Water treatment system and method
The invention in at least one embodiment includes a system for treating water having an intake module, a vortex module, a disk-pack module, and a motor module where the intake module is above the vortex module, which is above the disk-pack module and the motor module. In a further embodiment, a housing is provided over at least the intake module and the vortex module and sits above the disk-pack module. In at least one further embodiment, the disk-pack module includes a disk-pack turbine having a plurality of disks having at least one waveform present on at least one of the disks.
1. A system for treating water or other fluids comprising:
a motor module having a base;
a disk-pack module having a disk-pack turbine in rotational engagement with said motor module;
a vortex module in fluid communication with said disk-pack turbine;
an intake module in fluid communication with said vortex module;
a plurality of conduits connecting said vortex module to said intake module;
a plurality of support members connected to said disk-pack module and said vortex module, at least one of said plurality of conduits and said plurality of support members is connected between said vortex module and said intake module such that said intake module is above said vortex module and said disk-pack module; and
means for filtering.
2. The system according to claim 1 , wherein said disk-pack module includes
a turbine housing defining an accumulation chamber in which said disk-pack turbine resides; and
a discharge housing defining a discharge chamber in fluid communication with said accumulation chamber through a discharge channel and a discharge outlet in fluid communication with said discharge chamber.
3. The system according to claim 2 , wherein said discharge channel encircles a substantial portion of the accumulation chamber.
4. The system according to claim 2 , wherein said disk-pack module further includes a supplemental inlet in fluid communication with said accumulation chamber.
5. The system according to claim 4 , wherein said supplemental inlet includes a valve and an inlet feed chamber such that a fluid pathway is capable of running from the inlet of said valve through the inlet feed chamber into at least one of the accumulation chamber and the discharge channel.
6. The system according to claim 2 , wherein said discharge housing includes a spiral protrusion running around a wall of the discharge chamber in an upward direction towards said discharge outlet.
7. The system according to claim 2 , wherein said discharge housing includes a particulate discharge port extending from a bottom of the discharge chamber.
8. The system according to claim 7 , further comprising a particulate conduit in fluid communication with said particulate discharge port.
9. The system according to claim 8 , wherein said particulate conduit connected to at least one port runs through a housing that extends away from said base and passes through a gasket on a housing around said vortex module and said intake module.
10. The system according to claim 2 , wherein said discharge housing includes a spiral protrusion running around a wall of the discharge chamber in a downward direction towards said particulate discharge port.
11. The system according to claim 2 , wherein said discharge outlet includes a radius flared outwardly wall.
12. The system according to claim 1 , wherein said disk-pack turbine includes a plurality of waveform disks.
13. The system according to claim 1 , wherein said disk-pack turbine includes a plurality of disks having at least two waveforms present between a center of said disk and a periphery of said disk such that neighboring disks are nested together.
14. The system according to claim 13 , wherein said waveforms are selected from a group consisting of sinusoidal, biaxial sinucircular, a series of interconnected scallop shapes, a series of interconnected arcuate forms, hyperbolic, and/or multi-axial including combinations of these.
15. The system according to claim 13 , wherein said disk-pack turbine includes a plurality of wing shims connecting said disks.
16. The system according to claim 1 , wherein said disk-pack turbine includes a top rotor and a lower rotor.
17. The system according to claim 16 , wherein said top rotor and said lower rotor include cavities.
18. A method for treating water or other fluids comprising:
drawing water into a whirlpool chamber for creation of a whirlpool allowing most of any particulate, precipitated solids and/or concentrated solids present in the water to drop from the water as the water enters at least one of a plurality of conduits;
forming a vortex flow of the water in a vortex chamber that receives the water from the plurality of conduits, wherein the vortex chamber is located below the whirlpool chamber;
discharging the water into an expansion chamber defined in a disk-pack turbine;
channeling the water between spaces that exist between disks of the disk-pack turbine to travel from the expansion chamber to an accumulation chamber surrounding the disk-pack turbine;
routing the water through the accumulation chamber to a discharge chamber;
forming a vortical flow of the water up through the discharge chamber back into an environment from which the water was drawn and a downward flow of solids to a discharge port; and
removing most of any particulate, precipitated solids and/or concentrated solids present in the whirlpool chamber.