Mobile water treatment device
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing solutions for providing hot water, treating water, and cleaning pipes and surfaces are limited in scalability and efficiency, particularly in mobile applications like aircraft drinking water networks, where they struggle to handle large volumes effectively while maintaining compactness and minimizing weight and volume constraints.
Innovation Solution
A mobile device with an internal frame accommodating a recovery tank and a hot water production sub-assembly featuring multiple condensing boilers and gas supply modules, where gas bottles store gas in both liquid and gaseous states, eliminating the need for additional equipment like carburetors and optimizing space and weight by using the bottle's upper volume as an evaporation chamber, and incorporating a chassis for efficient positioning and fluid collection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If the capacity of the device is increased to process large volumes of water, then the productivity is improved, but the device complexity and volume increase
Solution Approach 1:
The device is divided into multiple independent functional sub-assemblies (hot water production, water treatment, pipe cleaning, surface cleaning) that can operate independently or simultaneously. Each sub-assembly is a self-contained module with its own specific function, allowing the overall device to handle large volumes through parallel operation without proportionally increasing complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile device integrates multiple water-related services into a single platform that can provide hot water supply, water treatment, pipe cleaning, and surface cleaning functions. This multi-functional approach allows the device to process large volumes of water through different operations simultaneously while maintaining a unified chassis and support structure.
2Ease of operation
If the device is made mobile with compact dimensions, then the ease of operation is improved, but the volume for accommodating functional elements is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The gas tanks are designed with nested structures where liquid gas is stored in the lower portion and gaseous gas occupies the upper portion of the same tank volume. The chassis itself serves as the structural framework that accommodates all functional sub-assemblies, creating a nested arrangement where components are integrated into the available space without requiring additional external volume.
Solution Approach 2:
The gas tanks utilize vertical positioning to separate liquid and gaseous phases, with the liquid portion at the bottom and gaseous portion at the top. This vertical dimensionality allows efficient use of tank volume without requiring additional horizontal space, maintaining compactness while accommodating both phases of the propellant.
3Reliability
If additional equipment like carburetors and vaporizers is added to improve gas supply functionality, then the reliability is improved, but the weight and volume increase
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts and eliminates the carburetor and vaporizer components from the gas supply system. Instead of adding equipment to improve gas supply functionality, the design uses the gas tank's upper volume as the evaporation chamber, allowing direct phase change from liquid to gaseous state without intermediate devices. This reduces weight while maintaining reliable gas supply through the natural evaporation process.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The mobile device efficiently supplies hot water and treats surfaces by multiplying the capacity of existing systems, reducing weight and volume, and enabling simultaneous operation of multiple services, such as hot water production, water treatment, and pipe cleaning, while maintaining compactness and autonomy in gas and electricity supply.
Implementation Method 1
storing in their internal volume the gas in the liquid state in the lower part and in the gaseous state in the upper part
Implementation Method 2
The upper volume of the bottle serves as an evaporation chamber
Implementation Method 3
hot water production subassembly with at least one condensing boiler
Implementation Method 4
condensing boiler associated with at least one gas supply module
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AI summary
The invention relates to a device (D) for services related to the supply of hot water, to the treatment of water, to the cleaning of any fixed or mobile surfaces such as pipes for supplying drinking water or a liquid food product, characterized in that said device is mobile, comprises an inner frame (120) receiving in the lower part a collection tank (100) of the possible fluids and a sub-assembly for producing hot water with at least one condensing boiler associated with at least one gas supply module (330a) formed by a plurality of gas cylinders (331a, 332a) of the carburization type, wherein, in their internal volume, the gas in the liquid state is stored at the bottom and the gas in the gaseous state is stored at the top, wherein said gas cylinders are arranged substantially horizontally in the inner frame and with the opening facing upwards so that the end of the gas passage pipe opens onto a larger elongated gas part.