Fluid Treatment Reactor with Separate Influent and Recycled Effluent Ports
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing fluid treatment reactors face challenges in durability, maintenance, and cost-effectiveness while effectively removing contaminants through precipitation processes, often requiring substantial user intervention and chemical adjustments.
Innovation Solution
A crystallization precipitation reactor with a vessel design featuring multiple ports for media and fluid communication, including a solid discharge port, media inlet, effluent discharge port, influent input port, and recycled effluent port, which allows for efficient contaminant removal without the need for pH adjustment or carbonate stripping, using a media like sand or seeding agents within the reactor.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional precipitation processes are used with chemical adjustments, then contaminant removal effectiveness is improved, but device complexity and maintenance requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and eliminates the need for complex chemical adjustment systems by using a physically-based filtration medium that naturally removes contaminants through adsorption and filtration mechanisms, rather than requiring chemical precipitation agents and pH control systems
Solution Approach 2:
The filtration medium performs contaminant removal automatically through its inherent physical and chemical properties without requiring external chemical dosing systems, pH monitoring, or complex control mechanisms, enabling the system to self-regulate the treatment process
2Reliability
If durable and low-maintenance construction is used, then operational reliability is improved, but manufacturing cost may increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs porous filtration media that provide high surface area for contaminant capture while maintaining structural integrity and flow characteristics, achieving durable performance with relatively simple material selection and assembly processes
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses homogeneous filtration media throughout the reactor that provides consistent performance characteristics, simplifying manufacturing by eliminating the need for complex multi-component assemblies or specialized materials in different zones
3Ease of operation
If minimal user intervention is achieved, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity may increase
Solution Approach 1:
The reactor design enables automatic contaminant removal through the inherent properties of the filtration medium, with no requirement for user-operated chemical dosing, pH adjustment, or process monitoring systems, achieving minimal intervention through straightforward hydraulic operation
Solution Approach 2:
The reactor is divided into functional zones (influent distribution, filtration media bed, effluent collection) that operate independently with simple hydraulic connections, allowing complex treatment functions to be achieved through modular, easily operated components
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The reactor achieves durable, low-maintenance, and cost-effective contaminant removal with minimal user intervention, enhancing market appeal and operational simplicity without incurring substantial disadvantages.
Implementation Method 1
precipitation processes involve changing the chemical environment of a fluid, for example, a water or wastewater stream, with various chemical species to affect removal of some or all of target chemical contaminants
Implementation Method 2
crystallization precipitation reactor
Data Source
AI summary
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a fluid treatment reactor. Separate input ports for influent and recycled effluent serve to eliminate the need for pH adjustment or carbonate stripping of the influent and recycled effluent flows. The fluid treatment reactor may include a media, a vessel including a top portion and a bottom portion, a solid discharge port, an effluent discharge port, an influent input in fluid communication with the media, and a recycled effluent port in fluid communication with the media.