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US 2015/0144478 A1Published application
Desalination and/or Gas Production System and Method
AssigneeQwtip LLC
InventorWhitaker Ben Irvin, SR.
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Abstract
A system and method are provided in at least one embodiment to process water to produce gas that can be separated into at least two gas flows using a water treatment system having a disk-pack rotating in it to cause out gassing from the water. In a further embodiment, the method and system use the gas released from the water to produce substantially fresh water from the processed salt water.
Claims20
A system for producing and collecting gas comprising:
- a water tank;
- a hood engaging said water tank, said hood including at least one port;
- at least one water dissociation system in said water tank, said water dissociation system including
- a motor;
- a driveshaft engaging said motor;
- a vortex module having
- a housing,
- a plurality of inlets spaced around the periphery of the housing near a top of said housing, and
- a vortex chamber formed in said housing and in fluid communication with said plurality of inlets;
- and
- a disk-pack module having
- a housing having a turbine chamber,
- a plurality of discharge outlets providing a fluid pathway from said turbine chamber to outside of said disk-pack housing, and
- a disk-pack having an expansion chamber formed in an axial center and in fluid communication with said vortex chamber, said disk-pack having a plurality of spaced apart disks providing passageways between said expansion chamber and said discharge chamber, said disk-pack engaging said driveshaft.
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A method for production of substantially fresh water from salt water comprising:
- placing water into a processing tank such that the water level is sufficient to cover any inlet and any discharge of any water dissociation system present in the processing tank;
- operating each of the water dissociation systems in the processing tank by
- rotating a disk-pack turbine in a disk-pack module of each of the water treatment systems;
- spinning a water to create a vortex where the water that enters the vortex is located inside the processing tank;
- discharging the water from the vortex module into an expansion chamber formed in the disk-pack turbine of the disk-pack module;
- channeling the water between spaces that exist between disks of the disk-pack turbine to travel from the expansion chamber to at least one discharge channel surrounding the disk-pack turbine;
- discharging the water through at least one discharge outlet;
- and
- collecting gas through a port proximate a top of the processing tank;
- routing the collected gas into a chiller/condenser unit to produce substantially fresh water.
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A disk-pack turbine comprising:
- a first disk having an axially centered opening passing therethrough, and
- a second disk;
- and
- wherein each of said first disk and said second disk includes a set of waveforms and a plurality of vanes having channels and ridges where the set of waveforms and said plurality of vanes are centered about the opening of said first disk.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.