US2008047290A1PendingUtilityA1
Method and apparatus for the alternatively based upon the only energy of sun-heat and cosmic cold obtainings of: water from the atmospheric air & hydrogen - fuel from the fresh water
Individually held — no corporate assignee on recordPriority: Aug 26, 2006Filed: Aug 26, 2006Published: Feb 28, 2008
Est. expiryAug 26, 2026(~0.1 yrs left)· nominal 20-yr term from priority
Inventors:Harry Y. Zagalsky
Y02A20/00E03B 3/28
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Abstract
A method and an apparatus are intended to stop and overcome the known shortage of the fresh water, for people and their properties, through its obtaining by freezing-out from the atmospheric air, even in the most arid, but sunny, areas of the Earth, as well as to substitute the organic and nuclear fuels by the hydrogen-fuel obtained, by decomposition of the fresh water, as the materialized energy of the concentrated and accumulated Sun-heat and of the accumulated night cosmic cold.
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exact text as granted — not AI-modified1 . A method for the alternatively based upon the only energy of Sun-heat and cosmic cold obtainings of water from the atmospheric air & the hydrogen-fuel from the fresh water which method provides: to freeze-out the gaseous water from the uninterruptedly re-newed atmospheric air, primarily, by consolidating of the water molecules as the primary solid-state water upon some freezing-out substance which is a gaseous, or liquid, or solid cold-transmitter or a combination of such cold-transmitters are recipients of cold from some ecologically clean energy-supplied source(s) of cold, then by accumulating, on and on, a thickness of the solid-state water upon the primarily consolidated and previously accumulated frozen-out solid-state water, and to assimilate this uninterruptedly reedified accumulation of the solid-state water, concurrently, in the liquid water collected in the reservoir-accumulator taking warmth from some ecologically clean energy-supplied source; to get the cold-transmitter(s) screened, by the multifunctional screen, from the strange heat-influxes; to precool, under this screen, the atmospheric air before its interaction with the cold-transmitter(s);
to reflect, by this screen, and to concentrate, by this screen, the Sun-heat-radiation in the heat-accumulator, above this screen; to receive, by this screen, the night cosmic cold and to transmit it into the cold-accumulator, under this screen (to transmit, by night, into cosmos, the heat from the cold-accumulator, under this screen); to transform, round the clock, the energy of the Sun-heat and of the night cosmic cold (that means the difference of temperatures between working mediums in the accumulators of heat and of cold) into refrigeration-output of the source of cold for the freezing-out of water from the atmospheric air and into power for the electrolytical or direct-thermal obtaining of hydrogen from the fresh water, if this obtaining is necessary and attainable within the regional possibilities of Sun-heat.
2 . The method of claim {circle around ( 1 )}, wherein the solid cold-transmitter is a fixed solid clod, the source of cold is the cosmic space, itself, and this natural cold is accumulated by this cold-transmitter and by the uninterruptedly re-edified accumulation of the solid-state water is assimilated, concurrently, by melting in the liquid water, collected in the reservoir-accumulator, by means of an immersion heat-contact of the lower ends of this cold-transmitter and the solid water accumulation upon this cold-transmitter with the liquid water, which lower ends prevent, mechanically, this collected liquid water from evaporation back into the atmospheric air leaves for the outside open room.
3 . The method of claim {circle around ( 2 )}, wherein the natural cold is accumulated by the cold-transmitter and by the accumulation of the solid water upon this cold-transmitter by the means of as protecting them from some radiant and convective external heat-influxes as leaving them able to send their warmth radiantly to the source of cold.
4 . The method of claim {circle around ( 2 )}, wherein the immersion heat-contact of the lower end of the cold-transmitter with the liquid water collected in the reservoir-accumulator gets the solid water accumulation upon cold-transmitter melted along all the common surface of their touch by the means of the heat-mass transfer inside the—cold-transmitter provided to be hollow and filled with a working medium gets boiled only at the bottom and condensed at the rest surface of the internal volume of the cold-transmitter closed by its wall of the high heat-conduction.
5 . The method of claim {circle around ( 3 )}, wherein the cold-transmitter and the accumulation of the solid water upon this cold-transmitter, in order to be as protected from some radiant and convective external heat-influxes, as left able to send their warmth radiantly to the source of cold, are provided to be gotten surrounded by such a screen which, being hollow and filled with a working medium that gets boiled only at the bottom and condensed at the rest surface of its internal volume, is as transparent for heat-streams directed from-under the screen against the Earth-gravitation, as irresistable for heat-streams directed in some apposite way and, at the same time, reflects the Sun-rays by its upper surface(s) that is (those are) provided to be mirror(s).
