Water purifying system and backwash module control method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10322361-B2
Application number	US-201615298835-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 20, 2016
Priority date	Oct 21, 2015
Publication date	Jun 18, 2019
Grant date	Jun 18, 2019

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a water purifying system, including: a raw water tank configured to store raw water; a filter unit configured to include a plurality of filtration modules for purifying the raw water and a plurality of valves for feeding or cutting off the raw water; a raw water pump configured to feed the raw water from the raw water tank to the filter unit; and a backwash module configured to feed backwash water to the filter unit, in which some of permeate water permeated by the filter unit is fed to the backwash module to be used as the backwash water and a feed pressure of the backwash water is fed by the raw water pump.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A water purifying system, comprising:
a raw water tank configured to store raw water;
a filter unit configured to include a plurality of filtration modules for purifying the raw water and a plurality of valves configured to feed or cut off the raw water;
a raw water pump configured to feed the raw water from the raw water tank to the filter unit; and
a backwash module configured to feed backwash water to the filter unit,
wherein the raw water pump is configured to feed the raw water to the backwash module,
the backwash module is configured to receive a portion of permeate water permeated by the filter unit, and to apply pressure to the portion of permeate water with the raw water that is fed to the backwash module such that the backwash module feeds the portion of permeate water to the filter unit as the backwash water, and
the backwash module is configured to apply pressure to the raw water, that is fed thereto, with the portion of the permeate water, that is fed thereto, such that the backwash module feeds the raw water back to the raw water tank.

2. The water purifying system of claim 1 , wherein the backwash module is provided with a first inlet, a second inlet, a first outlet, and a second outlet.

3. The water purifying system of claim 2 , wherein the first inlet is provided with a first valve configured to control a flux of the raw water, the second inlet is provided with a fourth valve configured to feed the permeate water, the first outlet is provided with a second valve configured to discharge the raw water to the raw water tank, and the second outlet is provided with a third valve configured to discharge the backwash water.

4. The water purifying system of claim 3 , wherein the backwash module is a pressure vessel or a pressure tank.

5. The water purifying system of claim 4 , wherein an inside of the pressure vessel is provided with a piston moving along a length direction, the piston moves to the first valve when the permeate water is fed to discharge the raw water to an outside of the pressure vessel and moves to the third valve when the raw water is fed to discharge the backwash water to the outside of the pressure vessel.

6. The water purifying system of claim 4 , wherein an inside of the pressure tank is provided with a diaphragm, the diaphragm moves to the first valve when the permeate water is fed to discharge the raw water to the outside of the pressure vessel and moves to the third valve when the raw water is fed to discharge the backwash water to the outside of the pressure vessel.

7. The water purifying system of claim 6 , wherein the pressure tank further includes a pair of plates provided with a plurality of through holes, and each plate of the pair of plates is installed at a respective position of the pressure tank such that movement of the diaphragm is limited by the pair of plates.

8. The water purifying system of claim 4 , wherein the inside of the pressure tank includes a balloon-like diaphragm, the diaphragm is pressurized when the raw water is fed to discharge the backwash water therein to the outside of the pressure tank and inflated when the permeate water is fed to discharge the raw water at the outside thereof to the outside of the pressure tank.

9. The water purifying system of claim 3 , further comprising:
a dirty water tank configured to discharge the backwash water after the backwash of the filtration module.

10. The water purifying system of claim 9 , wherein the fourth valve is configured to increase an amount of permeate water supplied to the filtration module as a required amount of the backwash water increases.

11. The water purifying system of claim 9 , wherein the raw water pump is configured to, when the permeate water permeated by the filtration module is fed to a reverse osmosis system, increase the flux of the raw water as the required amount of the backwash water increases.

12. The water purifying system of claim 3 , further comprising:
a flow meter configured to be installed at a front end of the first valve to detect the flux of the raw water.

13. The water purifying system of claim 12 , wherein the first valve is a flow control valve and the second to fourth valves are an on/off valve.

14. The water purifying system of claim 13 , wherein when the backwash module is fed with the permeate water, the first and third valves are closed and the second and fourth valves are open, when the backwash is performed, the first and third valves are open and the second and fourth valves are closed.

15. The water purifying system of claim 14 , wherein the first valve is configured to control the flux of the raw water depending on a preset backwash flux.

16. A backwash module control method of the water purifying system having the configuration of claim 3 , wherein the first valve, the second valve, the third valve, and the fourth valve are differently controlled depending on when the permeate water is fed to the backwash module, when the backwash is performed, and when the permeate water is re-fed to the backwash module.

17. The backwash module control method of claim 16 , wherein when the permeate water is fed and re-fed to the backwash module, the first and third valves are closed and the second and fourth valves are open.

18. The backwash module control method of claim 16 , wherein when the backwash is performed, the first and third valves are open and the second and fourth valves are closed.

19. The backwash module control method of claim 17 , wherein the first valve controls the flux of the raw water depending on a detection result of a flow meter installed at a front end of the first valve to detect the flux of the raw water.

20. The backwash module control method of claim 19 , wherein the first valve controls the flux of the raw water depending on a preset backwash flux.

Assignees

• Doosan Heavy Ind & Construction Co Ltd
• Doosan Heavy Ind Constr Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Woo Nyoung
• Park Sung Won

Classifications

• B01D2317/04

  Elements in parallel · CPC title

• C02F1/441

  by reverse osmosis · CPC title

• C02F1/444

  by ultrafiltration or microfiltration · CPC title

• B01D61/145

  Ultrafiltration · CPC title

• B01D2313/48

  Mechanisms for switching between regular separation operations and washing · CPC title