The degassing apparatus removes liquid from a vacuum tank (1) with a suction pump (6) and supplies that liquid to a storage tank (9), sprays storage tank liquid into the vacuum tank through a convergent nozzle (7), removes gas from liquid in a state of reduced pressure inside the vacuum tank, and stores the degassed liquid in the storage tank. The storage tank is an airtight hermetically sealed tank provided with a reduced pressure retaining valve that discharges gas accumulated inside the storage tank.

A vacuum airlift system for treating an aqueous effluent includes an upflow liquid portion, where the upflow liquid portion is configured to retain a fluid, and a fluid inlet, the fluid inlet being fluidly coupled with the upflow liquid portion, where the fluid inlet is positioned at about a bottom of the upflow liquid portion. The vacuum airlift system can also include a downflow liquid portion, where the downflow liquid portion is fluidly coupled with the upflow liquid portion, and a fluid outlet, the fluid outlet being fluidly coupled with the downflow liquid portion, where the fluid outlet is positioned at about a bottom of the downflow liquid portion. The vacuum airlift system can also include a plurality of aerators fed by one or more fluidic oscillators, the plurality of aerators being coupled to the upflow liquid column.

The present invention makes public a method and an apparatus for the revalorization of various organic waste, by means of physics and mechanics. The bubbles are produced and injected into the mixture in the sealed tank under depressure, then establish the movement of toric rotation in the vertical direction. The high-speed movement bubble carrying focused energy vigorously collide into the mixture, thus showing the Rheo-fluidizing effect (Shear thinning), decreasing the viscosity and depolymerizing long-chain molecules. This achieves active bacteria killing, separation, concentration and de-emulsification; the solution's advantage is applied to various organic residue, with short and efficient processing cycles, without producing unpleasant odors and is non-polluting, chemical free, at low temperature, low energy consumption, no GHG emission, preserving the microorganisms and nutrients of organic matter, and separating the pollutants such as the oils and fats. The usage of the output is unlimited, the invention is helpful to restore the ecosystem.

A vacuum airlift system for treating an aqueous effluent includes an upflow liquid portion, where the upflow liquid portion is configured to retain a fluid, and a fluid inlet, the fluid inlet being fluidly coupled with the upflow liquid portion, where the fluid inlet is positioned at about a bottom of the upflow liquid portion. The vacuum airlift system can also include a downflow liquid portion, where the downflow liquid portion is fluidly coupled with the upflow liquid portion, and a fluid outlet, the fluid outlet being fluidly coupled with the downflow liquid portion, where the fluid outlet is positioned at about a bottom of the downflow liquid portion. The vacuum airlift system can also include a plurality of aerators fed by one or more fluidic oscillators, the plurality of aerators being coupled to the upflow liquid column.

This disclosure provides an integrated system and method for producing purified water, hydrogen, and oxygen from contaminated water. The contaminated water may be derived from regolith-based resources on the moon, Mars, near-Earth asteroids, or other destination in outer space. The integrated system and method utilize a cold trap to receive the contaminated water in a vapor phase and selectively freeze out water from one or more volatiles. A heat source increases temperature in the cold trap to vaporize the frozen contaminated water to produce a gas stream of water vapor and volatiles. A chemical scrubber may remove one or more volatiles. The integrated system and method utilize ionomer membrane technology to separate the water vapor from remaining volatiles. The water vapor is delivered for crew use or delivered to an electrolyzer to produce hydrogen and oxygen.

The present disclosure describes a desalination system, comprising a membrane distillation unit; a preheater having a liquid inlet and a liquid outlet, the outlet being in communication with the inlet; an evaporator in communication with the liquid outlet of the MD, and having a fluid inlet configured to provide heat to aqueous liquid in the evaporator, the evaporator having a vapor outlet; at least one adsorption-desorption unit, having a vapor inlet in communication with the vapor outlet of the evaporator, the AD including a fluid inlet configured to receive either a heating or a cooling fluid and a fluid outlet, the AD having a vapor outlet and further including a fluid inlet in communication with the fluid inlet of the AD, a fluid outlet in communication with the heating fluid inlet of the preheater; and a condenser in communication with the permeate vapor outlet of the MD or the AD or both and having a condensation outlet.

The disclosure refers to a method, reaction chamber and system for treatment of liquids in continuous flow including the steps of receiving a liquid for treatment in a reaction chamber; converting q flow of liquid for treatment in a biphasic liquid-gas flow; directing the biphasic flow to a central section of the reaction chamber, where an electric field is applied; ionizing the gaseous fraction of the biphasic flow that passes through said central section sustaining an ionization regime generating non-thermal plasma throughout the central section of the reaction chamber leading the biphasic flow under the ionization regime to a discharge section of the reaction chamber, where the electric field is applied, generating the deionization of the gaseous fraction and causing the biphasic flow to reduce its velocity, which results in the condensation of biphasic flow; and removing a flow of treated liquid from said discharge section.

A method of producing a final product from a wastewater dissolved air flotation (DAF) sludge which includes the following dewatering step: 5—dewatering of the sludge, an aged sludge or a pre-processed sludge to produce a sludge filter cake and a filtrate; such that the pre-processed is sludge, or aged sludge, that has undergone additional processing steps prior to dewatering and aged sludge is sludge that has been stored for a period of time, wherein the dewatering step is a mechanical dewatering step 10 carried out at a maximum of 30° C. which results in a sludge filter cake that does not flow under its own mass.

This disclosure provides an integrated system and method for producing purified water, hydrogen, and oxygen from contaminated water. The contaminated water may be derived from regolith-based resources on the moon, Mars, near-Earth asteroids, or other destination in outer space. The integrated system and method utilize a cold trap to receive the contaminated water in a vapor phase and selectively freeze out water from one or more volatiles. A heat source increases temperature in the cold trap to vaporize the frozen contaminated water to produce a gas stream of water vapor and volatiles. A chemical scrubber may remove one or more volatiles. The integrated system and method utilize ionomer membrane technology to separate the water vapor from remaining volatiles. The water vapor is delivered for crew use or delivered to an electrolyzer to produce hydrogen and oxygen.

A solar distillation system includes at least one solar panel configured to reflect sunlight, and a distillation tube adjacent the at least one solar panel that is to receive a liquid to be processed into fresh water. The liquid flows through the distillation tube and is heated by the reflected sunlight. At least one supplemental distillation unit is connected to the distillation tube and has at least one curved surface to receive the reflected sunlight. The least one supplemental distillation unit includes a plurality of sprayers configured to spray the liquid onto the at least one curved surface to be further processed into fresh water.