344 results about "Ballast water treatment" patented technology

The present invention relates to a remote managed ballast water treatment system using augmented reality, in particular, a ballast water treatment system (hereinafter, referred to as “BWTS”) which receives operation and failure information from various sensors installed in each component within a device, the remote managed ballast water treatment system comprising: an augmented reality terminal having a software application installed therein, which can recognize each component of the BWTS through shape information in a shot image while shooting a real-time image and provides information on a state of the BWTS and information required for the BWTS (provides augmented reality information), through a computer graphic image, in addition to a real-time image of reality; an augmented reality maintenance apparatus for the BWTS, the apparatus comprising a BWTS interface, an augmented reality interface, a satellite communication interface, and a control unit; and a remote management system of a terrestrial base station which shares sensing information of the BWTS and real-time image information of the augmented reality terminal with satellite communication through the satellite communication interface, wherein, when BWTS maintenance information has been sent from the remote management system of the terrestrial base station during a BWTS failure, the control unit outputs a failure point and repair information as augmented reality image information to the augmented reality terminal, a failure treatment method is guided to a user as a real-time augmented reality image, and the terrestrial base station supervises a failure treatment process of the BWTS through a real-time image.

Ballast water treatment apparatus and methods for preventing foreign aquatic invasive species form entering marine ecological zones by translocation in ship's ballast water. The apparatus includes a housing, a filter member, and UV water treatment chambers. Methods include use of a ship's fire hydrant system or ballast water discharge port for moving ballast water from the ship's ballast tanks into the apparatus for filtration and treatment. In-port service vessels and barges as well as dock-side service vehicles are equipped with the various treatment and filtration apparatus to provided in-port or dock-side ballast water treatment services. Related methods are also provided.

The invention relates to preparation and application of a sterilization composition containing various effective sterilization components. The sterilization composition contains a guanidine compound, a quarternary ammonium compound, 2-bromine-2-nitro-1,3-propanediol and ethanol, is diluted within a range of 50-1000 times, has the average killing rate of 99.99-99.9999 percent to gonites, bacterialspores, mycobacteria, viruses, fungi and spores thereof, can be used for the public health field, the food processing industry, the medical and health field, the livestock and poultry industry, the aquaculture industry and sterilization treatment on indoor air and in-vehicle air and can also be used for the port field, in particular to ship ballast water treatment, container treatment, industrialcirculating water treatment, swimming pool water treatment, hand and skin mucosa treatment, industrial wastewater treatment, hospital wastewater treatment and antiseptic treatment of a building material.

Ballast water treatment apparatus and methods for preventing foreign aquatic invasive species form entering marine ecological zones by translocation in ship's ballast water. The apparatus includes a housing, a filter member, and UV water treatment chambers. Methods include use of a ship's fire hydrant system for moving ballast water from the ship's ballast tanks into the apparatus for filtration and treatment. In-port service vessels and dock-side service vehicles are equipped with the treatment and filtration apparatus to provided in-port or dock-side ballast water treatment services. Related methods are also provided.

Disclosed herein is a ballast water treatment device. The device includes a filtering unit filtering ballast water introduced into a ship using a filter, a vortex generating unit generating an artificial vortex in the ballast water filtered by the filtering unit, and an ultraviolet treatment unit having an ultraviolet lamp which sterilizes the ballast water discharged from the vortex generating unit using ultraviolet rays, thus preventing secondary contamination resulting from by-products, preventing a ballast tank from becoming contaminated, affording effective maintenance, and making it convenient to control. Further, an artificial vortex is formed in the ballast water when it is mixed, thus allowing a large quantity of ultraviolet rays to be radiated onto the ballast water passing through the ultraviolet treatment unit, therefore improving a sterilization effect.

Water treatment plant, in particular ballast water treatment plant, for removing sediments and/or removing and/or destroying living organisms, which has at least one filter unit (B) and at least one disinfection unit (C), wherein the plant has a detection unit (D) by means of which the number of living organisms of a presettable size per unit volume of water can be determined, and in that the plant has a control unit, by means of which the disinfection unit (C) can be controlled as a function of the number of living organisms which has been determined.

The invention belongs to the technical field of ballast water treatment in the shipping process, and relates to a composite ship ballast water treatment method. The method comprises two steps of high-efficiency filtration and inactivation treatment by a reinjection electrolysis process; the high-efficiency filtration is to serially connect a filter to an output port, through which the ballast water is loaded into a ship ballast tank, of a ballast pump to remove pelagic organisms and suspended particles; the rated flow of the filter is the same as the flow of the ballast water; the inactivation treatment by the reinjection electrolysis method is that when the ballast water is loaded, a booster pump is used to extract partial ballast water from a water inlet manifold at an outlet end of the filter to flow through an electrolytic tank, and chloride ions are oxidized on a positive electrode of the electrolytic tank to generate chlorine to be dissolved in the ballast water to generate sodium hypochlorite; and the sodium hypochlorite solution is reinjected into the water inlet manifold by the booster pump to be mixed evenly to ensure that the concentration of the sodium hypochlorite realizes the killing to residual harmful aquatic organisms. The method has the advantages of simple process route, reliable principle, and good treatment effect.

