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Horizontal-axis aerator for purification of waste water

US4539112A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 21, 1981
Grant dateSep 3, 1985
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Expiry dateSep 21, 2001

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY02W10/10
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A horizontal-axis aerator for use in a waste water purification system includes a cylinder having a horizontal axis, a first series of parallel blades on the surface of the cylinder and extending in directions nonparallel to the axis, and a second series of parallel blades on the surface of the cylinder and extending in directions nonparallel to the axis. The directions of the first series of blades are opposite to the directions of the second series of blades, with respect to the axis. The first and second series of blades intersect each other, such that upon the aerator being partially immersed in a body of waste water to be treated and being rotated therein, at any rotational position of the aerator about the axis, a constant portion of the total blade length of all of the blades of the aerator will be immersed in the waste water.

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