6 . The method of claim {circle around ( 1 )}, wherein the cold-transmitter is an evaporator of a refrigeration machine, which machine is an arti-ficial source of cold takes energy from some noticed source(s) and wherein the accumulation of the solid water, upon this cold-transmitter, is gotten quasi-liquid through vibration makes this solid water accumulation slide down, contact and cover the liquid water collected in the reservoir-accumulator, prevents this water from evaporation back into the leaving atmospheric air, and get assimilated in this liquid water by melting.
7 . The method of claim {circle around ( 1 )}, wherein the cold-transmitter is morsels and particles of some solid stuff or droplets of an overcooled oil as well as of any other overcooled liquid are inert to water, which cold-transmitter is provided to get mixed with a stream of the coming up atmospheric air, to get driven by this stream, to get freezing-out the gaseous water from this streaming atmospheric air, to get accumulating, upon itself, a thickness of the solid water accumulation, and, finally, to get leaving this stream for the liquid water collected in the reservoir-accumulator, which water assimilates its solid water accumulation by melting.
8 . The method of claim {circle around ( 7 )}, wherein the cold-transmitter is determined to be exclusively the smallest particles of the solid water which particles are prepared from the liquid water collected in the reservoir-accumulator by the means of some atomizing, freezing, and overcooling devices and which particles, having left the stream; of the atmospheric air, cover the liquid water in the reservoir-accumulator and prevent this liquid water from some evaporation back into the atmospheric air gets leaving for the outside open room or some compressing device can be a part of an artificial source of cold.
9 . The method of claim {circle around ( 1 )}, wherein the uninterruptedly renewed atmospheric air, before to get affected by a cold-transmitter, gets precooled in a spacious open enough room, surrounding a cold-transmitter's locality, where the ground of this room accumulates the natural cold, being, together with a cold-transmitter's locality, under a hollow screen, filled with a working medium which gets boiled at the bottom, hidden in a cold-accumulator not too deep under the ground of this room, and gets condensed at the rest surface of the internal volume of this screen, so, makes this screen be transparent for heat-streams are directed from-under the screen to the cosmic space—the source of the natural cold and be irresistable for heat-streams are directed in any apposite way, while the upper surface of this screen is provided to be a mirror reflecting the Sun-heat-radiation.
10 . The method of claim {circle around ( 5 )} & {circle around ( 9 )} wherein streams of the Sun-heat, which are reflected by the upper mirror surface(s) of the screen(s), if it's necessary, may get extremely concentrated by this(ese) mirror surface(s), which may be provided to be parabolical one(s), and may get accumulated in the small locality at the focus of this (these) surface(s) by some devices, among them by such ones which, directly decomposing water thermally, use this water as the accumulating working medium and let have the obtained hydrogen as a Sun-heat-accumulation.
11 . The method of claim {circle around ( 10 )}, wherein the concentrated Sun-heat and the night cosmic cold get accumulated, in accumulators, through some convertible changing of the unit state of some working medium (melting-cristalization) and these accumulations of these heat and cold get used for their conversion, the clock round (as while the light-day accumulation of heat, as while the night accumulation of cold), into energy-source of the cryogenic cold, or for some electro-generating machine, & thermo-electrical transformer, & hydrogen electro-generator.
12 . The method of claim {circle around ( 11 )}, wherein energy of the Sun-heat and the night cosmic cold, that is the difference of temperatures of the working mediums in accumulators of heat and cold, may be conversed into electro-power produced by a converter which may be exposed, at its “hot” part, by the high temperature, at its “cold” part, by the lower temperature, interacting, electrically, with the decomposing the fresh water, was possibly, obtained from the atmospheric air, electrolyzer, after which, the obtained hydrogen and oxygen may be separatedly liquefied and containerized to get transportable & into refrigeration-output of some absorption refrigeration machine & power of a heat-mechanical machine with a boiler, of each of them, exposed by the high temperature, with a condenser, of each of them, and with an absorber, of the absorption refrigeration machine, exposed by the lower temperature, such as to let these machines be the source of cold to freeze-out water from the atmospheric air.
