Apparatus and method for producing and storing more ice over ocean
AssigneePukyong National University Industry-University Cooperation Foundation
InventorHi Ryong Byun
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for producing and storing ice on the sea using sub-zero cold air of the winter season, to achieve an earlier freezing period, and increasing the area and thickness of the ice layer, to suppress the melting of ice sheets and glaciers and suppress and overcome global warming as well as its side effects. The apparatus and method involve compressing cold air; injecting the compressed cold air into a storage tank; supercooling water using the injected cold air; forming an ice layer by misting the supercooled water into the sea; and increasing a thickness of the ice layer by additionally misting water onto the ice layer formed at water level.
Claims7
An apparatus for producing and storing ice in a sea, the apparatus comprising:
- a storage tank;
- a compressor configured to compress cold air and inject the cold air into the storage tank;
- a first pump configured to propel water supercooled by the cold air;
- a first nozzle configured to spray the supercooled water propelled by the first pump;
- and
- a screen prepared on an inside of the first nozzle, the screen configured to convert the supercooled water into a mist.
A method for producing and storing ice in a sea, the method comprising:
- compressing cold air;
- injecting the compressed cold air into a storage tank;
- supercooling water using the injected cold air;
- forming an ice layer by misting the supercooled water into the sea;
- and
- increasing a thickness of the ice layer by additionally misting water onto the ice layer formed at water level.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.