Patent ID: 7513997
Filing Date: 2009-04-07
Classification: C02F,Y02W

Abstract:
1. A recirculating wastewater evapotranspiration and disinfection system, comprising: a watertight storage tank containing a quantity of wastewater; a planter bed comprising unsaturated media, living plants, and aerobic and facultative microorganisms surrounded by an environmental atmosphere, the living plants and microorganisms forming a rhizosphere in the media; a means for irrigating the rhizosphere; a means for aerating the wastewater intermediate the watertight storage tank and the means for irrigating; as means for distributing and recycling the wastewater from the watertight storage tank through the means for aerating to the means for irrigating and returning any excess drained therefrom to the storage tank, wherein the wastewater is ultimately consumed by exhaustive recycling through the rhizosphere and the environmental atmosphere to produce plant mass and vaporous discharge through transpiration, evaporation and microorganism action.