Patent ID: 7361270
Filing Date: 2008-04-22
Classification: C02F

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for treating water through precipitation of dissolved contaminates, said apparatus comprising: a vessel for receiving water for treatment, said vessel including an inlet adapted for communication with a water source for receiving a flow of water through an inlet wall of said vessel, and to an outlet provided in an outlet wall of said vessel for discharging water from said vessel subsequent to treatment, a plurality of elongated air diffusers disposed within said vessel, spaced from one another, each of said diffusers having an air-supply aperture at one end thereof spaced about said inlet, and passing through said inlet wall, wherein each of said diffusers terminates substantially at said outlet wall an air delivery source communicating with said diffusers for delivering air thereto at said apertures under sufficient pressure to cause said diffusers to emit fine air bubbles into water under treatment in said vessel, in sufficient velocity and volume to substantially agitate the water flowing through said vessel, thereby highly oxygenating the water and causing the oxidation and precipitation of certain impurities to form precipitates which exit the vessel with the treated water through said outlet.