Liquid purification or separation inventions 12/06

20060289343 - Faucet assembly with water quality indicator: A faucet assembly including a base defining a water delivery passageway, a valve member received in the base and movable between a closed position wherein flow through the water delivery passageway is blocked and an opened position wherein flow through the water delivery passageway is permitted, a magnet secured to... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20060289342 - Hemodialysis treatment apparatus and method for hemodialysis treatment: A hemodialysis treatment apparatus includes a circulating blood volume variation rate detecting device, a vital sign detecting device and a display. The circulating blood volume variation rate detecting device detects a circulating blood volume variation rate of a patient in a time-course of a hemodialysis treatment. The vital sign detecting... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20060289346 - Screened gravity-fed funnel: A screened gravity-fed water funnel or water funnel kit may be characterized in one aspect as including a substantially conically-shaped water-permeable mesh screen, a funnel releasably mounted or mountable to, and in fluid cooperation with, the screen, and a flexible tether mounted or mountable to the screen. An anchor or... Agent: Antony C. Edwards

20060289345 - Solar powered aquarium: Solar powered aquarium with a water holding vessel suitable for use as a table top aquarium powered by one or more solar cells. The aquarium vessel includes a secondary bottom held up from the main bottom by a side wall. A small cylinder is mounted between the main bottom and... Agent: Thomas R. Lampe Bielen, Lampe & Thoeming

20060289344 - Water circulation unit with increased throughput for swimming pools, and filter unit comprising the same: A water circulation unit includes an ejector (142), a convergent, and a pipe (146) which is arranged in the extension of the convergent. The ejection axis practically merges with the symmetry axis of the convergent, the two axes forming a common axis of the unit, and the distance between the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20060289347 - Dirt out: DIRT OUT a bathtub filtration system apparatus that removes dirt and other particles found in bath water. This filtration system maintains the temperature of water at a given level without changing any of it's elements. An apparatus according to the present invention compromises a suction hose pulling water through a... Agent: Chekesha Anasa Haley

20060289348 - Centrifugal press for drying wet, respectively moist, graded product: The invention refers to centrifugal press for drying wet, respectively moist, graded product, comprising a housing provided with a filter basket, which can be set in a motion of rotation, and an outlet for the liquid leaving the graded product. The invention is characterised by the fact that a rotatably... Agent: Jacobson, Price, Holman & Stern Professional Limited Liability Company

20060289349 - Composite materials for fluid treatment: This invention relates generally to composite materials and to devices which may alter fluid parameters. Devices incorporating the composite materials of the invention are used to deliver, remove, and generate, fluid treatment agents, and combinations thereof. These materials and devices are applicable to many different fluid processing situations including drinking... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20060289350 - Method for producing defect free composite membranes: A defect free semipermeable composite membrane having excellent integrity and high water permeability is provided. Said composite membrane comprises an inside support layer to provide sufficient mechanical strength; an outside barrier layer to provide selective separation; and a middle layer to provide both physical adhesion and chemical binding between said... Agent: Jiang Ji

20060289351 - Nanostructures synthesized using anodic aluminum oxide: This invention provides ways to fabricate nanotubes and nanobead arrays by utilizing nanopores in anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) membranes. Nanotubes of bismuth and other low melting point metals with controlled diameters and lengths can be fabricated by sintering AAO coated with appropriate metals at temperatures above their melting points. Carbon... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20060289352 - Poly(meth)acrylate membranes for separation of hydrocarbon mixtures: Each R and R2 is independently a C6-C20 aromatic residue or a C1-C20 aliphatic residue. Each R1 is independently hydrogen or C1-C5 alkyl; “j” is an integer in the range of 1-1000. Z is a heteroatom or two hydrogen atoms. The invention is also directed to the method of preparing... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20060289353 - Desanding apparatus and system: A desanding vessel is inserted in a high velocity fluid stream containing entrained particulates. The vessel comprises an upper freeboard portion having a large cross-sectional wherein the fluid stream velocity drops and particulates fall from suspension. Preferably the fluid stream is introduced offset upwardly from an axis of a horizontally... Agent: Sean W. Goodwin

20060289354 - Method and composition to control the growth of microorganisms in aqueous systems and on substrates: A method and composition for killing, preventing, or inhibiting the growth of microorganisms in an aqueous system or on a substrate capable of supporting a growth of microorganisms are provided by providing a lactoperoxidase, hydrogen peroxide or a peroxide source, a halide, other than a chloride, or a thiocyanate, and,... Agent: Kilyk & Bowersox, P.l.l.c.

20060289356 - Digesters: Methods and devices are disclosed for converting predominantly organic waste materials, such as sludge, into useful byproducts.... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20060289355 - Methods for manufacturing hydrogen using anaerobic digestion: A method for manufacturing a biomass enriched with hydrogen-producing bacteria or spores includes providing a biomass comprising a hydrogen-producing bacteria and a competing bacteria and treating the biomass with a sufficient amount of a chemical agent for a period of time such that the treatment (i) kills, inhibits or injures... Agent: John M. Guynn Workman Nydegger

20060289357 - Method and system for removing solutes from a fluid using magnetically conditioned coagulation: A method for removing a solute from a fluid using magnetically conditioned coagulation includes magnetically conditioning the fluid by applying a conditioning magnetic field to enhance the precipitation of solute particles for coagulation; adding a coagulant to the fluid before, during, or after application of the conditioning magnetic field to... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska

