Apparatus and method for producing water from air
AssigneeEcotek International, Inc.
InventorJohn Hutchinson
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Abstract
An apparatus and method are extracting water from the ambient air comprising drawing air through an particle ionizer grid, evaporator plates of a refrigerant system the system and recirculating the ionized air and mixing said ionized air with ambient air and recycling said mixed air through said ionizer and evaporator plates to extract moisture from the air. The system utilizes sensors to constantly sense and predictively respond to multiple parameters, monitored at multiple points in the system to predictively and efficiently adjust the system operation to continually maximize the extraction of water regardless of ambient temperature and humidity.
Claims10
A system for extracting water from ambient air, said system comprising,
- a) a housing;
- b) first fan means for drawing ambient air into a first section of said housing;
- c) a particle ionizer, said fan means driving said ambient air through said ionizer to ionize the air;
- d) a refrigerant system including evaporator plate array positioned to have the ionized air pass adjacent said plate array to cool said air, said refrigerant system cooling said air to a temperature below the dew point of said air to cause water vapor condensation on said plates.
- e) second fan means for drawing ambient air into a second section of said housing;
- f) chamber means for mixing said ionized air and ambient air;
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- g) a conduit for conducting said mixed air from said chamber means to re-circulate and feed back into the stream of air inputted into said ionizer;
- and,
- h) means for collecting the water condensed on said plates.
A method of extracting water from air, said method consisting of the steps of:
- a) drawing a first volume of air into a housing;
- b) ionizing said air;
- c) cooling said air;
- d) drawing a second volume of air into said housing;
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- e) mixing said ionized air with said second volume of air.
A system for extracting water from air, said system comprising,
- a) a housing for the system;
- b) first means for drawing ambient air into said housing;
- c) an ionizing grid for ionizing said drawn air;
- d) a refrigeration subsystem for cooling said drawn air below its dew point;
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- f) means in said housing for recirculating said drawn air;
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- g) water collecting means mounted to receive water from said refrigeration subsystem.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.