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Granted Patent B2
US 9,731,988 · App. 14/119,958 · Granted Aug 15, 2017

Equipment for injecting a gas into a cesspool

Inventors: Guillaume Beaudouin (Trappes, FR); Robert Briend (Les Clayes sous Bois, FR); Ulrich Butz (Erkelenz, DE); Philippe Campo (Montigny le Bretonneux, FR); Frédéric Savreux (Avon, FR); David Maret (Avon, FR); Patrice Cognart (Avon, FR)
Assignees: L'Air Liquide, Société Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procédés Georges Claude; Milton Roy Mixing
C02F3/16B01F3/04531B01F13/0049B01F2003/04574Y02W10/15
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Patent No.
US 9,731,988
App. No.
14/119,958
Granted
Aug 15, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention relates to floating equipment, for injection of a gas into liquid effluents or waste water, and more particularly of a gas rich in oxygen into a basin from the surface. The floating equipment has the following elements: a driving device, intended to be disposed over the liquid, provided with a vertical output shaft ( 8 ), equipped at its end with a propeller ( 6 ) immersed in the liquid; a pre-mixing device ( 5 ) comprising an injection device ( 7 ) positioned above or below a mobile aerator ( 9 ) with inclined blades, the propeller being situated at the end of the shaft, under the pre-mixing reactor.

Claims (24)

1. Floating equipment, for injection of a gas into liquid effluents or waste water, comprising the following elements:

a driving device, intended to be disposed over the liquid, provided with a vertical output shaft ( 8 ), equipped at its end with a propeller ( 6 ) immersed in the liquid; and

a pre-mixing device ( 5 ) comprising an injection device ( 7 ) positioned above or below a mobile aerator ( 9 ) with inclined blades, the propeller being situated at the end of the shaft, under a pre-mixing reactor,

wherein the injection device is a torus, provided with injection orifices, the internal space of the torus being compartmentalized into at least two separate zones able to be supplied with different gases.

2. The equipment of claim 1 , wherein the propeller has a pumping flow rate number N Qp that is in the range 0.3 to 1, where:

Q p =N Qp ×N×D 3 ; where Q p is the pumping rate of the propeller, N the rotation speed of the propeller, and D the diameter of the propeller.

3. The equipment of claim 1 , wherein the injection device is of torus shape.

4. The equipment of claim 1 , wherein the injection device is a torus, provided with injection orifices, and positioned in a circle inscribed in the diameter of the propeller, the torus being positioned at a distance between 0.01 to 1.5 times the diameter of the propeller above the propeller.

5. The equipment of claim 3 , wherein the injection device is a torus, provided with injection orifices, the torus having a diameter between 20 to 200% of the diameter of the propeller.

6. The equipment of claim 3 , wherein the distance between the injection torus and the mobile aerator with inclined blades is between 1 to 20% of the diameter of the mobile aerator.

7. The equipment of claim 3 , wherein the injection device is a torus, provided with injection orifices, the torus having a diameter between 30 to 120% of the diameter of the propeller.

8. The equipment of claim 3 , wherein the distance between the injection torus and the mobile aerator with inclined blades is close to 2.5% of the diameter of the mobile aerator.

9. The equipment of claim 1 , wherein the injection device is formed by an assembly of porous elements of porous candle filter type or porous plate type or perforated plate type, the porous elements situated in a volume defined by a vertical cylinder centered on the vertical axis of the propeller, the vertical cylinder having an outside diameter equal to at least 3 times the diameter of the propeller and a height equal to at least three times the diameter of the propeller.

10. The equipment of claim 1 , wherein said equipment floats thanks to the presence of one or more floats ( 3 ) and in that the distance between the lower face of the float and the upper leading edge of the propeller is between 0.5 to 1.5 times the diameter of the propeller.

11. The equipment of claim 1 , wherein the mobile aerator with inclined blades includes an even number of times the number of blades of the propeller situated at the end of the shaft.

12. The equipment of claim 1 , wherein the mobile aerator with inclined blades is positioned below the injection device at a distance of between 5 mm to 100 mm from that injection device.

13. The equipment of claim 1 , wherein the injection device is a torus, provided with injection orifices, and positioned in a circle inscribed in the diameter of the propeller, the torus being positioned at a distance between 0.03 to 0.3 times the diameter of the propeller, above the propeller.

14. The equipment of claim 1 , wherein said equipment floats thanks to the presence of one or more floats ( 3 ) and in that the distance between the lower face of the float and the upper leading edge of the propeller is between 0.8 to 1.0 times the diameter of the propeller.

15. The equipment of claim 1 , wherein the mobile aerator with inclined blades includes 2 to 12 blades of the propeller situated at the end of the shaft.

16. The equipment of claim 1 , wherein the mobile aerator with inclined blades includes 4 to 8 blades of the propeller situated at the end of the shaft.

17. Floating equipment for injection of a gas into liquid effluents or waste water, comprising the following elements:

a driving device, intended to be disposed over the liquid, provided with a vertical output shaft ( 8 ), equipped at its end with a propeller ( 6 ) immersed in the liquid; and

a pre-mixing device ( 5 ) comprising an injection device ( 7 ) positioned above or below a mobile aerator ( 9 ) with inclined blades, the propeller being situated at the end of the shaft, under a pre-mixing reactor,

wherein said equipment comprises an assembly of at least two plates ( 11 ) with a substantially parallelepiped or trapezoidal form, located below the waterline, said plates being fixed at one end to a body and joined completely or partly to the constituent elements of the injection equipment and the injection device ( 7 ) as well as floating elements enabling the equipment to be floating, the plates being directed towards the drive axis of the propeller.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 21, 2014
From: BEAUDOUIN, GUILLAUME; CAMPO, PHILIPPE; BRIEND, ROBERT; BUTZ, ULRICH
To: L'AIR LIQUIDE, SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME POUR L'ETUDE ET L'EXPLOITATION DES PROCÉDÉS GEORGES CLAUDE
Reel/Frame 033351/0450 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 21, 2014
From: SAVREUX, FRÉDÉRIC; MARET, DAVID; COGNART, PATRICE
To: MILTON ROY MIXING
Reel/Frame 033351/0605 →
Priority Claims (1)
FR 11 54543 · May 25, 2011 · national
Continuity (1)
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