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• the present invention relates to a water purification device and a process for water purification and in
• a water purification device that may be used as a gravity fed system or adapted to be connected to the main water supply.
• the invention has been developed primarily for use in drinking water application and will be described
• Gravity fed devices are available where it is possible to achieve 6 log removal of bacteria, 4 log removal of virus and 3 log removal of cysts using filtration in combination with biocide action. Gravity fed devices function in the absence of pressurised and running water.
• WO 2005095284 discloses a gravity fed water purification system comprising a filtration unit adapted to separate particulate and soluble material from the input water and this is in the form of a carbon block and usually has an additional non-woven fabric filter, a chemical dispensing unit such that flow rate of water exiting the filtration unit is controlled by a flow control means before the water encounters a biocide dispensed by the chemical dispensing unit, the water thereafter being retained in a retention chamber for a predetermined period of time before exiting the water purification system through a scavenger means adapted to separate the dispensed biocide and its by-products from the exit water.
• This device is quite complex having a number of replaceable parts.
• purification device comprising an upper and a lower chamber comprising an outlet means for collecting purified water and a filter medium for removing suspended
• the biocide system integral with it is a device which may dispense a unit dose of biocide and water may be fed into a chamber where the biocide could be dispensed.
• the disadvantage with solid biocides is that they degrade on exposure to air.
• WO08083896 discloses a gravity fed water purification device which may incorporate controlled dosing of a liquid biocide.
• the device uses a dosing passage comprising a venturi where a top chamber is in fluid communication with a bottom chamber, and water may flow from the top chamber to the bottom chamber.
• the water in this system has to flow at a high flow rate and the dosing rate depends on the rate of flow of water.
• Dosing of the biocide is caused by a negative (suction) pressure at the discharge end of the liquid dosing tube, which is caused by water flowing through a venturi, which is connected to the discharge end of the tube in an air-tight manner.
• the air pressure in the compartment containing the liquid biocide in this case, is at atmospheric pressure, which is "sucked" out of the biocide containing
• venturi based dosing system is highly sensitive to the physical dimensions, and control of dosage is more difficult.
• the system requires a lot of material for construction thus making it expensive.
• EP2184263 (Unilever) discloses a gravity fed water
• the device comprises of a biocide unit having the biocide in fluid communication with the reservoir, the reservoir is separated from the scavenger unit having the scavenger media by a wall, and the
• scavenger unit is in fluid communication with the
• the present inventors have designed a liquid biocide dosing system as well as an arrangement for delaying the contact of water into which a biocide has been dispensed with a filter cum biocide scavenging means and adapting this to gravity fed water purification device.
• WO04074182A discloses a flow control means to control the leach of a solid biocide by controlling the flow of water into the solid biocide dispensing unit.
• the dosing of the biocide into the water is by the gradual erosion of the solid biocide tablet by contact with water, whose flow is controlled by means of the flow regulator which in turn controls the erosion of the biocide tablet. It does not disclose how to control the dosing of a liquid biocide .
• US4093551 discloses a device for purifying water in small sewer systems includes means for automatic addition of a chemically active liquid to the water passing through the device.
• the invention eliminates the need of any movable parts by using two siphon tubes controlling the liquid supply.
• One of the siphon tubes is traversed by the sewer water and the corresponding flow generates a suction which is relied upon to transfer the chemically active liquid through the second siphon tube.
• a second siphon one end of which is dipped into a liquid biocide pool, has its discharge end placed within the first siphon. Hence liquid biocide is "sucked” into the siphons as water flows through the first siphon.
• the present inventors have designed two siphons to provide a means to delay the introduction of the biocide added water into the biocide scavenging section and these siphons do not control the dosage of the liquid biocide.
• the present inventors thus have designed a novel liquid dosing device that is controlled by a positive pressure created by hydrostatic head of water and providing two siphons arranged in a definite fashion it has been
• the present inventors have been able to design a novel biocide dosing system by using a pressure transmitting tube along with a siphon discharge mechanism.
• the relative position of the siphon discharge mechanism with respect to the pressure transmitting tube allows the purification device to work properly.
• the geometry of the tube along with its submerged length controls the biocide dosing.
• the present device is designed without the fill cup thus making it easier for miniaturization.
