Claims
- 1. A water treatment apparatus comprising:a mixing bath having an open portion where carbonic acid gas intermixed with water to be treated in the mixing bath and dissolved oxygen excluded from said water to be treated are discharged; a water storage tank separate from the mixing bath and exhausted through the mixing bath, and in which treated water from the mixing bath is stored; and an upper portion of the water storage tank configured at least partially to store said treated water.
- 2. A water treatment apparatus of claim 1, wherein the mixing bath has upper and lower open portions such that the dissolved oxygen excluded from the water to be treated is discharged from the upper open portion and the carbonic acid gas-intermixed with the water to be treated is supplied to the water storage tank from the lower open portion.
- 3. A water treatment apparatus of claim 1, wherein the mixing bath includes a porous filter through which the carbonic acid gas is supplied to the water to be treated.
- 4. A water treatment apparatus of claim 1, wherein the mixing bath is configured to produce said treated water satisfying the following relations:3.5 ≦pH≦6.5 DO≦0.5 pH2−6.5 pH+22, where DO represents a dissolved oxygen amount in ppm.
Priority Claims (1)
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Parent Case Info
This application is a Division of application Ser. No. 09/314,117, filed May 19, 1999, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,471,783.
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