20060289358 - Methods and apparatus for removing contaminants from storm water: A method for removing contaminant particles from storm water includes: providing a pre-mixed flocculant solution including a water-soluble flocculant and a quantity of solvent water; and thereafter mixing the pre-mixed flocculant solution with the storm water to form treated water wherein flocculants of the pre-mixed flocculant solution are bound with... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20060289359 - Method of clarifying oily waste water: A method of clarifying oily waste water comprising adding to the waste water an effective clarifying amount of one or more demulsifiers selected from the group consisting of dendritic polyamines, dendritic polyamidoamines and hyperbranched polyethyleneimines and the reaction products thereof with gluconolactone, alkylene oxides, salts of 3-chloro-2-hydroxypropanesulfonic acid, alkyl halides,... Agent: Nalco Company Patent & Licensing Department

20060289360 - Blood circuit for a dialysis machine and corresponding dialysis machine: A blood circuit for a dialysis machine is made from plastic material and is provided with a metallic plate, which is applied to an external face of the blood circuit and is connectable to a voltage generator in such a way as to form a capacitor, in which the plate... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20060289361 - Method and device for purifying water: A method and apparatus for using a combination of sonication and ozone to decontaminate pressurized water. The process includes pumping polluted water from a source, such as a creek, river, pond or the like. The water is transferred to a treatment container where it is dissolved air is removed via... Agent: Bingham Mchale LLP

20060289363 - Chemical feeder system and method: A chemical feeder system includes an aqueous chemical contained in a chemical source, the chemical source connected with a fluid stock through a chemical flow conduit and a feeder assembly connected within the chemical flow conduit that includes a metering device, a flow rate sensor and a controller operationally connected... Agent: Henry L Ehrlich

20060289362 - Water treatment method and water treatment apparatus: A water treatment method sufficiently decomposes low-degradable organic substances while suppressing production of bromate ions and consumption of hydrogen peroxide. A water treatment method for purifying water using radicals includes injecting an electron-donating substance selected from the group consisting of saccharides, amino acids, lipids, humic acid, and mixtures thereof into... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20060289364 - Method for treating ship ballast water: A method for treating ship ballast water in which organisms viable in the ship ballast water are exterminated by adding to the ship ballast water hydrogen peroxide or a compound producing hydrogen peroxide in an amount such that a hydrogen peroxide concentration comes to be 10 to 500 mg/L and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060283786 - Fluid purification system with ultra violet light emitters: A system for purifying a fluid uses ultra violet (UV) light to inactivate micro-organisms present in the fluid. The system has an arrangement of UV light emitters on perforated plates. The fluid, while passing through perforations in the perforated plates, is exposed to the UV light emitted by the UV... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20060283787 - Integrated advanced simultaneous oxidation process (asop) to defeat chemical, biological, and radiological agents in aqueous and/or other fluid solutions: The Hyd-RO-Secure™ System combines individual elements of aqueous and other fluid treatment technology into a treatment train including various devices for pre-treatment tailored to the source solution, a conventional reverse osmosis membrane treatment process, a RASco-designed Advanced Simultaneous Oxidation Process (ASOP™), and various devices for post-treatment tailored to the characteristics... Agent: Dr. Vincent J. Ciccone, Pe

20060283785 - Slurry filtration system and apparatus: A slurry filtration system and apparatus with peripheral elements for conditioning a slurry prior to entry into a pressure filter (32) and the control of fluid and liquid introductions into the filter (32) to produce a desired filter cake or filtrate. The system includes a controller (16) for controlling the... Agent: James R. Cypher

20060283788 - Tri-clone system: A method for the remediation of contaminated liquid wherein contaminated or polluted waste water is treated in a process utilizing a three-fold filtration system wherein liquid is pumped into a tank divided by weirs to create three chambers comprising a three-fold filtration system wherein each chamber subjects polluted liquid to... Agent: Rudy Schreppel . Jr

20060283789 - Pool and spa dual body sanitization system: A sanitizer generation system provides sanitizer to a plurality of bodies of water. The system includes a sanitizer generator, a plurality of circulation systems, and a control system that selectively connects the circulation systems to the sanitizer generator as needed to sanitize the bodies of water.... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20060283790 - Debris filter: A debris filter for reactor coolant includes a plurality of adjacent plates defining a plurality of channels therebetween, each of said channels being at an angle to the flow path of the coolant into the filter.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20060283791 - Filter valve for fluid loss device: A filter valve adapted for use in a work string above a pressure actuated down hole device. When open, the filter valve provides full bore access to the bore hole. When closed, the filter valve prevents particles in a work string from settling on the down hole device while allowing... Agent: Ai C. Metrailer Conley Rose

20060283792 - Locking drain filter for floor drains with drain wells: A locking drain filter for floor drains with drain wells is provided. An upper filter portion has external dimensions that allow the upper filter portion to be inserted into a drain line at the bottom of the drain well. A lower filter portion has first external dimensions that allow the... Agent: Mr. Christopher John Rourk Jackson Walker LLP

20060283793 - Ultraviolet treatment unit and septic tank system: A septic tank system including a tank and a downstream fluid system. The tank is adapted to receive sewerage and discharge liquid effluent into the downstream fluid system. A treatment chamber is located in the downstream fluid system and receives an ultraviolet light transmitting device which is removably insertable into... Agent: Law Offices Of Brian C. Pauls

20060283794 - Method and installation for the biological treatment of water using activated sludge and comprising aeration regulation: The biological water or wastewater treatment process described herein alternates aeration and anoxic phases during a water treatment process. According to one exemplary process, the water or wastewater is directed into a biological tank. The water or wastewater in the biological tank is aerated until measured nitrate or redox values... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20060283795 - System and method for treating wastewater using coir filter: A wastewater treatment system includes a septic tank having a discharge in flow communication with one or more biofilter containers having filter media therein. Wastewater or effluent from the septic tank is allowed to contact the filter media and each container includes an outlet for discharging the wastewater to the... Agent: Middleton & Reutlinger

