Gravitational vapour compressor device
AssigneeWga Water Global Access S.L.
InventorsJuan Eusebio NOMEN CALVET, Dan Alexandru HANGANU
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Abstract
A gravitational vapor compressor device includes at least one vertical compression chamber and a plurality of droplet spray generating nozzles are arranged at the top thereof, which nozzles form a flow of droplets in the water vapor flow along a height h1 of the vertical shell. The speed of the droplets from the droplet beams is adjusted along the height h1 to the terminal fall velocity in relation to a gas flow, the compression chamber has a height h2 from which droplets fall at the same or similar terminal velocity inside a water vapor flow, which compresses the water vapor. The gravitational vapor compressor device further comprises a secondary vapor outlet duct.
Claims11
A gravitational vapor compressor (GVC) device, wherein, the GVC device comprises:
- at least one vertical compression chamber,
- a plurality of nozzles arranged at an upper part of the at least one vertical compression chamber that are adapted to form at least one droplet beam or spray of liquid water,
- at least one inlet for primary water vapor to be compressed in the upper part of a vertical compression chamber,
- a secondary water vapor outlet duct located at a lower part of the vertical compression chamber,
- wherein the vertical compression chamber comprises a portion of a height h1 located in the upper part of the vertical compression chamber and that is configured so that the droplets of at least one droplet beam reach the terminal velocity of free fall relative to the water vapor flow, and wherein the vertical compression chamber comprises a portion of a height h2 configured so that the droplets fall through the this lower part of the vertical compression chamber in an ordered flow with a fall velocity relative to the vapor flow equal to or close to the terminal velocity of the droplets in the water vapor flow, which is evacuated through the secondary vapor outlet duct.
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