Patent ID: 9222689
Filing Date: 2015-12-29
Classification: E03B,F24F,Y02A

Abstract:
1. Air conditioning and water generating system comprising: a cooling chamber having a cooling chamber inlet and a cooling chamber outlet; a cooling element disposed within the cooling chamber between the cooling chamber inlet and cooling chamber outlet; a supply air passage connecting the cooling chamber outlet to an interior environment of a building; a forced air system operable to draw atmospheric air from an external environment outside the building through the cooling chamber inlet and past the cooling element; a water collection system configured to collect water that condenses from the atmospheric air during flow thereof past the cooling element under operation of the forced air system; a control system operable to control air flow through the supply air passage and thereby switch between an air conditioning mode, in which flow through the supply air passage is allowed to supply the interior environment with cooled air from the cooling chamber, and a water generating mode, in which the flow through the supply air passage to the interior environment is closed off, whereby water condensed from the atmospheric air by operation of the cooling element in the cooling chamber is collected by the water collection system in both the air conditioning and water generating modes; a return air passage connected between the interior environment of the building and the cooling chamber, the forced air system being operable in the air conditioning mode to direct a flow of return air from the interior environment past the cooling element with a flow of fresh atmospheric air entering the cooling chamber inlet from the exterior environment; and a shortcut path openable and closeable between the supply air passage and the return air passage, the control system being configured to open the shortcut path in the water generating mode in order to shortcut the supply air passage to the return air passage in order to recirculate at least some of the cooled air from the cooling chamber back to the cooling chamber for a subsequent pass therethrough without circulation of said cooled air through the interior environment of the building.