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US 2022/0089461 A1Published application
Desalination system
AssigneesResearch Foundation of the City University of New York, Sun Fresh Water, LLC
InventorsAli M. Sadegh, Jorge E. Gonzalez-Cruz, Joseph James D'Alba, George Victor St. Pierre, George Farinick
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Abstract
A heating system for use in the solar powered heating of water. In one embodiment, the heating system is used in conjunction with a solar water farm to desalinate water. The water farm can be utilized on a variety of scales and can be applied to agricultural farms for large scale reclamation of deserts.
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A method for heating water, the method comprising:
- introducing water into an outer box of a heating system, the heating system comprising:
- the outer box with an optically transparent cover;
- an inner box disposed within the outer box, the inner box comprising
- a plurality of flow tubes that extend through two walls of the inner box, each flow tube having an internal volume that is in fluid communication with the outer box;
- a thermal packing material disposed in spaces between each flow tube;
- circulating water from the outer box, through the flow tubes;
- heating the inner box by permitting sunlight to pass through the optically transparent cover of the outer box such that the inner box, including the thermal packing material and the plurality of flow tubes, is heated;
- removing heated water from the outer box through an outlet port.
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A heating system comprising:
- an outer box with an optically transparent cover;
- an inner box disposed within the outer box, the inner box comprising
- a plurality of flow tubes that extend through two walls of the inner box, each flow tube having an internal volume that is in fluid communication with the outer box;
- a thermal packing material disposed in spaces between each flow tube.
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A water farm comprising:
- a water in-take system that removes saltwater from a body of water;
- a saltwater storage tower;
- at least one pump, powered by a green power source, that pumps the saltwater from the body of water to the saltwater storage tower;
- a plurality of vertically stacked pipes for releasing water from the saltwater storage tower and conveying the saltwater to a day tank;
- a plurality of desalination units fluidly connected to the day tank, the plurality of desalination units providing desalinated water to a common output pipe;
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- a potable water storage tank fluidly connected to the common output pipe for receiving the desalinated water therefrom.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.