Patent ID: 6540920
Filing Date: 2003-04-01
Classification: C02F,Y02W

Abstract:
A treatment assembly for treating sewage wastewater effluent, comprising:(a) an aerobic filter having a plurality of water-permeable, vertically oriented textile sheets, an effluent inlet, a spray mechanism connected to said inlet and located proximate a top of said textile sheets, and a filtrate outlet; (b) each of said vertically oriented textile sheets having a respective vertically oriented opposing sheet horizontally spaced apart therefrom defining one of a plurality of vertically oriented gaps separating each of the textile sheets from the respective opposing sheet, each said textile sheet and opposing sheet being horizontally spaced sufficiently close together at a respective one of said gaps to cause flow of said effluent from said spray mechanism primarily into each of said textile sheets and downward within each of said textile sheets rather than downward through said gaps.