Radial Hydraulic Injection Core for Seawater Desalination

Solution Overview

Problem

Existing seawater desalination systems face high energy consumption, expensive equipment, and environmental impact, with reverse osmosis membranes being sensitive to contaminants that require costly pretreatment to maintain performance.

Innovation Solution

A radial hydraulic injection core system that evaporates seawater with minimal energy input, using a mechanical setup with Pelton turbines, gearboxes, and Halbach matrices to generate thermal or electrical energy while desalinating, incorporating a system of crankshafts, gearboxes, and radial injectors to efficiently manage seawater evaporation and energy production.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If reverse osmosis membranes are used for seawater desalination, then desalination efficiency is improved, but energy consumption increases and membrane sensitivity to contaminants requires costly pretreatment

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedesalination efficiencyVSAvoidenergy consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs evaporation phase transition to desalinate seawater. By heating seawater in evaporators, water vapor is generated and condensed in condensers to produce fresh water, eliminating the need for energy-intensive reverse osmosis membranes and associated pretreatment processes

Inventive Principle:

Principle #36Phase transitions

Solution Approach 2:

The invention replaces the mechanical reverse osmosis membrane system with a thermal evaporation-condensation system. This substitution eliminates membrane sensitivity issues and reduces energy consumption by using phase change mechanisms instead of high-pressure filtration

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Productivity

If reverse osmosis membranes are used for seawater desalination, then desalination efficiency is improved, but equipment cost increases due to sensitive membranes requiring pretreatment

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedesalination efficiencyVSAvoidequipment cost

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs evaporation phase transition to desalinate seawater. By heating seawater in evaporators, water vapor is generated and condensed in condensers to produce fresh water, eliminating the need for energy-intensive reverse osmosis membranes and associated pretreatment processes

Inventive Principle:

Principle #36Phase transitions

Solution Approach 2:

The invention replaces the mechanical reverse osmosis membrane system with a thermal evaporation-condensation system. This substitution eliminates membrane sensitivity issues and reduces energy consumption by using phase change mechanisms instead of high-pressure filtration

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Productivity

If conventional desalination systems are used, then seawater can be desalinated, but environmental impact increases due to high energy consumption and marine ecosystem disruption

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedesalination capabilityVSAvoidenvironmental impact

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs evaporation phase transition to desalinate seawater. By heating seawater in evaporators, water vapor is generated and condensed in condensers to produce fresh water, eliminating the need for energy-intensive reverse osmosis membranes and associated pretreatment processes

Inventive Principle:

Principle #36Phase transitions

Solution Approach 2:

The invention replaces the mechanical reverse osmosis membrane system with a thermal evaporation-condensation system. This substitution eliminates membrane sensitivity issues and reduces energy consumption by using phase change mechanisms instead of high-pressure filtration

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

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 system achieves seawater desalination with reduced energy consumption and minimal environmental impact, effectively generating thermal or electrical energy while producing clean water and table salt, with the ability to operate in various industrial and residential applications.

Implementation Method 1

a hydraulic radial injection core system, for the evaporation of water so as to desalinate seawater

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectEvaporation: Evaporation

Implementation Method 2

mechanical setup with Pelton turbines, gearboxes, and Halbach matrices to generate thermal or electrical energy

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectHydraulic turbine energy conversion: Water Turbine

Implementation Method 3

Halbach matrices to generate thermal or electrical energy while desalinating

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectElectromagnetic induction heating: Electromagnetic Induction

Data Source

PatentUS20250099869A1Arrangement for the production of table salt, electricity generation and seawater heating

Publication Date: 2025.03.27 TORDECILLA SUAREZ JOSE MIGUEL

AI summary

An arrangement which is composed of two systems, a mechanical system and an evaporation system, powered only by an electric motor, connected together by means of a cardan shaft system to a crankshaft, The crankshaft then moves a system of levers which by means of a gearbox gives speed to a system of pistons and radial cylinders of the mechanical system, which drive a Pelton turbine, which is driven by means of the mechanical system through the rings or cores S1, S2, S3 . . . connected to a rotation shaft to produce a rotating shaft. connected to a rotating shaft to produce the evaporation of seawater and desalination, a system which through different arrangements allows to generate heat energy, to heat the water and additionally to generate electrical energy.