Quad generation of electricity, heat, chill, and clean water
AssigneeMonarch Power Corp
InventorJoseph Y. Hui
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Abstract
An apparatus focuses solar power to provide clean energy, water, heat, and chill. Using ammonium carbonate salt for four purposes: first generating electricity using carbon dioxide as working fluid for a heat engine; second generating hot water from heat exchanges; third generating chill by evaporation of liquefied ammonia; and fourth generating purified water by forward osmosis with ammonium carbonate salt as draw solution.
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A method for generating electricity and cooling comprising the steps of:
- a. leveraging a power source to heat carbon dioxide;
- b. converting heat energy from the carbon dioxide to drive a heat engine and generate electricity;
- c. providing a solution to absorb ammonia;
- d. providing a solution to absorb carbon dioxide;
- e. evaporating ammonia from the solution to produce an ammonia gas;
- f. evaporating carbon dioxide from the solution to produce a carbon dioxide gas;
- g. separating the carbon dioxide gas to be re-heated in said step of leveraging;
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- h. liquefying the ammonia gas to provide a liquid ammonia;
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- i. expanding of the liquid ammonia to provide cooling.
A method of generating electricity, cooling, and potable water comprising the steps of:
- a. leveraging a power source to heat carbon dioxide;
- b. converting heat energy from the carbon dioxide to drive a heat engine and generate electricity;
- c. providing a solution to absorb ammonia
- d. providing a solution to absorb carbon dioxide;
- e. allowing water from a saltwater solution to pass through a membrane into a draw solution of ammonia to provide a diluted ammonia-fortified water solution;
- f. extracting ammonia from the ammonia-fortified water solution to produce potable water;
- g. evaporating carbon dioxide from the solution to produce a carbon dioxide gas;
- h. separating the evaporated carbon dioxide and re-routing the carbon dioxide gas to be re-heated in said step of leveraging;
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- i. liquefying ammonia gas to provide a liquid ammonia;
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- j. expanding of the liquid ammonia to provide cooling and ammonia gas.
An apparatus for the generation of electricity and cooling, said apparatus comprising:
- a. an absorption chamber adapted to provide combination of a refrigerant gas with a heat engine gas into an aqueous solution;
- b. a generator for generating electricity through a heat engine with said heat engine gas;
- c. a generation chamber adapted to separate said refrigerant gas and said heat engine gas from said aqueous solution;
- d. a hot water chamber adapted to allow transfer of heat from said refrigerant gas to a liquid and further adapted to condense said refrigerant gas into a refrigerant liquid;
- e. an evaporator chamber adapted to evaporate said refrigerant liquid into said refrigerant gas to provide cooling;
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- f. piping adapted to allow said heat engine gas and said refrigerant gas to return to said absorption chamber.
An apparatus for the generation of electricity, cooling, and potable water, said apparatus comprising:
- a. an absorption chamber adapted to provide combination of a refrigerant gas with a heat engine gas into an aqueous solution;
- b. a water purification chamber adapted to draw potable water from a salt water solution through a membrane to an aqueous salt solution comprising of refrigerant gas and heat engine gas;
- c. a generator for generating electricity through a heat engine with said heat engine gas;
- d. a hot water chamber adapted to allow transfer of heat from said refrigerant gas to a liquid and further adapted to condense said refrigerant gas into a refrigerant liquid;
- e. an evaporation chamber adapted to evaporate said refrigerant liquid into said refrigerant gas to provide cooling;
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- f. piping said heat engine gas and said refrigerant gas to return to said absorption chamber for condensation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.