Patent ID: 9694397
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: B08B

Claim:
1. In a vehicle (A) having supply ducts for drinking water, a method for dynamic cleaning of a supply duct for drinking water of the vehicle (A), comprising creating a shockwave ( 0 ) in the duct to be cleaned, the supply duct having a first end and a second end; the method comprising: (a) partially filling a volume with a liquid, (b) filling the volume that is not occupied by the liquid with gas under pressure, (c) releasing the liquid through a bottleneck communicating with the first end of said duct to be cleaned the second end of said duct being open while maintaining the pressure, the liquid being displaced through the bottleneck by the gas under pressure in order to empty the volume of liquid, in such a way as: to create an accelerated displacement of the liquid from the volume to the supply duct in a first step, create a mixture of gas and liquid in a second step, and create an accelerated displacement of the mixture of gas and of liquid that is created in a second step, and to generate a shockwave (