100 % renewably -powered desalination /water purification station
20220402793 · 2022-12-22
Inventors
Cpc classification
C02F1/40
CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
C02F2201/009
CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
B01D61/025
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
C02F9/00
CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
B01D65/00
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B01D61/002
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
C02F1/001
CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
B01D1/0005
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B01D61/10
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B01D5/006
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B01D2311/04
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B01D2311/04
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
Y02E10/30
GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
B01D2313/367
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
International classification
C02F9/00
CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
B01D5/00
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B01D61/00
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B01D61/02
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
Abstract
The invention relates to 100% renewably-powered desalination/water purification stations for universal applications, the station is disruptive, scalable, amphibious and deportable to seawater, brackish or spill oil sites for simple wave-powered and autonomous operations, the station has a mooring assembly with pumping-purification-delivery subsystems powered by wave and solar energies, the pumping subsystems has the simplest, most efficient wave push/pull pump mechanisms powered by amplified wave centrifugal forces , the mechanical purifications has turbine filters, reverse-osmosis filters, forward-osmosis filters and relief valves to backwash buildups without releasing brine, release water through collecting spill oil, the solar thermal purifications are provided with distilling processes under vaccine conditions, the delivery subsystems with wave turbines and solar panels for generating electricity, propellering and transferring the stations for delivering fresh waters to destinations under GPS guide with the lowest LCOW.
Claims
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A fluid purification system has stations and at least one of plurality of power supplies including (a) wave power (b) tidal power (c) river stream power (d) natural fluid stream (e) electricity (I) solar power (g) hydraulic-electrical power (k) muscle power, each of said stations has at least one of plurality of subsystems including (1) a mooring subsystem (2) a pumping subsystem (3) a mechanical purification subsystem (4) a solar purification subsystem (5) a delivery subsystem, said mooring subsystem defined by a center line has a tank having entry hoses and access ports multiple floaters and fixed position hinges, each of multiple floaters has multiple arms, each of said multiple arms has at least one pivot hinge assembly, said pumping subsystem has a cylinder assembly having at least one inlet, and at least one outlet and at least one arm joint engaged with the at least one pivot hinge assembly and a position joint engaged with one of said fixed position hinges for defining a tilt angle between said mooring subsystem axis and said pumping subsystem, and centrifugal force radii, a piston assembly movably disposed in said cylinder assembly, a check valve connected with the at least one inlet of said pumping subsystem to define a cavity for pulling and pushing and processing fluids, said piston assembly has two linear hinge pins, and is powered by one of said power supplies, said cylinder assembly has at least one ropes hole and two hinge ears to respectively receive said linear hinge pins of said piston assembly for guiding linear movements of said piston assembly, said check valve has a disc having a guide pin and a spring disposed in said guide pin and a pin holder with said cylinder assembly to receive said guide pin and a seat biased by said spring, said disc is defined by one of plurality of shapes including spherical and conical flat shapes, said mechanical purification subsystem has a body having an inlet port, an outlet port and a relief port, said body has one of plurality of shapes including T shapes, and Y shapes, and at least one of plurality of parts including a relief valve a reverse osmosis filter, a forward osmosis filter, said relief valve has a housing, a disc having a guide pin and a spring disposed in said guide pin and a pin holder with said cylinder assembly to receive said guide pin and a seat biased by said spring for a preset pressure limit, said disc is defined by one of plurality of shapes including spherical and conical flat shapes, said thermal purification structure has a condensing cover assembly having a transparent condensing cover and a fluid collector defined by a low submerged line and a high submerged line and a protect cover and cover adapters and a dark metal plate heater powered by at one of said power supplier, said delivery subsystem has multiple leg assemblies, each of said multiple leg assemblies has a turbine, said turbine has said left rotor assembly, said right rotor assembly and at least two electrical machines, said turbine has a T seal ring assembly disposed between said left rotor assembly and said