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US 8,523,980 B2Granted
Clean water reclamation from humid air
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InventorJavier Fernandez-Han
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An apparatus for water reclamation includes an inlet head for admitting warm humid ambient air, a buried pipe coupled at a first end to the inlet head and sloping downward in the ground from the first end. Water condenses as the air is cooled in the buried pipe and collects in a cistern coupled at a second end of the buried pipe. A tube coupled at a lower end near the second end of the buried pipe includes a heated element extending at least partially into the tube from an upper end of the tube. Cooled air is heated by the heated element and is expelled at the top of the tube. A heater is coupled to an upper end of the heated element. The heater may be a solar collector with a Bernoulli aperture.
An apparatus for water reclamation comprising:
A method for water reclamation comprising:
A water reclamation system comprising:
A passive apparatus for dehumidification comprising:
A passive apparatus for water reclamation comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.
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Methods or installations for obtaining or collecting drinking water or tap water: from humid air
By centrifugal forces: generated by rotating vanes, discs, drums or brushes
Filters or filtering processes specially modified for separating dispersed particles from gases or vapours: particle separators, e.g. dust…
Combinations of methods or devices for separating particles from gases or vapours: combinations of devices covered by groups B01D45/00 and B01D46/00
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I. Field
The following description relates generally to water reclamation and more particularly to a method and apparatus for reclamation of clean water from humid air.
II. Background
These and other sample aspects of the invention will be described in the detailed description that follow, and in the accompanying drawings, wherein:
FIG. 1 is a conceptual illustration of a water reclamation system in accordance with an aspect of the disclosure;
FIG. 2 is a conceptual illustration of an inlet for warm humid air of the system of FIG. 1;
In accordance with common practice, some of the drawings may be simplified for clarity. Thus, the drawings may not depict all of the components of a given apparatus (e.g., device) or method. Finally, like reference numerals may be used to denote like features throughout the specification and figures.
Various aspects of methods and apparatus are described more fully hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings. These methods and apparatus may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to any specific structure or function presented throughout this disclosure. Rather, these aspects are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of these methods and apparatus to those skilled in the art. Based on the descriptions herein teachings herein one skilled in the art should appreciate that that the scope of the disclosure is intended to cover any aspect of the methods and apparatus disclosed herein, whether implemented independently of or combined with any other aspect of the disclosure. For example, an apparatus may be implemented or a method may be practiced using any number of the aspects set forth herein. In addition, the scope of the disclosure is intended to cover such an apparatus or method which is practiced using other structure, functionality, or structure and functionality in addition to or other than the various aspects of the disclosure set forth herein. It should be understood that any aspect of the disclosure herein may be embodied by one or more elements of a claim.
In a climate of a tropical jungle or rainforest environment, humidity may be quite high, with significant rainfall. However, runoff water collection from rainfall in tropical climates may not guarantee a pure source of water, because of the contact with contaminants the rainwater may have with exposed surface collection systems.