IP Library Granted Patent US 8,512,557
Granted Patent B2
US 8,512,557 · App. 12/962,133 · Granted Aug 20, 2013

Radon reduction apparatus

Inventors: Kil Yong Lee (Daejeon, KR); Kyung Seok Ko (Daejeon, KR); Yoon Yeol Yoon (Daejeon, KR)
Assignee: Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources(KIGAM)
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Patent No.
US 8,512,557
App. No.
12/962,133
Granted
Aug 20, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a radon reduction apparatus for groundwater disinfection. The radon reduction apparatus includes an agitation space forming body that groundwater fed through a groundwater feed pipe passes through before inflow into the groundwater storage tank and that forms a water turbine installation space whose top portion is not filled with groundwater; a water turbine located in the water turbine installation space to be rotated by groundwater when the fed groundwater falls, is run against the bottom and scattered; an oxygen supply unit supplying oxygen to groundwater before inflow of the groundwater to the agitation space forming body; a ventilating fan rotated by receiving rotary power of the water turbine and connected to the water turbine installation space to discharge air of the water turbine installation space; and an antiseptic solution supply unit supplying antiseptic solution to be mixed with the groundwater.

Claims (16)

1. A radon reduction apparatus for groundwater having a disinfection means, comprising:

an agitation space forming body that groundwater fed through a groundwater feed pipe passes through before inflow into a groundwater storage tank and that forms a water turbine installation space whose top portion is not filled with groundwater;

a water turbine located in the water turbine installation space to be rotated by groundwater when the fed groundwater falls, is run against a bottom and scattered;

an oxygen supply means supplying oxygen to groundwater before inflow of the groundwater to the agitation space forming body;

a ventilating fan that is rotated by receiving rotary power of the water turbine and that is connected to the water turbine installation space to discharge air of the water turbine installation space;

an antiseptic solution supply means supplying antiseptic solution to be mixed with the groundwater, and

wherein an agitation space, in which a predetermined amount of fed groundwater is delayed while going through the agitation space before inflow into the groundwater storage tank, is formed on a lower portion of the water turbine installation space in the agitation space forming body, and

an agitation screw located in the agitation space to stir the groundwater and the antiseptic solution inside the agitation space by being rotated by rotary power transmitted from the water turbine is further included, and

wherein in the antiseptic solution supply means, the antiseptic solution automatically flows in the groundwater feed pipe by an orifice, and

in the oxygen supply means, air automatically flows in the groundwater feed pipe by the orifice, and

wherein a partition is installed in the agitation space, thereby the groundwater flowing in the agitation space is discharged in the agitation space after flowing along a predetermined route.

2. The radon reduction apparatus of claim 1 , wherein a plurality of groundwater collection spaces are formed on a circumferential surface and a groundwater collection space of the plurality of groundwater collection spaces is blocked in every direction, thereby a process that falling water gathers and falls again is repeated in the water turbine.

3. The radon reduction apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the antiseptic solution supply means includes a flow control valve installed to control a supply amount of the antiseptic solution, and

the oxygen supply means includes an oxygen supply control valve installed to control a supply amount of oxygen.

4. The radon reduction apparatus of claim 1 , wherein an overflow pipe is connected at a portion spaced apart from a bottom in the agitation space and a drain pipe connected to the bottom in the agitation space is included so that a groundwater of the agitation space flows in the groundwater storage tank.

5. The radon reduction apparatus of claim 4 , wherein an inside cross-sectional area of the drain pipe is smaller than an inside cross-sectional area of the groundwater feed pipe and the overflow pipe or a displacement control valve for controlling drain through the drain pipe is further included.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 22, 2024
From: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE AND MINERAL RESOURCES
To: UNIHUB INC.
Reel/Frame 066191/0186 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 7, 2010
From: LEE, KIL YONG; KO, KYUNG SEOK; YOON, YOON YEOL
To: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE AND MINERAL RESOURCES(KIGAM)
Reel/Frame 025463/0592 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2010-0022179 · Mar 12, 2010 · national
Continuity (1)
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