Patent ID: 7686966
Filing Date: 2010-03-30
Classification: B01D,B08B,C02F

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for continuously recycling water used in a tank cleaning process, the apparatus comprising: a dirty water compartment into which an inlet directs slop water containing solids; wherein solids in the slop water can settle within the dirty water compartment and be released through a solids outlet, thereby resulting in separated water; a clean water compartment; a weir separating the dirty water compartment from the clean water compartment; wherein the weir lets the separated water be communicated from the dirty water compartment to the clean water compartment when a predetermined volume of slop water is communicated to the dirty water compartment; an outlet for communicating the separated water from the dirty water compartment to an external location to have additional solids removed from the separated water just before the separated water enters the clean water compartment; a clean water inlet communicating the separated water from which additional solids have been removed from the external location to the clean water compartment; and a clean water outlet communicating clean water from the clean water compartment.