US Patent Issued to ChartWater on Aug. 4 for "System and method for removal of volatile hydrocarbons from a water stream" (Georgia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,219, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to ChartWater LLC (Duluth, Ga.).

"System and method for removal of volatile hydrocarbons from a water stream" was invented by Gregory C. Gilles (Suwanee, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for separating a volatile hydrocarbon from a water stream includes a lead mixer-injector device that receives an untreated water stream including a volatile hydrocarbon, injects compressed air into the untreated water stream and mixes the injected air with the untreated water stream to form a first injected fluid stream. A shear mixing device receives the first injected fluid stream from the mixer-injecto...