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US 2002/0162735 A1Published application
Reduced energy water distillation and power turbine process
OwnerGeorge H. Newmaninventor
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Abstract
The present invention reduces the energy required to distill fluids (water, light crude, etc.) and operate electric and/or power generate steam turbines through a process of encapsulating these systems in reduced atmospheric temperature environments. This invention includes both the innovative process of operating existing distillers and turbines in a vacuum, and introduces an energy free process for drawing the vacuum the systems operate in.
Claims5
A water distillation system comprising:
- a solar heated means for heating undistilled fluids to produce a fluid vapor during solar heating, said solar heated means being sealed after the end of effective sunlight to create a partial vacuum during cooling to be used to draw further undistilled fluids at a start of the next solar cycle;
- and a distillation chamber which collects and condenses the fluid vapor to produce distilled fluids.
A process for using solar heating for effective distillation, said process comprising the steps of:
- heating undistilled fluids in a chamber with one-way valves so that fluid vapor is exhausted to a distillation chamber during sunlight, but the chamber is cooled to create a partial vacuum to draw undistilled fluids in at the beginning of each successive solar cycle.
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