20060283796 - Nitrifying method and treating method of water containing ammonium-nitrogen: In treating water containing ammonium-nitrogen by a combination of a nitrification process and autotrophic denitrification bacteria, high efficiency denitrification treatment is achieved by providing adequate ratio between nitrite and ammonia in effluent of the nitrification process. Ammonium-nitrogen concentration of the raw water introduced to a nitrification reactor 1 and the... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20060283800 - Liquid-liquid extraction system and method: A method of extracting ethanol from a feed solution using a liquid-liquid extraction system including an outer chamber and an inner chamber. The outer chamber is adapted to contain one of a feed solution and a liquid extractant and defines a containment region. The inner chamber is adapted to contain... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20060283798 - Method and apparatus for purifying a pigment dispersion, pigment dispersion, ink set, droplet-ejecting apparatus, and inkjet-recording ink tank: A method of purifying a pigment dispersion including: bringing an unpurified pigment dispersion containing a pigment and impurities into liquid-liquid interfacial contact with an extracting liquid in a microspace, and extracting and removing the impurities in the unpurified pigment dispersion into the extracting liquid to obtain a purified pigment dispersion.... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20060283799 - Method and device for pressing: A method and a device for pressing a liquid extract from a material to be pressed include a screw press which conveys the material to be pressed along a pressing route and applies pressure to it. In addition, at least one extracting agent is added to the material to be... Agent: Friedrich Kueffner

20060283797 - Method and equipment for liquid-liquid extraction: The invention relates to a method for reversing the dispersion formed in the mixing section of liquid-liquid extraction and kept condensed in the separation section and the separated solutions form the rear end of the separation section to flow back towards the feed end of the separation section. The invention... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20060283801 - Method and device for in-line preparation of liquid for an extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus: A method for in-line preparation of liquid for an extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus that makes provision for placing a filter in correspondence with each of two successive filtration stations, for carrying out a liquid preparation cycle, for removing the filter, which operates in correspondence with a first filtration station, for... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20060283802 - Methods and systems for producing electricity and desalinated water: The heated exhaust from a gas turbine-powered electrical generator mounted on a structure positioned offshore on the surface of a body of water is transferred to water to be desalinated to aid in the desalination process by providing heat for distillation or by raising the temperature of water to be... Agent: Ruden, Mcclosky, Smith, Schuster & Russell, P.A.

20060283803 - Water treatment process: The present invention relates to water treatment, in particular to a process for the removal of dissolved organic carbon from water. The process includes the following steps, adding an ion-exchange resin to water containing a contaminant such as dissolved organic carbon, dispersing the resin in the contaminated water to enable... Agent: Greenlee Winner And Sullivan P C

20060283804 - Combined degassing and flotation tank: A combined degassing and flotation tank for separation of a water influent containing considerable amounts of oil and gas. A rotational flow is created in the tank which forces the lighter components such as oil and gas droplets towards an inner concentric cylindrical wall where they coalesce and rise to... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20060283805 - Advanced separator system: A method for the remediation of contaminated liquid stream wherein liquid is passed through a reactor loop before entering tank and reactor loop is a series of conduits with internal baffles with openings wherein reactor loop causes ionization in the liquid stream before entering tank wherein liquids are additionally passed... Agent: Rudy Schreppel, Jr.

20060283806 - Wastewater treatment process: A wastewater treatment process for treating wastewater comprising a water-based dispersion containing a surfactant, a colorant and silica, as well as other solid matter, wherein the wastewater is treated using a polysilicato-iron coagulant.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060283807 - Process obtaining landfill disposable wasted from hydrocarbon containing sludge: A method of processing oily sludge to remove a substantial proportion of the water and hydrocarbon content there-from to form a solid cake of waste material that is suitable for disposal in landfill sites. The method involving, firstly promoting flocculation in a batch of waste material by mixing in a... Agent: Zarley Law Firm P.L.C

20060283808 - Automated electrolyte addition for salt water pools, spas, and water features: An automated system of the present invention adds electrolyte into a pool. The automated system includes a sanitizer generator, a circulation system, and an electrolytic solution delivery system. The circulation system, which includes the sanitizer generator, has a suction line and a discharge line that delivers water from the pool... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20060283809 - Dual generator single power source for tandem pool and spa: A sanitizer generation system supplies power to a first and a second sanitizer generator. Each of the sanitizer generators is connected to a body of water by a circulation system. The system includes a power supply and a control system connected to the power supply and the sanitizer generators. The... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20060283810 - A simplified device for converting uv chambers to an o3/uv advanced simultaneous oxidation process reactor for the treatment of fluids: This application describes a simplified means to convert Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) ultra-violet light fluid treatment units (chamber) into an improved advanced oxidation process through a mechanism to efficiently introduce ozone (O3) into the chamber, converting that chamber into an Advanced Simultaneous Oxidation Process (ASOP™) Reactor. This reactor can be used as... Agent: Dr. Vincent J. Ciccone, Pe

20060283811 - Method of water treatment: The invention relates to a method of treatment of bodies of water such as recreational pools, spas and hot tubs with maintenance doses of water treatment chemicals to achieve consistent sanitization and aesthetically pleasing levels of properties such as turbidity. The amount f the maintenance doses is based on the... Agent: Wiggin And Dana LLP Attention: Patent Docketing

