abstract: A water purification apparatus and a water purification method capable of effectively using a layered double hydroxide and easily being applied are described. A water purification apparatus for removing a polluted substance from polluted water includes a solid-liquid separator that separates the polluted water and a solid material from each other, and a polluted substance remover that removes, by a layered double hydroxide, the polluted substance contained in the polluted water separated by the solid-liquid separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: JDC Corporation
    Inventors: Mutsuhiro Ohno, Yutaka Kobayashi, Takeo Asakura
  • Patent number: 11795073
    Abstract: An electrocoagulation device is provided. An electrocoagulation device comprises: a housing having an inner space; a containing member arranged in the inner space; at least two electrode plates arranged outside the containing member so as to face each other such that power supplied from the outside is applied thereto; and a plurality of conductive lumps having a predetermined volume, which are contained in the containing member so as to contact each other and to form pores through which raw water can pass, wherein contaminants included in the raw water are coagulated through electrocoagulation as the same pass through the pores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: AMOGREENTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung Gu Han, Jin Lee
  • Patent number: 11795717
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are fluid chemistry systems comprising fluid chemistry manifolds. The fluid chemistry manifolds can comprise an inlet, two flow paths in fluid communication with the inlet, one or more probe apertures, and an outlet in fluid communication with the two flow paths. The one or more probe apertures can be configured to receive at least a portion of a corresponding fluid chemistry probe. The probe can be configured to detachably attach to the one or more probe apertures and fluidly communicate with the flow path. The probe can include one or more of a pH sensor, an oxidation reduction potential (ORP) sensor, and a total dissolved solids (TDS) sensor. The systems can also comprise an adjustable valve configured to selectively permit a predetermined amount of fluid flow through the at least one of the two flow paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Rheem Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Jorge Miguel Gamboa Revilla, Sergio Montalgo Salazar, Satya Kiran Gullapalli, Kaela Malaki
  • Patent number: 11795803
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for removing hydrocarbons from produced water, comprising: (i) separating produced water from a hydrocarbon and water mixture extracted from a subterranean formation: (ii) contacting said produced water with multivalent metal cations to produce a mixture of produced water and multivalent metal cations; and (iii) removing hydrocarbons from said mixture in a hydrocyclone and/or a compact flotation unit to give treated produced water, wherein the concentration of hydrocarbons in said produced water is less than 10% wt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: EQUINOR ENERGY AS
    Inventors: Jens Bragdø Smith, Karen Anne Gudbrandsen, Svein Viggo Aanesen, Anne Finborud
  • Patent number: 11795084
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to denitrification of water using bacteria. A method of denitrification of water includes deoxygenated water including a water-soluble form of nitrogen. The method includes exposing the deoxygenated water to denitrifying bacteria to convert the water-soluble form of nitrogen in the water to nitrogen gas that is removed and to form a denitrified water. The method also includes reoxygenating the denitrified water. Denitrifying bacterial substrates and methods of making the same are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: NuQuatic, LLC
    Inventors: Donald A. Luke, Ryan Eugene Dickinson, Janie Michelle Hinson
  • Patent number: 11795079
    Abstract: The invention provides a dynamic membrane reactor with function of nitrogen and phosphorus removal and an operation method thereof, and comprises a biological treatment system, a dynamic membrane loading system and an automatic system. The operation method comprises the following steps. (1) Before the formation of dynamic membrane, a porous filter for phosphorus removal is used as a cathode, a conductive precision filter screen is used as an anode, and aerobic denitrifying bacteria are inoculated into the dynamic membrane reactor under certain constant current density, hydraulic retention time and flux. (2) After the dynamic membrane is formed, the porous filter for phosphorus removal is used as the anode, the conductive precision filter screen is used as the cathode. And intermittent aeration is started at the anode under certain constant current density. (3) When the transmembrane pressure difference exceeds a certain range, hydraulic backwashing is performed under certain constant current density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG GONSHANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Huajun Feng, Meizhen Wang, Haibo Tao, Miao Lv, Yuqi Chen, Yingfeng Xu