Biological purification loop device and method having deflector plate within guide pipe

US4954257A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Tecon GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Alfons Vogelpohl · Clausthal-Zellerfeld, DE
• Norbert Rabiger · Bremen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 23, 1989
• Grant date: Sep 4, 1990
• Expiry date: Feb 23, 2009

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02W10/10
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The present invention relates to a reactor for biological purification of pollutant-containing water in a closed vessel by means of loop operation. This vessel contains, disposed vertically and concentrically with respect to its jacket and to each other, an insertable pipe that is open at both ends, into which a nozzle projects for the purpose of supplying the water-gas-biomass mixture to be purified, and a guide pipe that is open at both ends and that forms an inner annulus with the internal insertable pipe and an outer annulus with the reactor jacket. This guide pipe projects above and below the ends of the insertable pipe. A deflector plate is mounted below the insertable pipe but inside the guide pipe, so that part of the biomass-water mixture is deflected back into the inner annulus. A conically shaped sedimentation chamber is disposed in the lower part of the reactor.