Patent ID: 8568106

Claim:
An electrohydrodynamic conduction liquid/liquid film pumping system, comprising: a vessel configured to contain a liquid/liquid film therein; a single pair or multi-pairs of electrodes disposed in a radially spaced apart relationship to each other inside the vessel and configured to be oriented in said liquid/liquid film; a power supply coupled to the electrodes and configured to generate electric fields in-between each electrode pair to induce a net radial pumping of said liquid/liquid film; a heat source, said heat source producing heat sufficient to boil and vaporize said liquid/liquid film while non-vaporized liquid/liquid film moving toward the said heat source prevents over-heating of said heat source; and a heat sink, said heat sink being at a temperature below the vaporization temperature of said liquid/liquid film so that contact of said vapor with the heat sink will condense the vapor into a liquid/liquid film to replenish the liquid/liquid film supply moving toward the heat source.