• Another object of the present invention is to provide a water purification device that can be used as gravity fed device as well as adapted to be used in inline systems. It is yet another object of the present invention to provide a dwell time means inside a water purification device to ensue that even the first drop of water that is coming out from the water purification device is
• a water purification device comprising a water purification chamber comprising:
• biocide dispensing box that is in fluid communication with a biocide storage compartment and a biocide
• the biocide dispensing box is connected to a pressure transmitting tube and the free end of said tube is extending downwards into the water purification chamber; said water purification chamber is in fluid communication with a filter chamber through an inverted X U' shaped inflow siphon discharge mechanism with legs of unequal length; wherein the opening of the small leg of the inflow siphon discharge mechanism is above the bottom of the water purification chamber; the long leg extending into the filter chamber and the top of the inverted X U' shaped inflow siphon discharge mechanism is above the free end of the tube.
• a water purification device wherein the inflow siphon discharge mechanism is in fluid communication with the filter chamber through a residence time chamber and in turn with an outflow siphon discharge mechanism wherein the outflow siphon discharge mechanism is encased in the residence time chamber.
• FIG 1 is an embodiment of the water purification device according to the invention.
• Figure 2 is a further preferred embodiment of the water purification device according to the invention with a dwell time providing means.
• Figure 3 is another embodiment of the water purification device according to the invention wherein the biocide dispensing unit is encased inside the water purification chamber .
• a water purification chamber comprising:
• biocide dispensing box that is in fluid communication with a biocide storage compartment and a biocide
• the biocide dispensing box is connected to a pressure transmitting tube and the free end of said tube is extending downwards into the water purification chamber; said water purification chamber is in fluid communication with a filter chamber through an inverted X U' shaped inflow siphon discharge mechanism with legs of unequal length; wherein the opening of the small leg of the inflow siphon discharge mechanism is above the bottom of the water purification chamber; the long leg extending into the filter chamber and the top of the inverted X U' shaped inflow siphon discharge mechanism is above the free end of the tube.
• the tube may be of different shapes and sizes and may have different cross-sections.
• the tube cross-section may have rectangular, circular, polygonal, elliptical or different other geometrical shapes.
• the tube may be tapered along any direction completely or partially.
• the device of the present invention can be manufactured in different capacity and sizes e.g. 1, 2, 3, 5 liters or larger .
• the biocide may be provided as a solid or in a liquid form. When it is in the solid form the device is designed to dissolve right amount of the solid to provide the correct quantity of liquid biocide in the biocide
• the biocide is preferably selected from any halogen releasing compounds and preferably chlorine releasing biocide including chlorinated trisodium
• Suitable liquid biocides that can be used in the device of the invention include aqueous solutions of sodium
• hypochlorite sodium dichloro-isocyanuric acid, iodine, quaternary ammonium compounds or gluteraldehyde .
• Most preferred liquid biocide is an aqueous solution of sodium hypochlorite. When sodium hypochlorite is the liquid biocide used, it is added in the biocide storage
• the filter can be combined together with a biocide scavenger.
• the filter-cum-biocide scavenger preferably comprises an activated carbon block filter media.
• the activated carbon block filter media comprises powder activated carbon (PAC) and a binder which are well mixed and made into a block by pressure and heat
• the PAC is preferably selected from bituminous coal, coconut shell/wood charcoal, petroleum tar.
• the PAC used has a size uniformity co ⁇ efficient of less than 2, or more preferably less than 1.5, a carbon tetrachloride number exceeding 50 ⁇ 6 , more preferably exceeding 60%.
• the filter-cum-biocide scavenger is further provided with a particulate filter that is a single or multi-layered non-woven fibrous-fabric filter wherein the outermost layer is pleated.
• the filter could alternately comprise of a combination of a pleated and spirally wound fabric filter .
• Particularly preferred carbon block filter media are those disclosed in GB2390987, more preferably that disclosed in our co-pending application 320/MUM/2004.
• the co-pending application describes a carbon block filter media for use in gravity fed filters comprising powder activated carbon (PAC) having a particle size such that 95 wt% of the particles pass through 50 mesh and not more than 12% passes through 200 mesh and a binder material having a Melt Flow Rate (MFR) of less than 5.
• Further preferred carbon block filter media has 55 to 80 wt % of the PAC particles in the particle size range of 100 to 200 mesh in the lower 50 volume% of the carbon block filter media.
• the discharge mechanism may be a tap or a bellow actuated hand pump discussed later.
• FIG. 1 is an embodiment of the water purification device according to the invention.
