MICROBIAL RESISTANT WATER PURIFICATION AND COLLECTION SYSTEM.

摘要

A MICROBIAL RESISTANT WATER PURIFICATION AND COLLECTION SYSTEM (10) GENERALLY COMPRISES A REVERSE OSMOSIS FILTER ASSEMBLY (19) HAVING A FILTER INLET (14) IN SELECTIVE FLUID COMMUNICATION WITH A SYSTEM INLET (11) AND A FILTER OUTLET (24) IN FLUID COMMUNICATIONS WITH A WATER STORAGE CONTAINER (12). THE FILTER INLET (14) IS SEPARATED FROM THE FILTER OUTLET (24) BY A FILTER MEMBRANE (21). AT LEAST A PORTION OF THE STORAGE CONTAINER (12) IS LOCATED AT AN ELEVATION ABOVE THE FILTER MEMBRANE (21) SUCH THAT FILLING OF THE STORAGE CONTAINER CREATES A HEAD PRESSURE IN THE STORAGE CONTAINER RELATIVE TO THE FILTER MEMBRENE. A SHUT-OFF VALVE (27) IS INTERPOSED THE SISTEM INLET (11) AND THE FILTER INLET (14) TO BLOCK FLUID COMMUNICATION FROM THE SYSTEM INLET TO THE FILTER INLET UPON REACHING A MINIMUM HEAD PRESSURE IN THE STOREGE CONTAINER (12) RELATIVE TO THE FILTER MEMBRANE (21). (FIG. 1)