Patent ID: 8163173
Filing Date: 2012-04-24
Classification: C02F

Abstract:
1. A system for treating water from a water source, said system comprising: a first tank into which water from the water source is delivered; an ozonation apparatus engaged with said first tank for introducing ozone into the water in said first tank, at least a portion of which ozone reacts with impurities in the water to form precipitates in said first tank, at least some of the precipitates settling in said first tank, said ozonation apparatus including an ozone generator and an ozonation pump operably interconnected by a venturi, said ozonation pump being supported within said first tank upon an elevated surface of an ozonation pump support member above a water level at which most of the precipitants formed in said first tank have settled below; a second tank communicably connected to said first tank by a gravity flow conduit for transmitting ozonated water from said first tank to said second tank under the force of gravity, said second tank allowing precipitates remaining in the water to either float or settle in respective layers of water in said second tank and further permitting previously unreacted ozone to dissipate from the water in said second tank; a supply pump immersed within the water in said second tank and supported in said second tank upon an elevated surface of a supply pump support member at a level for drawing relatively clean, treated water disposed in said second tank intermediate the respective layers of water containing settled and floating precipitates and pumping the treated water to a destination communicably connected to said supply pump and requiring treated water; a holding tank for communicably interconnecting said supply pump and the destination requiring treated water; a pressure switch operably connected to said holding tank for activating said supply pump when pressure in said holding tank falls below a predetermined level and deactivating said supply pump when pressure in said holding tank rises to said predetermined level; a controller for activating and deactivating said ozonation apparatus whereby ozone is introduced into the water in said first tank when said ozonation apparatus is activated; and