APPARATUS FOR FLUID TREATMENT

摘要

The present invention relates to an apparatus suitable for use in the irradiation of a fluid having an UV absorbance not greater than 0.06cm<-1> at an UV radiation wavelength of 254nm. The apparatus comprises a multiplicity of flow tubes 6 for conducting said fluid therethrough, a multiplicity of UV radiation source tubes (4), and a tube support structure formed and arranged so that said UV tubes and flow tubes extend substantially parallel to each other in a close-packed multicellular matrix array (1) made up of equilateral triangular cell units (14) having UV source tubes at their vertices and flow tubes midway between said vertices. The invention also provides a method of water treatment using an apparatus of the invention.