Cold Distillation Process and Apparatus
OwnerWalter Scarboroughinventor
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Abstract
Apparatus and method for economically removing salts and heavy metals from water. The apparatus and method provide for flowing of the water across a transducer/resonator assembly which has enhanced resonation such that the water vaporizes and condenses without the salts or heavy metals. The water may then be used for drinking, irrigation, agricultural purposes, or injecting into subterranean formations related to mining or the recovery of hydrocarbons. The water may also be used to supplement or prepare water for reverse-osmosis desalination processes.
Claims25
A system for removing salts, hydrocarbons, metals and/or contaminants from water, comprising the combination of:
- a supply source into which said water is loaded in a liquid state;
- at least one sled integral with or associated with said supply source such that water in the supply source flows over the sled;
- a plurality of ultrasonic transducers within at least one said sled,
- wherein each ultrasonic transducer has associated therewith a surrogate transducer;
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- wherein each ultrasonic transducer resonates within a range that causes each said surrogate transducer to resonate within a range that causes at least some of the water to evaporate or vaporize;
- a condenser for the water vapor;
- a chamber for directing the water vapor from the supply source into the condenser, wherein the chamber is of sufficient length that only water vapor without a significant amount of salts, metals or contaminants for the intended use, reaches the condenser;
- means for flowing the water into the supply source and across the sled;
- a discharge receiver for receiving any unevaporated water remaining in the supply source after the water flows across the sled;
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- means for flowing any unevaporated water into the discharge receiver.
A method for removing salts, metals and/or contaminants from an aqueous fluid, the method comprising flowing the fluid across at least one ultrasonic transducer having associated therewith a surrogate transducer and the ultrasonic transducer resonating within a range that causes the surrogate transducer to resonate within a range that causes the water to evaporate or vaporize into a chamber that enables cloud formation and condensation of water, leaving behind any significant amount of the salts, metals and contaminants for the intended use of the water, wherein the ultrasonic transducer has a parabolic face or is associated with a transmitter having a parabolic face for enhancing the efficiency of the ultrasonic transducer so as to make the method economical.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.