20060283813 - Automated accellerated extraction of trace elements from biomass: A method and apparatus automates and accelerates the extraction and analysis of trace elements from biomass. The method and apparatus are especially useful at key segregation points in the food chain where speed and accuracy is necessary to separate agricultural cereals that are elevated in beneficial trace element content which... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20060283812 - Caustic solution treatment process: A method for treating a spent caustic solution having a pH greater than about 10.5 includes the steps of (a) lowering the pH of the caustic solution into the range of between about 10 to 10.5 to produce a pH-modified caustic solution; (b) oxidizing the pH-modified caustic solution until the... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20060283814 - Gravitational separator and apparatus for separating floating particulate and volatile liquids from a stormwater stream adaptable for inline usage: A hydrodynamic gravitational separator has an input channel positioned to tangentially direct storm water into collection and treatment cavity while remaining operable in high flow conditions to divert excess storm water directly through to an outlet pipe.... Agent: Douglas T. Johnson Miller & Martin

20060283815 - Fluid filtering with contaminant removal: An apparatus, system, and method for fluid filtering with contaminant removal, such as removing water from the surface of a top loading-type fuel filter element, includes a housing containing a cavity, a fluid flow inlet leading into the cavity, a filter element disposed in the cavity, and a flow director... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20060278569 - Coaxial full-flow and bypass oil filter apparatus and method: A fluid filter includes a first filter, a second filter coaxial with the first filter, an inlet adjacent the first and second filters, a first outlet adjacent the inlet, and a second outlet at a distal end from the inlet and the first outlet. Further, the first and second filters... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP Washington Square

20060278570 - Coaxial full-flow and bypass oil filter apparatus and method: A fluid filter includes a first filter, a second filter coaxial with the first filter, an inlet adjacent the first and second filters, a first outlet adjacent the inlet, and a second outlet at a distal end from the inlet and the first outlet. Further, the first and second filters... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP Washington Square

20060278571 - Ion exchanger container for a motor vehicle: An ion exchanger vessel having a housing for receiving an ion exchange material and an inlet line and a discharge line in the housing for feeding and discharging a liquid to be passed through the ion exchange material. To heat the liquid, a heating medium is guided through the ion... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20060278572 - Devices, systems and methods for securing and sealing filter media elements in separation systems: A device for securing a filter element within a housing of a separation system, wherein the housing has an inner wall and includes therein a filter seating to seat the filter element, includes at least one sealing member adapted to form a sealing connection with the filter element and a... Agent: Bartony & Hare

20060278573 - Drainage box: A drainage box is provided for use in protecting gutter drainpipes from clogging. An exemplary embodiment of the drainage includes a drainpipe portion for removably inserting into a drainpipe, and a filter attached to the drainpipe portion, wherein the filter has at least three plane sides. The filter includes a... Agent: Donnell Robinson

20060278574 - Fluid treatment element: A hollow cylindrical fluid treatment element including at least one fluid treatment zone (Z1) comprising melt-blown fibers and at least one reinforcement element comprising yarn and/or wire, is disclosed.... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20060278575 - Filter element for a liquid filter: A filter element for a liquid filter, especially a fuel filter, having an annular, rotationally symmetrical filter medium closed on at least one axial end by an end disk to sealingly separate an exterior space surrounding the the filter medium from an interior space inside the filter medium, with a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20060278576 - Filter cartridge construction: A filtration module (10) is provided which includes a manifold (12), a filter cartridge (16) and a bowl (14) which houses the filter cartridge (16). The filter cartridge (16) and bowl (14) are connected to each other by a key (30) which is secured to flat surfaces (38) on the... Agent: Mykrolis Corporation

20060278577 - Liquid flow promoter device and liquid ejection apparatus: In a liquid ejection apparatus, liquid is supplied to a liquid ejection head through a liquid flow promoter device. The liquid flow promoter device includes a liquid passage and a liquid receiving chamber provided in a liquid passage. The liquid receiving chamber is defined by an inner wall surface including... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060278578 - Energy dissipating inlet for clarifiers: A fluid inlet for waste water treatment equipment adapted to dissipate energy of a fluid that flows through the fluid inlet. The fluid inlet includes a bottom wall, a side wall and a plurality of spaced apart ports. The ports are in fluid communication with a chamber formed by the... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20060278579 - Method for separating semiconducting and metallic carbon nanotubes: A method for separating semiconducting and metallic carbon nanotubes by selectively plating metallic carbon nanotubes via electroless plating to precipitate the plated metallic carbon nanotubes and filtering the precipitated metallic carbon nanotubes. According to an example method, metallic and semiconducting carbon nanotubes may be effectively separated from each other in... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20060278581 - Shear-enhanced systems and methods for removing waste materials and liquid from the blood: Systems and methods convey the blood through a gap defined between an inner surface that is located about an axis and an outer surface that is concentric with the inner surface. At least one of the inner and outer surfaces carries a membrane that consists essentially of either a hemofiltration... Agent: Baxter Healthcare Corporation

20060278580 - Ultrathin porous nanoscale membranes, methods of making, and uses thereof: A process for forming a porous nanoscale membrane is described. The process involves applying a nanoscale film to one side of a substrate, where the nanoscale film includes a semiconductor material; masking an opposite side of the substrate; etching the substrate, beginning from the masked opposite side of the substrate... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP - Patent Group

20060278582 - Process for reducing contaminants in condensate resulting from the conversion of bauxite to alumina: This invention relates to a process for reducing the contaminants in condensate resulting from the refining of alumina.... Agent: Ashland Licensing And Intellectual Property LLC

