ES1062793U - Potable water generator (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Drinking water generator, which is specially designed to obtain water by freezing the moisture in the air, is characterized by being constituted from a refrigerator, whose evaporator coil incorporates a grid materialized in a plurality of profusely perforated sheets based on copper or other material with a high coefficient of thermal transmission, or superconducting the cold, collaborating with this grid a fan that takes air from the outside and passes it through the aforementioned grid, for the formation of frost on the same by freezing the humidity existing in the air, having provided for the existence of a second fan that also takes air from the outside and that is assisted by a heating resistance, for passage of hot air through the grid, thawing of the frost existing in the same one and fall by gravity towards a lower tray that channels it towards a collection point provided with a consumption tap. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

Drinking water generator

Object of the invention

The present invention relates to a generator of drinking water, that is water suitable for both human consumption as an animal and used as a source for the generation of same humidity in the air.

Thus, the object of the invention is to achieve a device capable of extracting moisture from the air by converting it in water

The invention is especially suitable for be used in isolated points, of low consumption, far from the drinking water distribution networks and where it is not possible or economically extract water from the subsoil, and also those places in that the water quality of the general network is not recommended for human consumption

Background of the invention

There are different methods to get water there where it does not access naturally, such as the desalination of seawater or the realization of wells for subsoil removal.

When it comes to low consumption points, such as for example isolated cottages, shelters, etc., in many sometimes the necessary investment to access the levels in that the water is found makes it prohibitive, or in others Sometimes water is simply inaccessible due to distance or for other causes.

Recently this problem is being done also extensive to more or less important population centers, in which water scarcity creates constraint problems, and in which sometimes even the low water levels of supply swamps, make it contaminated and that, besides being scarce, is not suitable for consumption.

Description of the invention

The generator that the invention proposes solves in a fully satisfactory manner the above-mentioned problem, allowing the obtaining in situ of drinking water, as previously mentioned by means of extracting the existing moisture in the air.

For this and more specifically the generator which is recommended is equipped with a refrigerator equipment through whose evaporator coil is passed ambient air, properly filtered and pushed by a fan, said coil being immersed in a grid based on copper plates or any superconducting cold material, profusely perforated, of so that the cold generated by the said coil causes the condensation or freezing of moisture in the air over The aforementioned grid. Humidity and temperature sensors, which send information to a microprocessor, detect the frost level of existing ice on the grid, for the implementation of a second fan that circulates air, primarily through a heating resistor and immediately then to through said grid, causing the frost to thaw and its transformation into water, which falls by gravity to a bucket lower from where it is channeled to a collection depot, with its corresponding tap can optionally be filtered by a carbon filter and a UV sterilizer, and filter remineralizer

Humidity and temperature sensors outside the generator housing control the environmental conditions and they also send information to the microprocessor so that the latter duly control the operation of the different elements generator operations, operating at all times with the best energy efficiency, according to the water needs require.

Description of the drawings

To complement the description that is being performing and in order to help a better understanding of the characteristics of the invention, according to an example of practical realization of it, is accompanied as an integral part of said description, a single sheet of plans in which with illustrative and non-limiting nature and in its only figure, it has represented, schematically, in side elevation and with its housing sectioned, a drinking water generator made in accordance with the object of the present invention.

Preferred Embodiment of the Invention

In view of the review figure can be observed as the generator that is recommended is constituted from a housing (1) container of the different elements of the same, in which at a higher level it is established on a grid (2) of access of ambient air to the interior of the housing (1), aspirated by a bidirectional fan (3) located immediately by within said grid (2) between it and a carbon filter (4), or other material to filter mites, dust or other particles harmful to health.

The clean air that accesses the interior of the housing (1) passes through a coil (5), for example based of copper or any other material with a high coefficient of thermal transmission of the cold, coil (5) belonging to a refrigerator equipment (6), of which said coil is the evaporator and where a suitable temperature for freezing is reached, such as for example a temperature between 0 ° C and -7 ° C, or most suitable temperature to cause condensation, according to the Water demand needs.

The most efficient coil or condenser (5) is immersed in a grid (7), based on copper plates profusely perforated, which logically suffer a defendant cooling by effect of said coil (5), so that the stream of air passing through said grid (7) brings I get the freezing of the water in the air and the formation of frost on said grid (7).

Either cyclically or when the amount of frost on the grid (7) as required, is put on operating a second fan (8), facing another grid (9) of the housing (1), bidirectional fan (8) immediately inside which an electrical resistance is established (10) for heating the air, so that said fan (8) supplies hot air to the grill (7), causing rapid defrosting of the accumulated frost on it, becoming water that falls into a lower collection bucket (11) and from it to a warehouse (12) that occupies the lower zone of the housing (1) and which is provided with the corresponding tap (3) for consumption

As a complement to the structure described on more efficient coil or condenser (5) is assisted by a humidity sensor (14) and by a temperature sensor (15), at once another two are established on the outside of the housing (1) sensors, one of humidity (16) and another of temperature (17), so that these sensors permanently supply information to a microprocessor (18) also housed in the housing (1) which is the responsible for controlling all the operational elements of the machine, that is cooling equipment (6), fans bidirectional (3) and (8) and heating resistance (10).

As follows from the above, the Drinking water generator has small dimensions that facilitate its use at the domestic level, in homes since generates a pure and balanced water that cannot be compared with the general network water and comparable to bottled water as a most commonly used appliance at the bar level, Restaurants and the like.

Claims (3)

1. Potable water generator, which being specially designed to obtain water by freezing the humidity in the air, is characterized by being constituted from a cooling equipment, whose evaporating coil incorporates a materialized grid in a plurality of profusely perforated sheets based on copper or other material with a high coefficient of thermal transmission, or superconductor of the cold collaborating with said grid a fan that takes air from the outside and makes it pass through said grid, for the formation of frost on the same by freezing the humidity in the air, having foreseen the existence of a second fan that also takes air from the outside and that is assisted by a heating resistance, for the passage of hot air through the grid, defrosting of the frost existing in it and fall by gravity to a lower bucket that channels it to a dep Collection tank provided with a consumption tap. 2. Drinking water generator according to claim 1, characterized in that the first fan is assisted by a carbon filter that makes the air reach the freezing grid clean. 3. Drinking water generator, according to previous claims, characterized in that a humidity sensor and a temperature sensor are set inside the housing covering the aforementioned elements and in the vicinity of the refrigerator coil, as well as others Two sensors, also one of humidity and another of temperature, are located on the outside of the housing, sending these sensors information to a microprocessor that controls the operating elements of the generator establishing the operating cycles of the same.