A self-cleaning pool or spa filter system having a filter body housing a set of filter cartridges, each filter cartridge rotatably connected to a filter holder, a spray manifold having an inlet for receiving water from a pump and a plurality of sprayers, a shaft connected to the filter holder and a motor, which can rotate the shaft and thus the filter holder, causing the set of filter cartridges to rotate about the shaft, exposing lengthwise each filter cartridge to the sprayers; a sun gear attached to the first shaft; and a set of planet gears, each planet gear being concentrically associated with one filter cartridge and engaged by the sun gear, causing transfer of a rotational movement of the sun gear to each planet gear and to each filter cartridge, causing each filter cartridge to rotate, exposing the entire circumference of each filter cartridge to the plurality of sprayers.

A filter (5) for a return line (L1, L2) for hydraulic oil to a hydraulic tank (2), which filter (5) has a filter element (11). The filter (5) is arranged to filter the hydraulic oil through the filter element (11) when the hydraulic oil is below a first oil level (H1) in the filter (5), and the filter (5) has an arrangement (15) to cause the hydraulic oil to bypass the filter element (11) when the oil level (H) in the filter (5) exceeds the first oil level (H) without causing any significant back pressure.

There is disclosed a liquid filter system that includes a liquid filter apparatus configured to self-clean without removal of the filter apparatus from the filter system. The filter apparatus uses both a filter media for filtering solids as well as a spin motion imparted to fluid being filtered so that centrifugal force can remove solids from the liquid being filtered. The liquid filter system also includes a gas pulse nozzle in fluid communication with the liquid filter apparatus and is configured to flow gas into the filter media to expel water and debris trapped in the filter media without removing the filter media from the filter system.

In a debris trap that may be used in an Emergency Core Cooling System of a nuclear power plant, the filter media is arranged to define both filtration and bypass flowpaths that are in fluid communication with one another. At least initially, each of the filtration and bypass flowpaths are open, and the filtration and bypass flowpaths have relatively low and relatively high head loss, respectively. The debris trap is operative so that flow through the debris trap may passively, and typically gradually, transition from the filtration flowpaths to the bypass flowpath in response to the filter media collecting increasing amounts of debris. More specifically, initially substantially all of the flow may be through the filtration flowpaths, and thereafter the filtration flowpaths may become substantially obstructed so that substantially all of the flow is through the bypass flowpath.

A seawater suction system (10) is provided comprising first and second conduits (12, 14) connected to one another so as to form an internal fluid passage allowing fluid communication between the two conduits (12, 14), wherein the first conduit (12) is formed from at least two layers of a first material and the second conduit (14) is formed from a single layer of a second material which is different from the first material.

A filtering unit is provided which may include a filter cap, a filter basin, a filter or membrane within the filter basin and an enclosed fluid intake channel, which may dispense fluid into the filter basin. The enclosed fluid intake channel may be coupled to the inlet port of the filtering unit and may slope in a downward manner to the bottom of the filter basin. The intake channel may have an open end at the bottom of the filter basin. The open end may be substantially parallel with the filter basin bottom and may dispense fluid into the filter basin. The fluid may flow from the intake channel and into the filter basin in a laminar manner. The fluid may fill the filter basin and flow from the filtering unit through an outlet port of the filtering unit.

A self-back flushing filtration assembly includes an inner container, an outer container, and a filter cartridge. The inner container is configured to receive treated water by way of a filter cartridge. The outer container is configured to hold untreated water and sleeve the filter cartridge and the inner container. The inner container and the filter cartridge are moveably positioned within the outer container to compress and draw the untreated water through filter media within the filter cartridge by way of a filter cap. The filter cap is movably positioned within a cavity of the outer container to draw treated water from the inner container through the filter media of the filter cartridge.

Apparatus and methodologies are provided for pumping fluids from a body of fluids. Herein, an apparatus operably connected to at least one pump for pumping fluids from a body of fluids is provided, the apparatus having a pump hose with a first intake end for receiving the pumped fluids and a second outlet end operably connected to the pump, a pump intake assembly, fluidically connected to the intake end of the pump hose, the pump intake assembly having at least one fluid control valve, a rotatable filter cage, centrally disposed about the pump intake assembly, and at least one fluid injection pipe centrally disposed within the pump hose for supporting the at least one fluid control valve, and for injecting fluids to drive the rotation of the rotatable filter cage. Herein, methods of utilizing the fluid pumping apparatus are provided.

A leak indicator includes a substrate comprising a permeable material with an immobilized reactant embedded in the substrate at a fixed location and a mobile reactant disposed at an initial location on the substrate. The initial location of the mobile reactant is spaced apart from the fixed location of the immobilized reactant. The mobile reactant is transported through the substrate by water to the fixed location of the immobilized reactant. The mobile reactant and the immobilized reactant interact to indicate a leak when the mobile reactant reaches the immobilized reactant.

An oil filter assembly is disclosed for a machine, such as an internal combustion engine, that has an oil output port and an oil input port. A mounting plate may be fixed with an outer enclosure and may be adapted for securing to the machine. The mounting plate may be further adapted to conduct oil from the machine into a peripheral portion of the outer enclosure, and then returning oil from a central portion of the outer enclosure back to the machine. Oil may pass from the peripheral portion to the central portion through a primary filter having a first porosity. A pressure-actuated valve may be fixed fluidly between the peripheral portion and central portion of the outer enclosure. Oil may pass through the pressure-actuated valve only when an oil pressure differential between the peripheral portion and the central portion of the outer enclosure exceeds a predetermined threshold pressure. A secondary filter may have a second porosity greater than the first porosity, and may be fixed fluidly between the pressure-actuated valve and the central portion of the outer enclosure.