20060278583 - Method for recycling sludge during waste-water treatment: A method for recycling sludge during waste-water treatment firstly utilizes a process of chemical coagulation to produce sludge rich in copper ions. The sludge is then leached in a sulfuric acid storage tank with sulfuric acid of concentration 1-2N, whereby a extractive solution with copper enrichment 18-39 g/L and residues... Agent: Hung-yuan Hsiao

20060278584 - Oil cleaning system and method: An oil cleaning system is provided having an oil source and a re-circulating oil flow conduit that is in fluid communication with the oil source and operable to draw an oil flow stream therefrom. A barrier filter is further provided and positioned in the oil flow conduit to filter particles... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20060278585 - Electrochemical treatment of an aqueous salt solution: A device (10) for producing a biocidal solution has a sealed and replaceable reservoir (16) with a low volume capacity which contains pre-prepared aqueous salt solution (18) with a pre-determined concentration, an electrolytic cell (20) for electrochemically treating the salt solution (18), a pump (28) for delivering a flow of... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20060278586 - Highly concentrated, biocidally active compositions and aqueous mixtures and methods of making the same: The present invention relates to liquid mixtures and compositions having high bromine concentrations that find use as biocides and processes for preparing them.... Agent: Edgar Spielman Albemarle Corporation

20060278587 - Methods and systems for converting waste into energy: A method for receiving animal waste from animal confinements or other concentrated animal waste sources and for converting the waste into a usable form is described. The waste contains both liquids and solids. The method includes separating the liquids and solids into separate waste streams, controlling an amount of moisture... Agent: John S. Beulick Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20060278588 - Apparatus and method for separating and concentrating fluids containing multiple components: An apparatus that allows for separating and collecting a fraction of a sample. The apparatus, when used with a centrifuge, allows for the creation of at least three fractions in the apparatus. It also provides for a new method of extracting the buffy coat phase from a whole blood sample.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20060272988 - High aspect ratio wastewater system: A leaching conduit comprising: a high aspect ratio channel; a first pipe in fluid communication with the high aspect ratio channel; and where the aspect ratio of the high aspect channel is configured to allow for aerobic conditions in and around the leaching conduit. A wastewater system comprising: a processing... Agent: Law Office Of Michael A. Blake

20060272989 - System for oxygenating water: A system for oxygenating water is provided. The system includes an oxygen generator for generating oxygen, a combining unit coupled to the oxygen generator for combining the oxygen with water, and a diffusion chamber coupled to the combining unit for receiving the combined water and oxygen and manipulating them into... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060272990 - Apparatus for tuning water: An apparatus for tuning water is provided. The apparatus includes a substance that creates a magnetic flux, and a coil with a portion thereof arranged in the magnetic flux. The coil has an input and an output, and, as water passes through the coil, it also passes through the magnetic... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060272991 - System for tuning water to target certain pathologies in mammals: A system for tuning water to target certain pathologies in mammals is provided. The system includes a plurality of coil sets in fluid communication. The system may be used as part of a system for producing and tuning super-oxygenated and structured water.... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060272992 - System for preparing water with a stable negative oxidation reduction potential (orp): A system for preparing water with a stable negative oxygenation reduction potential (ORP) is provided. The system includes a water preconditioning system configured to receive water from a water source and output water preconditioned for electrolysis, and an electrolysis device in fluid communication with the water preconditioning system and configured... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060272993 - Water preconditioning system: A water preconditioning system is provided. The system includes a circulating tank configured to receive therein water, an ozone machine in fluid communication with the circulating tank and configured to add ozone to the water as the water circulates through the ozone machine, and a magnetic structuring stage in fluid... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060272994 - Sealant filter: A filter assembly for filtering viscous fluid materials, including a filter body having an inlet and an outlet, a filter element having an open end and a closed end and a collar structure at the open end. The collar structure is retainable proximate the inlet end such that fluid flows... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20060272995 - Low spillage replaceable water filter assembly: A filter assembly includes a water filter assembly having a filter element sealingly disposed in a cartridge, and having an inlet and an outlet, the water filter assembly being substantially dripless when charged with water and disposed substantially horizontally. A manifold assembly is fluidly couplable at an inlet to a... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20060272996 - Device for removing impurities from a liquid: The invention relates to a device for removing impurities from a liquid, comprising a reservoir (2) for holding filtering material (4) at the bottom side (3) thereof on the one hand and a liquid, in particular at the upper side above the filtering material, on the other hand, a liquid... Agent: Olson & Hierl, Ltd.

20060272997 - Reverse osmosis filtering assembly: A filtering assembly for the reverse osmosis water treatment system is disclosed herein. The filtering assembly encloses the membrane unit in an air-tight space formed by a membrane unit cover and a membrane unit housing, both of which could be screwed together and separated apart easily by an ordinary person... Agent: Leong C Lei

20060272998 - Permeate connection for immersed membrane: An apparatus or system has a permeate pipe, alternately called a header, connected to a membrane unit, alternately called a cassette or a train of cassettes. A tank for holding the membrane unit has a notched portion in a top edge of a wall of the tank for receiving the... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20060272999 - Method and apparatus for a water filter backflush: A method and corresponding apparatus employ purified water to backflush a filtration device. Purified water includes water having a total dissolved solids reading less than that of the water being filtered. Examples of purified water may include water treated using reverse osmosis, steam distillation, or deionization processes, and the like.... Agent: Law Offices Of Christopher L. Makay 1634 Milam Building

