SELF-PROPELLED
INSTALLATION YIELDING FRESH WATER FROM ATMOSPHERIC AIR
Water is a vitally
necessary substation - the main component of life on the Earth. It is a lot of
fresh water on the Earth, but it is located extremely unevenly in the
convenient form for use. The huge stocks of fresh water are concentrated in a
terrestrial atmosphere (in 1 m3 of air contains from 0.001 kg up to
0.01 kg of water). Fresh water can be made from "air". The elementary
example can serve by all known conditioners, at work of which a lot of
condensate of clean fresh water is formed. The skilled installations are
already created on the basis of the conditioner, which at an expense of energy
about 2 kW take from air of 140 liters of fresh water per day. On the first
sight such prospect looks tempting, if not the rather large expenses of
electrical energy, the manufacture of which is not environmentally safe.
We have developed a method
of extraction of fresh water from air without expenses of energy. The main idea
of it is that condensation of steams of water is followed by discharge of
energy, which we use for own needs of work of installation, there is even a
large surplus. Such installations are capable to make hundreds tons of water
and additional energy. They are much more perspective, than freshening
installations, since at freshening large volume of overflow salty water is
formed. It represents ecological danger.
By means of our
installation it is possible to transform deserts and near deserts into
blossoming surfaces of the Earth. It is possible to design "pocket"
distiller based on our method for individual usage.
These are the
characteristics of three possible updatings of self-propelled installation
yielding fresh water from atmospheric air.
|
¹ items |
Type of installation |
Productivity, l/day |
Mass, kg |
The sizes, m |
The price, US $ thousand |
|
1. |
Portable for individual usage |
5.0 |
2¸3 |
0.3*0.3*0.2 |
0.4 |
|
2. |
Mobile |
100 |
75¸100 |
0.5*0.5*1.0 |
0.8 |
|
3. |
Stationary |
100000 |
5000¸10000 |
5.0*1.0*0.7 |
80.0 |
The investments make US
$500 thousand, price of the know-how - US $5 million, term of realization - 6
months, payback time - 6 months.