Water Purification Circuit With Adjustable Minerality Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing water treatment systems fail to achieve a balance between sufficient purification and controlled minerality, often resulting in water that is not pure enough when a desired level of minerality is reached.
Innovation Solution
A system comprising a series of purifiers and minerality modifying devices, including activated carbon, ion exchange resin, microfilters, UV light, demineralizers, and mineralizers, with a control circuit to manage the flow through these components, ensuring the water remains pure while allowing for adjustable minerality adjustments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If water is purified through multiple stages, then purity increases, but minerality control becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the water treatment process into separate functional modules: purification means (reverse osmosis, ultrafiltration) and minerality modification means (mineralization cartridge). This segmentation allows each module to perform its specific function independently, enabling high purity through purification while maintaining adaptability for minerality control through the separate mineralization stage.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs purification first to remove contaminants and achieve high purity, then subsequently adds minerals in a controlled manner. This preliminary purification action creates a clean base that allows precise minerality control in the second stage without interference from contaminants.
2Adaptability or versatility
If minerality is increased to desired levels, then taste is improved, but purity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts the minerality function from the purification process by using a separate mineralization cartridge. This allows minerals to be added after purification is complete, ensuring that purity is not compromised by mineral addition, while still achieving desired minerality levels for taste enhancement.
Solution Approach 2:
The mineralization cartridge acts as an intermediary component between the purification system and the final water output. It provides controlled mineral addition without affecting the purification process, maintaining both purity and adaptability for minerality adjustment.
3Manufacturing precision
If multiple treatment means are arranged in series, then water quality is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges multiple purification technologies (reverse osmosis and ultrafiltration) into a single integrated purification means, and combines mineralization and carbonation functions in one cartridge. This merging reduces system complexity while maintaining high water quality through the combined effects of multiple treatment approaches.
Solution Approach 2:
The mineralization cartridge serves multiple functions: it adds minerals for taste enhancement and provides carbonation. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate components, simplifying the overall system while improving water quality through combined mineralization and carbonation processes.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The system effectively purifies water while maintaining controlled taste and minerality, ensuring the conductivity of the treated water changes by no more than 10%, using a combination of purifiers and minerality modifiers with a control circuit to manage the flow and adjust minerality as needed.
Implementation Method 1
The first purifier is an activated carbon purifier
Implementation Method 2
The second purifier is an ion exchange resin purifier
Implementation Method 3
The third purifier is a microfilters purifier
Implementation Method 4
The fourth purifier is a UV light purifier
Implementation Method 5
The second purifier is an ion exchange resin purifier
Implementation Method 6
the more the water is purified, the more the amount of minerals in the water changes
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AI summary
A system (1, 100, 200, 300, 400) comprising: a tank (2, 102, 202, 302, 402) for storing an aqueous liquid having an amount of minerals; a purifier (3, 103, 203, 303, 403) configured to purify the aqueous liquid without substantially modifying the amount of minerals; a minerality modifying device (12, 112, 212, 312, 412) configured to substantially modify the amount of minerals in the aqueous liquid; an outlet (16, 116, 216, 316, 416) for dispensing the aqueous liquid to a user; a circuit (18, 118, 218, 318, 418) configurable into: i) a purification mode; ii) a minerality modifying mode; and iii) a dispensing mode.