20060273000 - Portable water filtering device: A portable water filtering device includes a body including a filtering tube and a pump between which a pipe is connected. Water enters the pump from a bottom thereof and is pumped into the filtering tube via operation of the piston of the pump so that the water pump into... Agent: Pro-techtor International Services

20060273001 - Spacer element for guiding flow media: In a spacer element for guiding a flow medium in apparatus for filtering and separating the flow medium by reverse osmosis and ultrafiltration wherein filter elements are disposed between adjacent spacer elements which are disc-shaped and each has a central opening with a plurality of spaced openings disposed around the... Agent: Klaus J. Bach

20060273002 - Drain filter apparatus: A drain filter apparatus includes a base portion formed of a flexible resilient plastic or rubber material and defining a center aperture therein. The center aperture supports a mesh filter element having a generally domed shape to facilitate the free flow of drain water through the drain filter apparatus while... Agent: Roy A. Ekstrand Ste. 150

20060273003 - Simplified filter device: The simplified type filtering device that includes a bowl 1 having a discharging port 13 on one side thereof and having on the other side thereof an opening portion 2 in which the separation membrane is loaded, the separation membrane for filtering the raw liquid therethrough, a filter plate 5... Agent: Nields & Lemack

20060273004 - Gas/ion species selective membrane support by multi-stage nano-hole array metal structure: An improved two-step replication process for fabrication of porous metallic membranes is provided. A negative of a porous non-metallic template is made by infiltration of a liquid precursor into the template, curing the precursor to form a solid negative, and removing the template to expose the negative. Metal is deposited... Agent: Lumen Intellectual Property Services, Inc.

20060273005 - Porous structures and methods for forming porous structures: A porous element is produced from a slurry of inorganic particles including a first plurality of inorganic particles having a first nominal size and a second plurality of inorganic particles having a second nominal size. The first nominal size is less than the second nominal size. The inorganic particles are... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20060273006 - System for enhancing oxygen: An apparatus for enhancing, structuring and/or pre-structuring oxygen includes a vessel having an inlet and an outlet so as to allow oxygen to pass therethrough, a pair of screens positioned within the vessel so as to form a gap therebetween, and a magnetic source configured to produce a magnetic flux... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060273007 - Submerged cross-flow filtration: A membrane filtration module having a plurality of permeable, hollow membranes is disclosed. In use, a pressure differential is applied across the walls of the permeable, hollow membranes when immersed in a liquid suspension containing suspended solids. Some of the liquid suspension passes through the walls of the membranes to... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi

20060273008 - Membrane adsorber device: The present invention is an adsorber membrane and a device containing one or more such membranes. Both the membrane and the device have a Peclet number (Pe) of at least 100. The membrane and the device are designed for the removal of trace contaminants in protein containing streams such as... Agent: Nields & Lemack

20060273009 - Mobile desalination plants and systems, and methods for producing desalinated water: Systems, methods, and apparatus for desalinating water are provided. A vessel includes a water intake system, a reverse osmosis system, a concentrate discharge system, a permeate transfer system, a power source, and a control system. The concentrate discharge system includes a plurality of concentrate discharge ports.... Agent: Ruden, Mcclosky, Smith, Schuster & Russell, P.A.

20060273012 - Column with additional fluid introduction: A chromatography column which comprises an adsorbent bed, located in a first fluid flow path between a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, is provided, and which comprises at least one distribution device, extending into the adsorbent bed and being adapted for fluid introduction. Furthermore methods are provided permitting preconditioning... Agent: Paul D. Greeley, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20060273010 - Systems for developing analytical device methods: Systems and processes for using the same for developing analytical device methods are provided. Also provided are computer program products for executing the subject processes.... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20060273011 - Systems for selecting analytical device methods: Systems and processes for using the same for selecting analytical device methods are provided. Also provided are computer program products for executing the subject processes.... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20060273013 - Versatile simulated moving bed systems: Distributed valve simulated moving beds are described in which junctions located between successive columns interrupt the flow of process fluid between columns, and either transmit the process fluid through a zone bypass to a succeeding column within the same zone or, if the junction is located between zones, direct the... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20060273014 - Arsenic-adsorbing ion exchanger: The present invention relates to a method for producing iron oxide/iron oxyhydroxide-containing carboxyl-bearing ion exchangers, which is characterized in that a) a bead-type carboxyl-containing ion exchanger is contacted in aqueous suspension with iron(III) salts or a′) an aminomethylated crosslinked polystyrene bead polymer is contacted in aqueous suspension with iron(III) salts... Agent: Jennifer R Seng Patent Department

20060273015 - Method for the removal of arsenic ions from water: A method for the removal of arsenic ions from water with a porous silica composition with an organofunctional moiety comprising a thio which binds the arsenic ion and is then removed from the water. The method comprises the quality of the water.... Agent: Ian C. Mcleod Mcleod & Moyne, P.C.

