Pressurizable Container Moveable Section Hydrogen Retention
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing containers for hydrogen-rich water struggle to maintain high dissolved hydrogen concentrations over time due to gas escape through headspace, leading to ineffective therapeutic delivery.
Innovation Solution
Design of pressurizable containers with moveable sections that reduce accessible volume, allowing gases like hydrogen to become supersaturated within the liquid, using mechanisms such as one-way valves and resilient connections to maintain pressure and prevent gas escape.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If commercial equipment is used to saturate water with H2 gas, then hydrogen concentration can reach maximum dissolution, but the container cannot have any headspace and H2 quickly falls to 1 ppm or lower
Solution Approach 1:
The container incorporates a moveable section that can dynamically adjust the internal volume, allowing the system to transition between states with and without headspace. This dynamic adjustment enables the container to maintain high hydrogen concentrations by eliminating headspace when needed while still allowing for practical filling and dispensing operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention changes the physical parameter of container volume by introducing a moveable section that can alter the internal accessible volume. This parameter change allows the container to adapt its volume to minimize headspace and prevent hydrogen escape, thereby maintaining high dissolution concentrations over extended periods.
2Ease of operation
If a container has headspace to allow for liquid expansion and gas evolution, then ease of operation is improved, but hydrogen gas escapes from the liquid
Solution Approach 1:
The moveable section provides dynamic volume adjustment capability, allowing the container to accommodate liquid expansion and gas evolution during filling and operation while maintaining minimal headspace during storage and transport. This dynamic adaptation resolves the contradiction between operational flexibility and hydrogen retention.
Solution Approach 2:
The container is segmented into fixed and moveable sections, allowing independent optimization of each portion. The fixed section provides structural integrity and sealing, while the moveable section adjusts volume to eliminate headspace, thereby preventing hydrogen escape while maintaining ease of operation.
3Quantity of substance
If the moveable section is translated to reduce accessible volume, then hydrogen supersaturation is achieved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The moveable section is designed to be translated by the user or system itself without requiring complex external actuation mechanisms. This self-service approach achieves hydrogen supersaturation through simple volume reduction while minimizing added device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The moveable section may be translated using pneumatic or hydraulic principles, such as pressure differential from gas evolution or liquid level changes, rather than complex mechanical actuators. This approach achieves volume reduction and hydrogen supersaturation with minimal additional complexity.
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 solution enables higher and more sustained hydrogen concentrations, enhancing therapeutic efficacy and safety by minimizing microbial growth and maintaining gas levels during use and transport.
Implementation Method 1
containers for pressuring a liquid, e.g., by reducing headspace above the liquid or reducing accessible volume within a container
Implementation Method 2
allowing gases such as H2 to become supersaturated within an aqueous liquid
Implementation Method 3
inserting into the hollow chamber an aqueous liquid and a gas-evolving composition, wherein gas evolves from the gas-evolving composition
Implementation Method 4
forcing evolved gas back into the aqueous liquid. The forcing may include reducing the headspace above the aqueous liquid in the hollow chamber by translating the moveable section
Data Source
AI summary
The invention provides containers for pressuring an aqueous liquid with a gas to increase the concentration of the gas in the aqueous liquid. The container employs one or more moveable sections to reduce the accessible volume of the container, e.g., allowing gases such as H2 to become supersaturated within an aqueous liquid.