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US 4,355,683 AGranted
System of moisture and temperature conditioning air using a solar pond
AssigneeMidland-Ross Corporation
InventorWilliam C. Griffiths
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Abstract
An air conditioning system and/or a heating system is described in combination with a solar pond, especially a pond which is of the gradient type, wherein it is important to maintain a concentration of salt which increases with the depth of the pond. The pond is regenerated, that is, the salt concentration gradient is maintained, by components of the air conditioning system, or by special concentrator towers wherein moisture is removed from brine that is circulated to the towers from the pond.
Claims13
A system of moisture and temperature conditioning air, comprising:
- (a) a first tower, comprising (I) means for simultaneously moisture and temperature conditioning air circulated through the tower, including distribution means adjacent the vertically uppermost top of the tower for directing liquid sorbent downwardly into contact with air circulating through the tower, and (II) a first sump adjacent the vertically lowermost bottom of the tower in which liquid sorbent, diluted with moisture, collects after it moves downwardly through the tower;
- (b) a vertically elongated second tower in which diluted liquid sorbent is concentrated, the second tower being in spaced relation from the first tower and comprising, (I) means for evaporating water from the liquid sorbent into air circulated through the second tower, including distribution means for directing liquid sorbent into contact with the air, and (II) a second sump in which liquid sorbent collects after it moves downwardly through the second tower;
- (c) means for circulating liquid sorbent between the first and second sumps;
- (d) a solar pond, remote from the towers, including a liquid which is heated by the sun and in which heating energy is stored, the pond having a bottom which is spaced from an upper surface which is closer the sun, the liquid of the pond being a brine solution having a concentration of salt which increases with the depth of the pond;
- (e) means for using heating energy from the solar pond to evaporate water from the sorbent brine into air circulated through the second tower;
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- (f) means for maintaining the concentration of salt in the pond.
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