20060273018 - Method for making and conditioning super-oxygenated and structured water: A method for making super-oxygenated and structured water that includes receiving water from a source, preconditioning the water for electrolysis, performing electrolysis on the preconditioned water to produce alkaline water, combining the alkaline water with oxygen, spinning the alkaline water/oxygen combination, outputting super-oxygenated, tuned and structured water, receiving the super-oxygenated... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060273017 - Method for preconditioning water for electrolysis: A method for preconditioning water for electrolysis is provided. The method includes adding ozone to the water, and passing the water through a magnetic flux. The method may further include filtering water received from a water source prior to adding ozone to the water, irradiating the filtered water with UV... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060273030 - Method for preparing oxygenated water with a stable negative oxidation reduction potential (orp): A method for preparing oxygenated water with a stable negative oxydation reduction potential (ORP) is provided. The method includes preconditioning water received from a water source for electrolysis, performing electrolysis on the preconditioned water, outputting alkaline water and/or acidic water with a stable negative ORP (“negative ORP water”), combining the... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060273016 - Method for preparing water with a stable negative oxidation reduction potential (orp): A method for preparing water with a stable negative oxygenation reduction potential (ORP) is provided. The method includes preconditioning water received from a water source for electrolysis, performing electrolysis on the preconditioned water, and outputting alkaline water and/or acidic water with a stable negative ORP. The output water with a... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060273029 - Method for super-oxygenating water: A method for super-oxygenating water is provided. The method includes combining water and first oxygen, manipulating the combined water and first oxygen into a vortex so as to cause the first oxygen to diffuse into the water and yield first oxygenated water, combining the first oxygenated water with second oxygen,... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060273021 - Method for tuning super-oxygenated and structured water to have multiple attributes: A method for tuning super-oxygenated and structured water to have multiple attributes is provided. The method includes receiving oxygen enriched water into a coil system and passing the water therethrough, combining water output by the coil system with structured ozone, inputting the combined water and structured ozone to a multicoil... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060273020 - Method for tuning water: A method for tuning water to a desired frequency is provided. The method includes passing water through a magnetic flux in a spiral-type manner to tune the water to a desired frequency. The water may be passed through the magnetic flux in a spiral shaped tube which causes an abrupt... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060273019 - Method for tuning water to target certain pathologies in mammals: A method for tuning water to target certain pathologies in mammals is provided. The method includes passing the water through a plurality of coil sets in fluid communication. The method may be used as part of a method for producing and tuning super-oxygenated and structured water.... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060273022 - Processed water and therapeutic uses thereof: A physiologically ingestible composition of matter obtained by using super-oxygenated water, and the uses thereof, are provided. The obtaining method includes combining water with first oxygen, and manipulating the combined water and first oxygen into a vortex so as to cause the first oxygen to diffuse into the water and... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060273023 - Processed water and therapeutic uses thereof: A physiologically ingestible composition of matter obtained by using super-oxygenated water, and the uses thereof, are provided. The obtaining method includes combining water with first oxygen, and manipulating the combined water and first oxygen into a vortex so as to cause the first oxygen to diffuse into the water and... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060273024 - Processed water and therapeutic uses thereof: A physiologically ingestible composition of matter obtained by using super-oxygenated water, and the uses thereof, are provided. The obtaining method includes combining water with first oxygen, and manipulating the combined water and first oxygen into a vortex so as to cause the first oxygen to diffuse into the water and... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060273025 - Processed water and therapeutic uses thereof: A physiologically ingestible composition of matter obtained by preparing oxygenated water with a stable negative oxidation reduction potential (ORP), and the uses thereof, are provided. The obtaining method includes preconditioning water received from a water source for electrolysis, performing electrolysis on the preconditioned water, outputting alkaline water and/or acidic water... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060273026 - Processed water and therapeutic uses thereof: A physiologically ingestible composition of matter obtained by preparing oxygenated water with a stable negative oxidation reduction potential (ORP), and the uses thereof, are provided. The obtaining method includes preconditioning water received from a water source for electrolysis, performing electrolysis on the preconditioned water, outputting alkaline water and/or acidic water... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060273027 - Processed water and therapeutic uses thereof: A physiologically ingestible composition of matter obtained by preparing oxygenated water with a stable negative oxidation reduction potential (ORP), and the uses thereof, are provided. The obtaining method includes preconditioning water received from a water source for electrolysis, performing electrolysis on the preconditioned water, outputting alkaline water and/or acidic water... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060273028 - Processed water and therapeutic uses thereof: A physiologically ingestible composition of matter obtained by preparing oxygenated water with a stable negative oxidation reduction potential (ORP), and the uses thereof, are provided. The obtaining method includes preconditioning water received from a water source for electrolysis, performing electrolysis on the preconditioned water, outputting alkaline water and/or acidic water... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060273031 - Processed water and therapeutic uses thereof: A physiologically ingestible composition of matter obtained by preparing oxygenated water with a stable negative oxidation reduction potential (ORP), and the uses thereof, are provided. The obtaining method includes preconditioning water received from a water source for electrolysis, performing electrolysis on the preconditioned water, outputting alkaline water and/or acidic water... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060273032 - Processed water and therapeutic uses thereof: A physiologically ingestible composition of matter obtained by using super-oxygenated water, and the uses thereof, are provided. The obtaining method includes combining water with first oxygen, and manipulating the combined water and first oxygen into a vortex so as to cause the first oxygen to diffuse into the water and... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060273033 - Processed water and therapeutic uses thereof: A physiologically ingestible composition of matter obtained by preparing oxygenated water with a stable negative oxidation reduction potential (ORP), and the uses thereof, are provided. The obtaining method includes preconditioning water received from a water source for electrolysis, performing electrolysis on the preconditioned water, outputting alkaline water and/or acidic water... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060273034 - Processed water and therapeutic uses thereof: A physiologically ingestible composition of matter obtained by using super-oxygenated water, and the uses thereof, are provided. The obtaining method includes combining water with first oxygen, and manipulating the combined water and first oxygen into a vortex so as to cause the first oxygen to diffuse into the water and... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060273035 - Processed water and therapeutic uses thereof: A physiologically ingestible composition of matter obtained by preparing oxygenated water with a stable negative oxidation reduction potential (ORP), and the uses thereof, are provided. The obtaining method includes preconditioning water received from a water source for electrolysis, performing electrolysis on the preconditioned water, outputting alkaline water and/or acidic water... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060273036 - Hydrate-based reduction of fluid inventories and concentration of aqueous and other water-containing products: Toxic waste waters polluted with high levels of chemical byproducts of various industrial processes (e.g., waste water held in industrial holding ponds) are treated using gas hydrate to extract and remove fresh water from the polluted water, thus reducing the volume of toxic waste water inventories. Extracting fresh water by... Agent: Kenneth M. Fagin