A ballast water treatment plant, as well as a method of operation, configured for treating water to be delivered into a ballast tank is disclosed. The system and method is configured for, during ballast offload operation and by means of a first backwashing water conduit, lead backwashing water from a ballast water filter to a suction side of a ballast water pump. This way, filter backwashing water is circulated through the ballast water pump and the ballast water filter.

The invention provides a marine organism pollution control and ballast water treatment combined system for a ship. The marine organism pollution control and ballast water treatment combined system comprises a seawater valve box, wherein a marine organism protecting electrolytic cell and a ballast pump are connected with the seawater valve box; the marine organism protecting electrolytic cell is also connected with a cooling piping system flow meter and an electric cabinet; the cooling piping system flow meter is connected with the electric cabinet; one end of an auxiliary pump is connected with a pipeline between the ballast pump and the seawater valve box; the other end of the auxiliary pump is connected with a pipeline between the marine organism protecting electrolytic cell and the cooling piping system flow meter; an ultraviolet sterilizer is connected with the ballast pump through a self-cleaning filter; a ballast cabin is connected with the ultraviolet sterilizer; one end of a ballast water system flow meter is connected with the electric cabinet; and the other end of the ballast water system flow meter is connected with a pipeline between the ballast cabin and the ultraviolet sterilizer. By the system, marine organism pollution control on a whole ballast water pipe system can be realized under various work conditions. In addition, the marine organism pollution control and ballast water treatment combined system for the ship has the characteristics of high reliability, simplicity and convenience in operation, low energy consumption, zero pollution and the like, and is simple in structure, low in manufacturing cost, long in service life and high in practicality.

A ballast water treatment apparatus includes a filter that is cylindrically formed so as to surround an axis, a case that includes an outer cylindrical portion that is disposed so as to surround the filter, a rotation mechanism that rotates the filter around the axis, an untreated water nozzle that ejects untreated water to a filter-surrounding region that is defined by an outer peripheral surface of the filter and the outer cylindrical portion, a cleaning water nozzle that ejects cleaning water toward the outer peripheral surface of the filter, a filtered water channel through which filtered water that has passed through the filter flows from a region inside the filter to outside of the case, and a discharge channel through which discharged water that has not passed through the filter is discharged from the filter-surrounding region to outside of the case.

The invention discloses a water hammer shock wave pulsation system applied to ship ballast water treatment, which comprises a ballast tank and a treatment room, and the ballast tank is sequentially connected to the inlet of the treatment room through a centrifugal pump, a cyclone separator and a regulating valve One way of the outlet of the treatment chamber is connected with the ballast tank through the impact valve, and the other way of the outlet of the treatment chamber is connected with the inlet of the treatment chamber through the spring check valve and the first energy storage tank. A water hammer shock wave pulsation system applied to ship ballast water treatment according to the present invention can cause pressure pulsation through continuous water hammer and apply it to ship ballast water disinfection, which can effectively reduce costs and save energy. Effect, when the pressure shock wave in the system turns into a negative phase (low pressure), the hydraulic cavitation effect will occur, which can generate enough energy to kill microorganisms and bacteria in the ballast water, and complete the treatment process of the ship's ballast water.

An on-board ship water treatment system includes such features as drinking water purification and ballast water treatment. The on-board ship water treatment system includes an on-board ship water treatment vessel. A chlorine dioxide generator is fluidly connected to the on-board ship water treatment vessel. The chlorine dioxide generator includes a chlorine dioxide gas source and an absorption loop for effecting the dissolution of chlorine dioxide into a liquid stream. The absorption loop is fluidly connected to the chlorine dioxide gas source. A gas transfer assembly is interposed between the chlorine dioxide gas source and the absorption loop.

The invention relates to the technical field of environmental protection, in particular to a water treatment method and a device. The novel water treatment method is characterized by being realized only by a mechanical method and a physical and electrochemical combining method without adding any chemical substance in the treatment process. The method comprises the following steps: A. the treatment by the mechanical method: removing organisms more than 50mu m in the ballast water by filtering; B. the treatment by the physical and electrochemical combining method: removing the organisms by crushing in an ultrasound mode and treating residual organisms in the ballast water by controlling the amount for generating hydroxyl free groups; and C. treating finished ships through the step B and discharging the ballast water. The invention introduces a device adopting the method. The invention has the beneficial effects that the novel water treatment method can be simultaneously applied to sea water or fresh water to sterilize and remove algal, has better effects of sterilizing and removing algal, can realize automatic scale removal, has simple equipment and wide application range and ensures safety environment without generating secondary pollution.