• the device has a water purification chamber (1) which is provided with a cover
• the water purification chamber comprises of a biocide dispensing box (3) which is in fluid communication with a biocide storage compartment (5) and a biocide dispensing port (4) .
• the biocide dispensing box is connected to a pressure transmitting tube (2) which is extended downwards into the water purification chamber.
• the tube is in fluid communication with the biocide dispensing box.
• the water purification chamber is in fluid communication with a filter chamber (10) having filter- cum-biocide scavenger (7) through an inverted X U' shaped inflow siphon discharge mechanism (13) .
• the opening of the small leg of the inflow siphon discharge mechanism is above the bottom of the water purification chamber.
• the filter is positioned on the partition wall that separates the water purification chamber and the pure water discharge chamber.
• the inflow siphon discharge mechanism is provided to operatively connect the water purification chamber and the filter chamber such that the water from the water purification chamber flows into the filter chamber only through the inflow siphon discharge
• the air vent (12) provided at the filter chamber allows the inflow siphon discharge mechanism to operate by allowing an upwardly directed passage for air to exit the filter chamber.
• the exit of water from the filter chamber is through the filter-cum-biocide
• the top of the inverted X U' shaped inflow siphon discharge mechanism is above the free end of the tube to ensure that no water should pass through siphon discharge mechanism without the addition of required amount of biocide.
• the water tight cover (11) provided at the filter chamber ensures that water enters the filter Chamber only through the inflow siphon discharge
• the inflow siphon discharge mechanism begins to discharge water into the filter chamber.
• water flows through the filter- cum-biocide scavenger which removes colloidal impurities from the water as well as the residual biocide, and discharges water into the pure water discharge chamber (8), pure water devoid of biocide is available from pure water discharge chamber, through a dispensing means such as a tap ( 9) .
• purification chamber creates an air pressure in the tube and enables the discharge of the biocide from the biocide dispensing box into the water purification chamber through the biocide dispensing port.
• Figure 2 is another embodiment of the water purification device according to the invention with a dwell time providing means.
• Figure 2 is showing a water purification chamber (1), provided at its bottom inner section a filter chamber (10) that encloses the filter-cum-biocide
• the filter chamber is provided with a water-tight cover (11) and an air vent (12) .
• the biocide dispensing box (3), biocide dispensing port (4), biocide storage compartment (5), and tube (2) are in their
• FIG. 2 there is provided a residence time chamber (14) with an outflow siphon discharge mechanism (15) .
• the outflow siphon discharge mechanism is encased in the residence time chamber.
• the residence time chamber is having an air vent (16) .
• the air vent provided at the residence time chamber allows the outflow siphon discharge mechanism to operate by allowing an upwardly directed passage for air to exit the residence time chamber.
• the inflow siphon discharge mechanism (13) is operatively connected with the residence time chamber.
• the inflow siphon discharge mechanism is in fluid communication with the filter chamber through the residence time chamber and in turn with the outflow siphon discharge mechanism.
• the device of Figure 2 is designed in such a manner by way of dual residence time, it ensures that even for the first drop of water that is coming out from the pure water discharge chamber is free from all harmful microorganisms.
• filling of water purification chamber creates an air pressure in the tube which is then transmitted in the biocide dispensing box causing dosing of biocide through the biocide dispensing port.
• the level of water in the water purification chamber reaches the highest level of inflow siphon discharge mechanism, the water mixed with biocide then enters into the residence time chamber through the inflow siphon discharge mechanism. After entering into the residence time chamber water starts to fills up the residence time chamber.
• the water mixed with biocide then enters into the filter chamber through the outflow siphon discharge mechanism, thereby providing dual residence time. After removing the residual biocide and filtering it in the filter chamber, the pure water can be discharged from the pure water discharge chamber by opening the tap.
• FIG. 3 is another embodiment of the water purification device according to the present invention. All the
• submerged tube height means the length of the tube that is immersed in the water of the water purification chamber i.e. the distance between the highest level of water in the water purification chamber and the lowest point of the pressure transmitting tube.
• LI and L2 means two different sides of the rectangle and the square. Table 1, below depicts the effect of tube geometry and submersed tube height on biocide dosing.
• the contact time is the time taken for the water containing the biocide dispensed from the biocide dispensing box before passing through the filter which is referred to as the contact time.
• This contact time will be the duration when the biocide will be acting on the microbes in the input water.
• Table 2 summarizes the contact time with and without the residence time chamber.

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