Patent ID: 6293121
Filing Date: 2001-09-25
Classification: B01D,B63B,B63J,B64C,E02B,F03B,F03D,F05B,F24F,F28D,Y02A,Y02B,Y02E

Abstract:
A spray-mist-evaporation-blower/air-pump-condensation system, that speeds up evaporation of liquids, and speeds up condensation of vapors, for various applications including production of cold and humid air that is supplied into a place, and/or feed into an engine, and production of potable water out of the sea water or out of water vapor, to name a few,wherein, water is sprayed in the form of fine mist by a plurality of atomizer nozzles to maximize water surface exposed to the environment;wherein, the fine mist is enclosed by a structurally strong against implosion air duct serving as vacuum evaporation chamber made resistant to the action of salt and heat insulated, the air duct made variably horizontal or vertical;wherein, the vacuum air duct, appurtenant components, and supporting structures, are made of glass and other materials resistant to salt action in a new structural; design so as to minimize materials by having braces, truss reinforcements, inflated structures and parts, interior curtains with weep holes, among others;wherein, the vacuum air duct is variably made adaptable to be assembled on land, floating on water, standing in the air, and submerged underwater for various additional functions and new applications such as, floating platform, floating sea wall, and underwater chamber/house, to name a few;wherein, moving air or wind is introduced at the inlet thru the evaporation air duct to prevent saturation of humidity inside the chamber and to move the air-water mixture as cold air out of the air duct;wherein, the air duct evaporation chamber is vacuumed to further speed up evaporation of the mist inside the air duct/chamber and to maximize cooling efficiency upon the air-water mixture;wherein, the evaporation vacuum chamber/duct is made sufficiently long to provide enough time for the water mist to evaporate completely while traveling along the length of the chamber;wherein, to provide high efficiency in spraying water mist, a plurality of venturi nozzles run by compressed air exhausting through the nozzle and used to spray mist inside the entrance section of the evaporation air duct;wherein, a high pressure multi-tube heat exchange cooling radiator is placed inside and alone the length of the evaporation chamber to maximize cooling of a separate source dry fresh air passing through the radiator, the resulting cold dry air being supplied to a house or an office;wherein, alternatively, after the vapor is cleaned by a cyclone cleaner, the high pressure water vapor coming from the cyclone cleaner is passed through the heat exchange cooling radiator tubes or cold plates to effect condensation of vapor into water;wherein, an air cleaning multistage centrifugal pump/gas turbine/blower, having an inlet communicated to the exhaust end of the evaporation chamber/air duct is used to vacuum the evaporation air duct and used to compress the resulting cold air-water mixture be rapid expulsion of vapor at its outlet end;wherein, an air throttle gate is provided at the inlet of the evaporation chamber to limit the entrance of air getting into the chamber to maintain the desired level of vacuum inside the evaporation chamber;wherein, the outlet end of the gas turbine is communicated to the inlet of a centrifugal cyclone dust separator as an integral part of this evaporator/cooling device, in order to remove all excess water particles and dusts of salts from the cold air-water mixture before the cold air is finally supplied to a house or office;wherein, the outlet of the centrifugal cyclone dust separator is communicated to the inlet of a gas turbine engine thereby feeding the resulting clean cold air-water mixture to the engine to increase the power output of the engine;wherein, alternatively, the clean cold air-water mixture from the outlet of the cyclone separator is released in the form of high pressure fine tiny bubbles through a deep cold drinking water to condense excess humidity and added to the drinking water;wherein, the dehumidified air coming out of the drinking water is recycled to blow water mist through the venturi nozzle atomizers inside the evaporation chamber to make sure the atomizing air is clean; andwherein, air supply direct from the atmosphere is pre-cleaned by releasing compressed air in the form of fine tiny bubbles under water before it is fed into a cooling radiator;comprising:an air duct made of glass and/or other materials resistant to acid/salt action, and resistant against implosion, serving as an evaporation vacuum chamber, having an inlet end, a first 1/4 section, a first 1/4 point, a last 1/4 point, a last 1/4 section, a first half section, a ceiling, a floor and an outlet end, the chamber