Patent ID: 8029678

Claim:
A method for treating water comprising an ozonization step, a clarification step, and at least one filtration step, wherein: downstream of a clarification tank ( 1 ), that clarifies a main water stream in the clarification step, and upstream of a contact tank ( 2 ), having a dissolution chamber, via a branch of a conduit ( 9 ) on a line ( 3 ) connecting the clarification tank ( 1 ) to the contact tank ( 2 ), a fraction of the main water stream, which is between 5% and 10% of the water stream, is diverted, said fraction of water is pressurized to a pressure about 2.3 bars absolute, delivered to a liquid/gas exchange tower ( 7 ), and saturated with ozone at the pressure in the exchange tower, wherein the ozone is present in an oxygen carrier gas at a concentration between 5% and 10% by weight, the carrier gas is directly injected at a bottom of the exchange tower, and about 92% by weight of the ozone in the carrier gas is transferred into the diverted fraction of water, an untransferred part of the carrier gas is extracted, and surplus ozone at the top of the tower ( 7 ) is recovered by a line ( 16 ) connected to an ozone destroyer ( 18 ), and the ozone-saturated fraction of water is diluted in the main stream within the dissolution chamber in the ozonization step, wherein the dissolution chamber is formed in an upstream portion of the contact tank ( 2 ), a filter ( 4 ) being provided after the contact tank ( 2 ) that filters the main stream in the filtering step.