Liquid purification or separation – Processes – Ion exchange or selective sorption
Patent
1997-01-15
1998-10-27
McCarthy, Neil
Liquid purification or separation
Processes
Ion exchange or selective sorption
210748, 210749, 210169, A01K 6304
Patent
active
058274316
ABSTRACT:
A system whereby freshwater and saltwater aquaria water may be stripped and sterilized to near laboratory quality distilled water standards and injected with appropriate chemicals and compounds necessary to reproduce the conditions indigenous to the native habitat of any particular species in which you have chosen to raise in your aquarium. This system is attached to standard washer and dryer water outlets and is connected to the device with a standard 3/4" garden hose. Tap water is run through a cation resin exchange chamber to pull out negatively charged ions and then passes through an identical chamber containing anion resin exchange media to pull the positively charged ions out of the water coming through. The end result being near zero ppm total dissolved solids. Upon passing through both ion exchange chambers the water is then moved to the outlet where it is run through an eight watt ultraviolet germicidal sterilization chamber to kill any incoming microscopic or submicroscopic organic life forms that would enter the aquaria and introduce germs, pathogen, bacteria or viruses that would be harmful to the fish. Coming from the outlet of the sterilization chamber through a garden hose connected to the chemical injection unit where the mixture of either acids or bases and/or any other necessary chemicals, nutrients or media that are indigenous to the native habitat required in the aquaria would be drawn through a siphon process from a spill-proof vented reservoir injected into the stream of purified water and would be replaced into the aquarium at the exact same pH and with the exact same chemical properties of the water which was removed prior to the refilling of the tank. The water is forced through the device by hydrostatic pressure which can be adjusted at the source. The temperature can also be adjusted at the source by using a Y hose adapter.
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Green Theodore M.
Jones James Phillip
Jones James Phillip
McCarthy Neil
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