made spacious a with sufficient length to provide evaporation time for the mist;a connector lip provided to each inlet and outlet end of the chamber; a front cover plate, having air throttle gates, attached by bolts to the inlet connector lip of the chamber;the vacuum air duct and its supporting structures having braces, trusses, struts, interior curtains with weep holes, inflated heat insulators and inflated structures in a new structural design and configuration so as to minimize construction materials,a main pressurized air supply duct piercing thru, and attached to, the front cover plate of the chamber, having an air outlet mouth serving as blower to push out the mist forward thru the evaporation chamber; [( see part 23 of FIG. 3, & last line of page 14 and line 1 of page 15 in the description of FIG. 3 )]a high pressure liquid header pipe piercing the cover plate and attached to the ceiling of, and within the first half section of, the chamber, and across the outlet mouth of the main air supply duct; [(see part 4 of FIG. 3)]a plurality of high pressure tube nipples, each having an inlet spacedly connected to the liquid header pipe, and an outlet pointed downward;a high pressure misting/atomizer nozzle functionally connected to the outlet of each nipple, to supply mists downward into the chamber;a main liquid supply pipe/hose communicated to the liquid header pipe;a plurality of atomizers attached/installed on the chamber's floor, within the first half section of, and to supply mist upward into, the chamber;a couple of a liquid tube and a compressed air tube piercing the floor of the chamber and functionally connected to each atomizer;a heat insulator/shelter wrapped around said liquid supply pipe;a heat insulator wrapped around or covering the chamber/air duct;an air cleaning multistage centrifugal air pump-vacuum/blower device, having an inlet and an outlet connector lips, connected to the outlet end connector lip of the evaporation vacuumed chamber;a clean compressed air inlet header pipe, having an inlet and having an outlet section that pierced thru the first 1/4 point of, and having branches into, the chamber;a cold compressed air outlet header pipe, having an inlet section that pierced thru the last 1/4 point of, and having branches into, the chamber, and having an outlet end communicated to cool a house/office;a plurality of cooling radiator compressed air tubes spacedly arranged inside of, and parallel to, the chamber, and spacedly connected to, and inter-communicating, the clean compressed air inlet header pipe branches with the branches of the cold air outlet header pipe;a closed water tank, having:--a top,--a bottom side, a compressed air inlet header pipe piercing the bottom side of, and branching inside, the tank,--a clean air outlet header pipe communicated to, and piercing thru the top of, the tank,--a water supply inlet pipe communicated with and supplying clean water into the water tank,--and, a dirty water low level outlet pipe communicated with the water tank;a header pipe connector inter-communicating the air inlet of the cooling radiator with the clean air outlet header pipe of the water tank;a plurality of perforated tubes spacedly connected to and communicated with the branches of the air header pipe inside the water tank, and submerged underwater in the water tank releasing tiny bubbles of air into the bottom of the water, for purposes of cleaning the air and to pressurize the air before being released into the water;an air duct communicated with the outlet header pipe of the cooling radiator, the other end of which communicated with a house air duct, to supply dry cold air into the house or an office/work building;a water pipe communicated with the dirty water outlet of the water tank, the other end of which communicated with a plurality of water atomizer nozzles that spray water upon another high pressure condensation radiator tube assembly inside another vacuum evaporation chamber;a centrifugal cyclone air cleaner, having an inlet and an outlet connector lips, with its inlet lip connected to the outlet connector lip of the vacuum pump; the cyclone air cleaner, being a new hybrid design, specially having a peripheral instilling chamber that is enclosed by and in between an outer vertical main drum body and by a perforated inner vertical drum wall;a main discharge air duct, in the form of a centrifugal-air-cleaning pipe having an internal helix/corkscrew wide face fin, connected to the outlet lip of the cyclone air cleaner, while another end of which connected to an air intake:--of an air conditioning system of a building,--of an abode place,--of a work place,--of an engine to multiply its power output,--of a high pressure condensation radiator tube assembly, and,--of a high pressure cold drinking water tank for condensation.