US 9,803,859 B2 · Oxygen enrichment of atmospheric air using relative motion

Abstract

The specification and drawings present a new apparatus and method for continuously providing an oxygen-enriched gas/air using a relative motion of selected surface(s) of an apparatus (such as fossil-fueled combustion device/vehicle) relative to an atmospheric air with a speed exceeding a threshold value for, e.g., improving combustion, exhaust and related properties of the apparatus. An oxygen-enriched gas/air layer can be formed along/near each aforementioned surface from the atmospheric air due to pushing the atmospheric air along the surface(s) during that relative motion and collected by corresponding collector gate(s) located inside the apparatus near/adjacent to the corresponding surface. The apparatus can be an object (e.g., a vehicle) moving through the atmospheric air with a relative speed exceeding the threshold value. Alternatively, the apparatus can be a stationary object (e.g., a power generator) while the atmospheric air, having a desired speed exceeding the threshold value, is moved/blown toward the stationary object.

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Dependent claims

An apparatus, comprising:

one or more surfaces configured, when are engaged in a relative motion with an atmospheric air comprising oxygen (O2) and nitrogen (N2), to form an oxygen-enriched gas/air layer along/near each surface of the one or more surfaces by pushing the atmospheric air along the one or more surfaces during said relative motion, where each of the one or more surfaces having an angle of a normal at any surface point with a direction of said relative motion to be above zero degrees;
and
one or more collector gates, each located inside the apparatus adjacent to corresponding one of said one or more surfaces, each collector gate is configured, when a speed of the relative motion exceeds a threshold value, to collect an oxygen-enriched gas/air, by pulling, in the formed oxygen-enriched gas/air layer, based on a higher external pressure built in a space near the corresponding surface of the one or more surfaces than an internal pressure in a corresponding space inside of the each collector gate.

A method comprising:

monitoring a speed of an apparatus engaged in a relative motion with an atmospheric air comprising oxygen (O2) and nitrogen (N2),), where one or more surfaces of the apparatus are configured to form an oxygen-enriched gas/air layer along/near each surface of the one or more surfaces by pushing the atmospheric air along the one or more surfaces during said relative motion, where each of the one or more surfaces having an angle of a normal at any surface point with a direction of said relative motion to be above zero degrees;
and when the speed of the relative motion exceeds a threshold value, collecting an oxygen-enriched gas/air by each of one or more collector gates, each collector gate is located inside the apparatus adjacent to corresponding one of said one or more surfaces, and each collector gate is configured to collect, by pulling in, the formed oxygen-enriched gas/air layer, based on a higher external pressure built in a space near the corresponding surface of the one or more surfaces than an internal pressure in a corresponding space inside of the each collector gate.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Oxygen enrichment of atmospheric air using relative motion

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Abstract

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