A composition for treating waters, e.g. ballast water or injection water for oil recovery, to kill in-situ aquatic invasive species comprises at least one biocide capable of killing both animal and plant micro-organisms. The at least one biocide preferably comprises Brilliant Green, Gentian Violet, and/or erythrosine, and a wetting agent or detergent-like compound such as CTAB or CTAC. The invention also relates to a system for treating ballast water in situ comprising means for injecting a composition for treating ballast water; means for measuring the flow rate or amount of ballast water to be treated; means for controlling the dosing of the composition; and means for storing or receiving the composition. The invention also relates to a method of detecting viable aquatic organisms in ballast water in situ comprising detecting metabolism in viable micro-organisms in ballast water and, therefore, measuring the efficacy of any treatment.

A ballast water treatment apparatus for a ship includes a water collection part for collecting sea water, a forward osmosis process unit for producing ballast water and treatment water obtained by desalinating the sea water collected through the water collection part, and a ballast water tank for storing the ballast water produced by the forward osmosis process unit. Since the sea water is treated using a forward osmosis process, fresh water required within the ship can be supplied and the treated sea water can be used as ballast water. In addition, since waste heat and carbon dioxide generated in the ship are used to treat the sea water, the ballast water can be treated and produced in a low-cost and high efficient manner.

The disclosure relates to the use of ultrasound for treating ballast water in ships. Specifically the invention discloses the use of ultrasound to activate chemicals to significantly improve there disinfectant properties at low concentrations. Ultrasound chemical activation allows for sonication of only a portion of the incoming ballast water, greatly increasing the cost-effectiveness of ballast water treatment. The ballast water treatment system may integrate with new or existing shipboard ballast systems attaching to the ballast inlet mains; mixing, sonicating and delivering the active substance as it feeds into the ballast tanks. Alternatively, when space or other factors are an issue it can be designed to achieve the same mixing, sonication and delivery from a small apparatus attached to the ballast tanks.

The invention discloses a ship ballast water comprehensive treatment system, which comprises a ballast water pretreatment filter, a ballast water treatment box and a deep sea water replacing device. The working conditions of the ballast water pretreatment filter, the ballast water treatment box and the deep sea water replacing device are controllable, and the ballast water can be treated differently according to different water quality conditions of ship ballast water and requirements of different port states so as to ensure that the ballast water in a ballast tank satisfies IMO prescriptions. The ship ballast water comprehensive treatment system accords with safe, effective, environmentally-friendly, operable and economical requirements.

The present invention relates to a ballast water treatment system. The ballast water treatment system comprises: a filter and electrolysis unit for receiving ballast water from the outside, and filtering and electrolyzing the ballast water; a first sensor unit for measuring seawater characteristics of the ballast water passing through the filter and electrolysis unit; a control unit for determining a contamination level of the ballast water according to the measured seawater characteristic values so as to generate control signals for determining the strength of electrolysis and the input amount of chlorine dioxide; a chlorine dioxide generation unit for generating the chlorine dioxide; a UV/TiO₂ system which includes a TiO₂-coated plate, generates an OH radical through an interaction between ultraviolet rays and TiO₂ so as to enable the OH radical to sterilize residual microorganisms included in the ballast water passing through the filter and electrolysis unit; an automatic neutralization treatment device which includes a neutralizing agent, receives a neutralizing agent discharge signal from the control unit, and neutralizes the ballast water passing through the filter and the electrolysis unit; and a second sensor unit for measuring a TRO concentration of the ballast water neutralized in the automatic neutralization treatment device and transferring the measurement result to the control unit, wherein the control unit generates a control signal for controlling an amount of the neutralizing agent discharged from the automatic neutralization treatment device according to the measurement result received from the second sensor unit. Thus, the sterilization efficiency for the ballast water satisfies the USCG standards during the ballasting step for the ballast water.

The invention provides an on-line anti-fouling ship ballast water treatment system which comprises a ballast water main pipeline, a ballast water branch pipeline, a chemicals feeding pipeline, a filter, an electrolysis unit and a chemicals feeding pump, wherein the filter is positioned on the ballast water main pipeline, the electrolysis unit is positioned on the ballast water branch pipeline, the chemicals feeding pump is positioned on the chemicals feeding pipeline, part of seawater of the ship ballast water treatment system is introduced and filtered by the filter and then flows to the ballast water branch pipeline and the electrolysis unit, the part of the seawater which is electrolyzed by the electrolysis unit is reinjected to the filter through the chemicals feeding pump and the chemicals feeding pipeline after a ballast process is completed, and the part of the seawater is kept in the filter for a certain time. According to the on-line anti-fouling ship ballast water treatment system, after the ballast process is completed, a TRO solution obtained by electrolysis treatment of the seawater is reinjected to the filter and is kept in the filter until the next ballast process is started, so that the growth and propagation of marine organisms in the filter can be inhibited by sodium hypochlorite contained in the TRO solution when a ballast pump stops operating. In addition, the invention further provides an on-line anti-fouling ship ballast water treatment method.

A chlorine based bio-fouling control subsystem is utilized to facilitate shipboard water management systems such as ballast water management that employ filters. The biofouling control system can serve as a subsystem to promote antifouling and reduce the filter clogging due to biofouling, which improves the efficiency and effectiveness of the ballast water treatment management system. An antifouling agent of the biofouling control system breaks up the dense colonies of marine organisms being filtered or treated by the main water management systems.