13 . An apparatus to realize the method of claim {circle around ( 1 )}, which apparatus includes: a substantial cold-transmitter(s); an organizer of interaction between the cold-transmitter(s), with the solid water accumulation upon it(them), and the constantly renewed portions of the atmospheric air; a reservoir-accumulator of the collected liquid water with an entrance open for the current portions of the solid water accumulation and with an exit for the liquid water to leave for usage; the multifunctional screen which surrounds the locality of these “transmitter(s)”, “organizer”, and “reservoir” and, substituting, by itself, functionally, several appropriate (possible) components of this apparatus, protects this locality from the strange heat-influxes, receives the night cosmic cold (transmits, by night, the received heat to cosmos), reflects and, if it's necessary, concentrates the Sun-heat-radiation, gets the night cosmic cold into accumulator of cold (takes warmth from the accumulator of cold and transmits it to cosmos) which (accumulator) gets some part of this cold spent for precooling of the atmospheric air before its entering into the “organizer”, gets structurally-packagingly combined (itself) with accumulators of cold and of the concentrated Sun-heat, which (accumulators), in their turn, get structurally-packagingly combined with heat-converters those converse the energy of these heat and cold (of difference of temperatures between working-mediums of these accumulators) into electrical & mechanical power & refrigeration-output for obtainings of water from the atmospheric air and of the hydrogen-fuel from the fresh water which water gets (itself) decomposed electrolytically, or direct-thermally in a device which interacts with this apparatus as its structural partner if it is necessary.
14 . The apparatus of claim {circle around ( 13 )}, wherein: a substantial cold-transmitter, which is a fixed, solid, hollow, filled with a working medium, and made from the heat-conductive thinwalled material clod, is disposed above the reservoir-accumulator of the collected liquid water; an organizer of interaction between this cold-transmitter with the solid water accumulation upon it, and the constantly renewed portions of the atmospheric air is an air-flow-inducer which is disposed and fastened just above the top of this cold-transmitter and makes the rising air-flow wash the all current surface of the solid water accumulation; a reservoir-accumulator of the collected liquid water is a rest-support of this cold-transmitter and (is) equiped to control the level of this liquid water such as to get it, when necessary, heat-contacted with the lower ends of this cold transmitter and its solid water accumulation.
15 . The apparatus of claim {circle around ( 14 )}, wherein the fixed solid cold-transmitter is combined, if it's necessary, with a gaseous cold-transmitter—the freezingly cold air which (air) comes from the cold end(s) of the Vortex tube(s) immersed, together with some part of its(their) connecting tube to the air-compressor, in the liquid water collected in the reservoir-accumulator that lets some part of this water go (through a tube) to (the top of) the fixed solid cold-transmitter such as to be dropped and frozen-on upon this cold-transmitter by the gaseous cold-transmitter, together with its foggy-like solid water accumulation gets frozen-out from the atmospheric air and frozen-on upon the previous layers of the solid water accumulation covering this fixed cold-transmitter.
16 . The apparatus of claim {circle around ( 13 )}, wherein: a substantial cold-transmitter is a compact evaporator of a freezing refrigeration machine which evaporator has its smooth vertical heat-exchange surface fastened, just above, to the reservoir-accumulator of the collected liquid water; an organizer of interaction between this cold-transmitter, with the solid water accumulation upon it, and the constantly renewed portions of the atmospheric air includes an air-flow-inducer disposed just above and fastened to a fencing wall of the evaporator, which wall, indeed, turns the evaporator into a canal of this organizer; the reservoir-accumulator of the collected liquid water is fastened upon a platform of a vibrator.