20060273037 - Aquarium filter: An internal marine aquarium filter that provides protein skimming, biological, mechanical and chemical filtration is disclosed. The filter creates direct adjustable current for the aquarium independent of the activities of filtration and uses a pump. The filter includes an outer casing with dedicated areas for biological, mechanical and chemical filtration,... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20060273038 - Chemical cleaning for membranes: Membranes, for example immersed polymeric ultrafiltration or microfiltration membranes, are cleaned by contacting them with a chemical cleaner comprising one or more of a gluconate, a hydrosulfite, a metabisulfite or an acid, for example phosphoric acid. The membranes may have been exposed to organic or inorganic foulants, some of which... Agent: Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel, LLP

20060273039 - Water treatment mixture and methods and system for use: A product and apparatus for cleaning water or industrial and sewage waste water includes a mixture of diatomite that is heated and stirred to impart an enhanced negative electrical charge to the diatomite. A mixture of approximately 50% aluminium chloride (AlCl3) by volume is blended to provide a powder mixture... Agent: Fleit Kain Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco

20060273040 - High molecular weight polymers containing pendant salicylic acid groups for clarifying bayer process liquors: A high molecular weight, water-soluble polymer comprising pendant salicylic acid groups and having a weight average molecular weight of at least about 2,000,000 daltons and use of the polymer for clarifying red mud-containing liquors generated in the Bayer process for the recovery of alumina from bauxite.... Agent: Nalco Company

20060273043 - Method for producing super-oxygenated and structured water: A method for producing super-oxygenated and structured water is provided. The method includes receiving water from a source, preconditioning the water for electrolysis, performing electrolysis on the preconditioned water to produce alkaline water, combining the alkaline water with oxygen, spinning the alkaline water/oxygen combination, and outputting super-oxygenated and structured water.... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060273041 - On-board water treatment and management process and apparatus: A contactor apparatus is provided to treat ballast water that has exited a ballast tank before being expelled from a water-borne ship. Within the contactor apparatus, means are provided for supplying a combination of acoustic energy and dissolved ozone. The acoustic energy can be provided at two or more frequencies... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.C.

20060273042 - System for tuning super-oxygenated and structured water to have multiple attributes: A system for tuning super-oxygenated and structured water to have multiple attributes is provided. The system includes a coil system, a multicoil system in fluid communication with the coil system, and a structured ozone machine configured to supply ozone to fluid passing between the coil system and the multicoil system.... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060273044 - Chemical treatment for control of sulfide odors in waste materials: Disclosed herein is a process for removing odorants from a waste system comprising treating said waste system with ferric nitrate at a ratio of less than 2.4 parts nitrate oxygen for each 1 part reduced sulfur.... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20060273045 - Method of spinning water and oxygen for producing super-oxygenated and structured water: A method for producing super-oxygenated or structured water is provided. The method can include receiving preconditioned water, combining the preconditioned water with oxygen, passing the preconditioned water/oxygen combination through a cone system that spins the combination and outputting super-oxygenated structured water. The method may be used with a cone system... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060273046 - System and method for treating wastewater: A wastewater treatment system treating excess wastewater from a sewer system includes a generally vertically oriented first shaft structure adapted to receive excess wastewater from the sewer system, a generally vertically oriented second shaft structure spaced apart from the first shaft structure, a connector passage extending between the shaft structures... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20060273047 - Filtration of vegetable slurries: Discloses a two stage filtration system for treatment of fibrous vegetable matter, particularly oilseed materials such as oil-extracted canola flakes to separate the low valued fibrous material from soluble material and small non-structural water-insoluble material of higher value. The filtration system receives a vegetable matter slurry and passes the slurry... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon, LLP

20060273048 - Internally fed rotary screen manure separator: Systems and methods for separating manure into a solid fraction and a liquid fraction, and optionally further separating the liquid fraction to capture a sand-rich second solid fraction and a second liquid fraction. Some separators have an adjustable inclination, forcing the manure passage to be slightly up hill, with an... Agent: Craig Taylor Law Office, PLLC

20060273050 - Apparatus and method for separating and concentrating fluids containing multiple components: An apparatus that allows for separating and collecting a fraction of a sample. The apparatus, when used with a centrifuge, allows for the creation of at various fractions in the apparatus. A buoy system that may include a first buoy portion and a second buoy member operably interconnected may be... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20060273049 - Method and apparatus for separating and concentrating a component from a multi-component material including macroparticles: An apparatus that allows for separating and collecting a fraction of a sample. The apparatus, when used with a centrifuge, allows for the creation of at least three fractions in the apparatus. It also provides for a new method of extracting the buffy coat phase from a whole blood sample... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20060273051 - Oil-based sludge separation and treatment system: An apparatus for treating oil-based sludge includes a boiler, a heat exchanger having a circulatory steam path in fluid communication with the boiler and a sludge path receiving sludge, a plurality of serially-aligned mixers in fluid communication with the sludge path of the heat exchanger, a separation tank in fluid... Agent: Carter J. White Legal Department M-i L.L.C.