Atmospheric water generator

Inactive Publication Date: 2012-03-29
SEOANE DIEGO CASTANON
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Generally, natural freshwater resources are scarce or limited in many areas of the world, including areas such as, for example, deserts and arid lands, due to low precipitation and high salinity of surface and underground water.
Shortage in supply of potable water and fresh water is increasing at a vast rate, as deserts expand and overtake fertile land, and as many of the natural ground water resources are being depleted.
Furthermore, shifts in patterns of the global climate over time have resulted in a drop in the rate of rainfall in many areas.
For example, hunger and starvation is spreading in areas such as, for example, Africa, because of shortage of fresh water to raise domestic animals and crops for food.
Sparse population and scattered population pockets in many areas make the application of water desalination and other water treatment technologies uneconomical due to the low demand and the high cost of water distribution from a central system over a wide stretch of land.
For example, such methods of supplying potable water may be inaccessible to remote and / or impoverished areas of the world due to lack of natural resources, wealth, infrastructure and technical expertise.
Alternatively, transportation of loads of fresh water is costly and exposes water to contamination en route and during handling and storage.
For example, remote areas of the world may lack the necessary transportation infrastructure to allow transportation of potable water to these remote areas.

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[0056]In the drawings wherein similar characters of reference denote corresponding parts in each view, atmospheric water generator 10 includes an evaporator unit 12 cooperating with refrigeration components 14 mounted adjacently within rigid chassis 16 and housed within cowlings 18.

[0057]One aspect of the present invention is the synergy and increased efficiency gained by the use of only a single set of fans 20 which function both as cooling fans for the refrigeration cycle and also to draw moisture laden air in in-flow direction A through a parallel, spaced-apart array of roll-bond evaporators 22. A single roll-bond evaporator is shown in FIG. 2a showing the arrangement in one preferred embodiment of liquid coolant conduits 22a. Conduits 22a may thus in one embodiment be arranged so as to extend vertically along substantially the entire height dimension of the roll-bond evaporator 20. In one embodiment, not intending to limiting, as illustrated by the downward arrows in FIG. 2a, th...

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Abstract

An atmospheric water generator includes a refrigeration system. The evaporators may be roll-bond evaporators. Fans cooperate with a radiator and the evaporators to induce an in-flow stream of air from ambient air into and through, firstly, the condenser, and secondly, the radiator. The in-flow stream of air is cooled by the evaporator as the in-flow stream passes through the evaporator. The cooled stream of air then passes through a heated dissipating section of the radiator. The airways between the evaporators in the array are sufficiently long so that the streams of air become turbulently mixed. The evaporators may be planar. Opposed facing surfaces of adjacent evaporators may include turbulent flow trippers to change laminar flow in the airways to turbulent flow. The turbulent flow trippers may include protrusions formed on the opposed facing surfaces or metallic mesh interleaved in the airways between the evaporators.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]This invention relates to the field of atmospheric water generators, and in particular to a water generator system employing a synergistic relationship between the radiator and condenser in the refrigeration thereof wherein cooling of parallel roll-bond evaporator plates increases the efficiency of the radiator, reducing power consumption while the roll-bond evaporator plates increase water recovery from airflow from a single set of fans stationed to sequentially urge the airflow through the gaps between the roll-bond evaporator plates and through the heat radiating core of the radiator.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]Generally, natural freshwater resources are scarce or limited in many areas of the world, including areas such as, for example, deserts and arid lands, due to low precipitation and high salinity of surface and underground water. Shortage in supply of potable water and fresh water is increasing at a vast rate, as deserts expand and overtake ...

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IPC IPC(8): F25D21/14
CPCB01D5/0006B01D5/0015F25B39/024E03B3/28B01D53/265Y02A20/00
InventorSEOANE, DIEGO CASTANON
OwnerSEOANE DIEGO CASTANON