US 12,252,415 B2
Water filtration and aeration unit
Keyur Gorji, Sugar Land, TX (US)
Assigned to WETS LLC, Sugar Land, TX (US)
Filed by WETS LLC, Sugar Land, TX (US)
Filed on Jun. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/834,245.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/208,757, filed on Jun. 9, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0402776 A1, Dec. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. C02F 1/76 (2023.01); B01D 24/10 (2006.01); B01D 24/40 (2006.01); B01D 24/46 (2006.01); B01F 23/21 (2022.01); B01F 23/213 (2022.01); B01F 23/23 (2022.01); B01F 23/232 (2022.01); B01F 23/237 (2022.01); C02F 1/00 (2023.01); C02F 1/20 (2023.01); C02F 1/52 (2023.01); B01F 101/00 (2022.01); C02F 101/20 (2006.01); C02F 101/32 (2006.01); C02F 103/00 (2006.01); C02F 103/06 (2006.01)
CPC C02F 1/004 (2013.01) [B01D 24/105 (2013.01); B01D 24/40 (2013.01); B01D 24/4636 (2013.01); B01F 23/2132 (2022.01); B01F 23/214 (2022.01); B01F 23/2319 (2022.01); B01F 23/2322 (2022.01); B01F 23/237611 (2022.01); C02F 1/008 (2013.01); C02F 1/20 (2013.01); C02F 1/52 (2013.01); C02F 1/76 (2013.01); B01D 2101/02 (2013.01); B01D 2101/04 (2013.01); B01F 2101/305 (2022.01); C02F 2101/203 (2013.01); C02F 2101/206 (2013.01); C02F 2101/322 (2013.01); C02F 2103/007 (2013.01); C02F 2103/06 (2013.01); C02F 2209/40 (2013.01); C02F 2209/42 (2013.01); C02F 2303/02 (2013.01); C02F 2303/04 (2013.01); C02F 2303/16 (2013.01)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A combined water aeration and filtration unit (WAFU), said WAFU comprising a single tank;
a) said tank with a vent section at a top of said WAFU and above an aeration section;
b) said aeration section above a filter section at a bottom of said WAFU;
c) said vent section comprising one or more demisters and one or more vents for detraining water and providing a dry air exit from said WAFU;
d) said aeration section comprising a water inlet ending in a spray nozzle near a top of said aeration section to turn incoming dirty water into water droplets;
e) said aeration section comprising a forced air blower on a side or top of said aeration section for blowing air through said water droplets in rate sufficient to remove volatile organic compounds and precipitate manganese and iron;
f) said aeration section further comprising one or more protrusions on an inside wall of said tank to force water from said inside wall into an interior of said tank;
g) a backwash collection trough and backwash water outlet positioned above said filter section for removing dirty backwash water from said WAFU; and
h) said filter section having one or more filters therein and having a drain and clean water outlet near a bottom of said filter section for egress of clean water from said WAFU.