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US 12,735,332 B1Granted
Distillation using mechanical advantage and a single fluid
OwnerArthur Francisco Hurtadoinventor
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Abstract
An energy-saving method and system for distilling, desalinating or purifying water relating to a method of increasing the amount of heat recycled back into the system. The system involves powering a compressor and using a series of expanders and inducing a mechanical advantage, wherein the expanders displace a greater volume of gas than does the compressor. The energy derived from each expander cumulatively powers the compressor. The compressor draws vapor from seawater contained in an evaporator and compresses it into a condenser.
Claims16
A distillation system comprising:
- a first evaporator containing in a first portion a first liquid having a first temperature which is at the first liquid's boiling point;
- a first conduit in which a first vapor of the first liquid received from the first evaporator is compressed by a compressor, thus causing the first vapor in the first conduit to have a temperature, higher than the first temperature;
- a first expander configured to drive the compressor to compress the first vapor from the first evaporator into the first conduit, and,
- the first conduit having thermal conductive properties
- wherein the first conduit containing a first fluid comprised of at least one member of the group consisting of the first vapor and a condensate of the first vapor passes through a second evaporator, at least a portion of the first vapor within the first conduit condenses into the condensate of the first vapor,
- and, wherein the first expander driven by a second vapor of the first fluid expands the second vapor contained by the second evaporator into a first condenser,
- the first liquid contained in the second evaporator having a third temperature which is at the liquid's boiling point of the first liquid contained in the second evaporator but is lower than the second temperature, such that the boiling of the first liquid contained in the second evaporator occurs, generating the second vapor, when the first conduit is passed from the first evaporator and through the second evaporator;
- wherein the third temperature is greater than a fourth temperature of the second vapor in the first condenser,
- further comprising a second conduit, having thermal-conductive properties, transporting the first liquid, having a fifth temperature lower than the fourth temperature, to the first evaporator after passing through the first condenser and absorbing therein heat from the second vapor having the fourth temperature, and causing a condensate of the second vapor into a second liquid.
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