Parallel Compartment Water Treatment Device
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing water treatment devices are inefficient in handling large volumes of pressurized water from domestic supplies, failing to effectively remove a broad range of contaminants and additives while maintaining compactness and optimizing water flow.
Innovation Solution
A water treatment device with a housing containing multiple cylindrical compartments, each equipped with a first tubular porous block and a second pleated fibrous sheet medium, arranged in parallel, allowing for efficient treatment of water through a manifold system that splits and reunites water streams, utilizing a combination of activated carbon, zeolite, quaternary amine polymer, silver bromide, and polyphosphate to remove contaminants and additives.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a single water treatment compartment is used, then the device structure is simple, but it cannot efficiently treat large volumes of pressurized water
Solution Approach 1:
The water treatment device is divided into multiple compartments (first compartment, second compartment, etc.), each containing treatment media. This segmentation allows water to be treated in parallel through multiple pathways, significantly increasing the overall treatment capacity while maintaining a manageable structural complexity through modular design.
2Reliability
If multiple treatment media are combined in each compartment, then a broad range of contaminants are removed, but the device size increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple treatment media (activated carbon, zeolite, quaternary amine polymer, silver bromide, polyphosphate) are combined within each compartment to achieve multi-functional contaminant removal. This merging approach consolidates what would otherwise require separate compartments for each treatment function, thereby maintaining compact device volume while ensuring comprehensive contaminant removal through synergistic action of different media.
3Productivity
If water flow is split into multiple streams, then treatment efficiency increases, but the manifold arrangement complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The water flow is segmented into multiple parallel streams through inlet manifolds that distribute water to different compartments, and outlet manifolds that collect treated water from各 compartments. This segmentation enables simultaneous treatment of multiple water streams, improving overall treatment efficiency while the manifold design maintains relatively simple fluid distribution pathways.
4Ease of operation
If treatment media are arranged in parallel compartments, then water flow optimization is achieved, but the manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The device is manufactured as separate modular compartments that can be individually assembled and then combined within the housing. Each compartment is a self-contained unit with inlet and outlet connections, allowing for simplified manufacturing and assembly processes while achieving optimized water flow distribution through the parallel arrangement of these standardized modules.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The device efficiently treats large volumes of water by removing particulate matter, organic substances, heavy metals, and bacteria, preventing scale formation, and adding nutrients or flavorings, meeting stringent standards for microbiology, heavy metal, and VOC reduction, while preventing scaling and optimizing water flow in a compact design.
Implementation Method 1
The first water treatment medium is in the form of a tubular porous block with a tubular block diameter, and formed about an axial lumen that has a lumen diameter. The second water treatment medium envelops the first water treatment media, and is in the form of a pleated fibrous sheet.
Implementation Method 2
Each of the two or more water treatment compartments contains a first water treatment medium and a second water treatment medium... water is being treated within the compartments by the first and second treatment media
Implementation Method 3
The treatment compartments are arranged in parallel one to the other, such that a water quantity that enters the device is divided by a manifold arrangement into at least two streams, each stream being treated in one of the compartments
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AI summary
Provided concerns a device for treating water of the kind intended for treating running water from a domestic water supply system or other sources of pressurized water, to obtain filtered or treated water, for example, of drinking water quality.