Patent ID: 7166222

Claim:
A method for the biological cleaning of waste water in which the waste water and gas are supplied to a reaction vessel containing micro organisms through a two-component nozzle which consists exclusively of two steady mutually concentric tubes, said nozzle having no additional supply elements and projecting into the reaction vessel and into the waste water therein along its vertical axis, wherein the internally located gas-conveying inner tube of the two-component nozzle is surrounded through the intermediary of a free annular gap by the outer tube conveying the waste water which is delivered by means of a pump, and in which the mixture of waste water and gas in the reaction vessel is moved in circulatory manner, characterized in that the inner gas-conveying tube ( 9 ) of the two-component nozzle ( 2 ), to which the gas is supplied by means of a blower, ends within the outer waste-water-conveying tube ( 8 ) at a spacing (h) from the outlet opening ( 3 ) thereof which is greater by at least a factor of “5” than the internal diameter (d F ) of the outer tube ( 8 ) in the vicinity of the outlet opening ( 3 ), and in that the outlet opening ( 3 ) of the outer tube ( 8 ) and thus the two-component nozzle ( 2 ) is spaced from the base ( 4 ) of the reaction vessel ( 1 ), which contains no further fittings other than the two-component nozzle ( 2 ), by a distance (A) which is greater than half the height (H) of the waste water in the reaction vessel ( 1 ).