MUMBAI, India, June 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517050794 A) filed by Xylem Water Solutions U.S.A. Inc., Wisconsin, U.S.A., on May 27, for 'backwash orifice arrangement.'

Inventor(s) include Liu, Wenjun; and Akyon, Benay.

The application for the patent was published on June 13, under issue no. 24/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A solid-liquid separation system includes: a rotating filter configured to separate a solid-liquid containing stream into a filtrate component and a solids component, where the rotating filter has a rotation point around which the rotating filter rotates; and a plurality of backwash orifices including a first backwash orifice arranged to emit backwash water at a first region of the filter and a second backwash orifice arranged to emit the backwash water at a second region of the filter different from the first region, where the first region is closer to the rotation point than the second region, where the second backwash orifice emits the backwash water at the second region and the first backwash orifice emits the backwash water at the first region such that the second region experiences a higher flow rate than the first region."

The patent application was internationally filed on Nov. 14, 2023, under International application No.PCT/US2023/079620.

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