17 . The apparatus of claim {circle around ( 13 )}, wherein a substantial cold-transmitter is a totality of the myriad smallest droplets of the over-cooled solid water; an organizer of interaction between this cold-transmitter, with the solid water accumulation upon it, and the constantly renewed portions of the atmospheric air includes a canal of four substantial zones and an air-flow-inducer of two sub-stantial parts; the first zone of the canal begins from the pushing part of the air-flow-inducer and makes the atmospheric air get accelerated up to its involving speed; the second zone of the canal is a chamber where the myriad smallest droplets of the liquid water get frozen and overcooled in the stream of the freezing air comes from the cold end(s) of the Vortex tube(s); the third zone of the canal is a chamber of interaction whereinto the droplets of the cold-transmitter are gotten involved by the stream of the atmospheric air, where they air, gotten mixed with the atmospheric air, freeze-out from this are the gaseous water, increase the solid water accumulation upon themselves, lose, up to zero, the speed of their movement along this zone, and fall down upon the surface of the collected liquid water, which surface is the lower border of this zone, which zone gets uninterruptedly widened as the droplets move; the fourth zone of the canal is a chanber where-from the dried atmospheric air is pulled out by the means of the pulling part of the air-flow-inducer disposed at the top of this zone and whereinto this atmospheric air is pulled by the means of holes in the wall between this zone and the third zone below it, which holes force the atmospheric air stream to stop, to release droplets, and to make a U-turn such as to enter this zone, through these holes are disposed just above the entrance of the reservoir-accumulator of the collected liquid water; reservoir-accumulator of the collected liquid water is a basement disposed under the third zone of the canal of the organizer and beside the first and the second zones of this canal, having common walls with these zones, and having, inside, the immersed in the collected liquid water Vortex tube(s), its(their) connecting tube to the air-compressor, and a device which turns the liquid water into the myriad smallest droplets; moreover, the centre of the bottom wall of the fourth zone, which is the top wall of the third zone, is speared from above into the first zone of the canal of the organizer such as to force the stream of the atmospheric air to keep on getting smoothly accelerated and to start its spiral move which move is supported by juts of this wall; and, moreover again, the cold end(s) of the Vortex tube(s) is(are) out of the reservoir-accumlator of the collected liquid water and immersed, a little bit, in the second zone of the canal, same as the shooting end(s) of the droplet-making device(s) is(are), while the “hot” end(s) of the Vortex tube(s) is(are) juted outside, a little bit, from the reservoir-accumulator of the collected liquid water.
18 . The apparatus of claim {circle around ( 13 )}, wherein the multifunctional screen is a hollow, made from the heat-conductive thinwalled enough material, figure of two separated Chambers, filled separatedly with their boiling working mediums, and of four zones in shape: the first is the upper zone which has, if it's necessary, the parabolical mirror top surface and screens a ground area that is considerably wider than the disposed under this zone area of the “city”-locality of the combined cold-transmitter, “organizer” and reservoir-accumulator of the collected liquid water; the second is the lower zone which, being hidden in a cold-accumulator, a little bit under the ground, is as wide, or wider, as the ground area screened by the upper zone of the screen; the third zone is the vertical columns between the upper and the lower zones, which columns are disposed in vertexes of the polyhedron that surrounds the area of the “city”-locality that disposed under the central part of the upper zone of the screen; the fourth zone is the totality of the vertical sides of this polyhedron, each of which sides continues the first, second and third zones of the screen and has a window where there are valve-blades which are able to shut up the “city”-locality under the first zone or to direct the atmospheric air into the “organizer” or upon the surface of the solid water accumulation covering the fixed clod of the solid cold-transmitter; the central part of the first zone of the screen, within columns and sides of the polyhedron, is the first chamber of the screen filled with the boiling working medium such as to get and accumulate inside the locality disposed under this chamber the night natural cold with the lowest possible temperature; the rest volume of the first, second, third and fourth zones of the screen is the second chamber of this screen filled with the boiling working medium such as to get and accumulate the night cosmic cold and to keep around the polyhedron of columns and sides under the the rest part of the first zone of the screen such a temperature of any surfaces before the entrance of the organizer or before the solid water accumulation upon the fixed clod of the solid cold-transmitter which temperature gets the atmospheric air good precooled, but prevented from a loss of its gaseous water as a dew upon these surfaces.
19 . The apparatus of claim {circle around ( 18 )}, wherein each of the valve-blades is hollow, filled with a thermo-sensetively changing the pressure working medium, and able, being immovably fastened by one of its three “hollow”-forming plates, to turn two others and to bend one of these two under the force of the surplus pressure in the “hollow” such as to shut up each of windows automatically by the groups of valve-blades, are, indeed, in their totality, the third chmber of the screen, when the atmospheric air before them is too warm, or to get each of windows open and to make the atmospheric air enter the “organizer” or contact the solid water accumulation upon the fixed clod of the solid cold-transmitter when the temperature of the atmospheric air is good to do so; which groups may have some other drive as well.
20 . The apparatus of claim {circle around ( 18 )}, wherein, in the upper zone of the screen, there is an open (through), but keeping closed the cavity of the screen, hole with a flexible tube to receive the leaving dehydrated atmospheric air and to get this air outside (to its user), and the upper part of columns and sides, above windows of sides of the polyhedron, are also flexible and length-variable such as to let, if it is necessary, the upper zone of the screen, being driven by a drive located under this zone, follow the “moving” Sun.Join the waitlist — get patent alerts
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