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Arrangement for cleaning contaminated ground water

US5082053A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateSep 13, 1990
Grant dateJan 21, 1992
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Expiry dateSep 13, 2010

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
  • CPC primaryC02F2103/06
  • WIPO fieldEnvironmental technology
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

An arrangement for cleaning contaminated ground water and the ground through which it passes with a shaft extending to the region of the ground water to be cleaned has a shaft wall including a plurality of water permeable and water impermeable wall portions with one of the water impermeable wall portions located between water permeable wall portions, a tightly inserted partition located above a ground water level in the one water impermeable wall portion and having an opening, a throughgoing passage extending in the opening and forming a part of a flow path of a ground water and ending above a ground water level in the well shaft, a circulating pump arranged in the well shaft for circulating the ground water along the flow path, and a filter arranged in the well shaft in the flow path of the ground water circulated by the circulating pump.

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