right rotor assembly for seals said T seal ring assembly has two axially conical surfaces, two radially conical surfaces and two lock ring grooves, two lock rings respectively disposed in said grooves to generate preloading and to compensate wears, said left rotor assembly has an end having a mated surface engaged with a first of said two axially conical surfaces, said right rotor assembly has an end having a mated surface engaged with a second of said two axially conical surfaces, said body assembly has at least one fluids heat exchanger with two end openings for cooling said electrical machines said left rotor assembly has a nozzle defined by one of plurality of shapes including cylinder, conical and spherical, a bladed turbine wheel and a tubing assembly having multiple set of internal blades, said left tubing assembly has a high power zone and low power zone defined by inside diameters of said multiple sets of internal blades, said bladed turbine wheel has an edge ring and a root ring, at least two long blades between said edge ring and said root ring , said edge ring has at least two short blades, said bladed turbine wheel has two radial zones said left rotor assembly has a safety device having at least two safety pins coupling between said bladed turbine wheel and said tubing assembly for protecting a preset shear limit, said right rotor assembly has a. nozzle defined by one of plurality of shapes including cylinder, conical and spherical, a bladed turbine wheel and a tubing assembly having multiple set of internal blades, said tubing assembly has a high power zone and low power zone defined by inside diameters of said multiple set of internal blades, said bladed turbine wheel has an edge ring and a root ring, at least two long blades between said edge ring and said root ring, said edge ring has at least two short blades, said bladed turbine wheel has two radial zones, said right rotor assembly has a safety device having at least two safety pins coupling between said bladed turbine wheel and said tubing assembly for protecting preset shear limits, said bladed turbine wheel has external teeth for land moving.
2. The fluid purification system of claim 1, wherein a first of the each of said stations has said mooring subsystem having at least one equalized rope a first of the at least one pumping subsystem receiving said equalized rope, a second of the at least one pumping subsystem receiving said equalized rope and said mechanical purification subsystem disposed between said first of the at least one pumping subsystem and said second of the at least one pumping subsystem, said first of the at least one pumping subsystem has a turbine filter connected with the at least one inlet said turbine filter has a housing multiple filter layers disposed in said housing and multiple turbines sandwiching said multiple filter layers for removing buildups on said multiple filter layers, said mechanical purification subsystem has said reverse osmosis filter disposed between said inlet port and said outlet port and said inlet port connected with the at least one outlet of said first of the at least one pumping subsystem, said outlet port connected with the at least one inlet of said second of the at least one pumping subsystem, said relief port to receive said forward osmosis filter and said relief valve for removing buildups said second of the at least one pumping subsystem has the at least one outlet connected with one of said entry hoses.
3. The fluid purification system of claim 1, wherein a second of the each of said stations has said mooring subsystem, a third of the at least one pumping subsystem and a fourth of the at least one pumping subsystem and said thermal purification subsystem disposed between said third of the at least one pumping subsystem and said fourth of the at least one pumping subsystem, said third of the at least one pumping subsystem has the at least one inlet connected with said turbine filter, a spray nozzle connected to said the at least one outlet at an up position for spraying fluids, said spray nozzle has porous cover defined by one of plurality of shapes including conical shapes, spherical shapes and stepped conical shapes and a bladed turbine, said fourth of the at least one pumping subsystem has the at least one inlet connected with one of said cover adapters and the at least one outlet connected with one of said entry hoses.
4. The fluid purification system of claim 1, wherein a third of the each of said stations has said mooring subsystem having a solar penal, said delivery system connected with said mooring subsystem, said first of the at least one pumping subsystem, said second of the at least one pumping subsystem, said mechanical purification subsystem disposed between said first of the at least one pumping subsystem and said second of the at least one pumping subsystem, said third of the at least one pumping subsystem, said fourth of the at least one pumping subsystem, and said thermal purification subsystem is disposed over said mooring subsystem.
5. The fluid purification system of claim 1, wherein a fourth of the each of said stations has said mooring subsystem having a solar penal a fifth of the at least one pumping subsystem, said second of the at least one pumping subsystem and said mechanical purification subsystem disposed between said fifth of the at least one pumping subsystem and said second of the at least one pumping subsystem, said fifth of the at least one pumping subsystem has the at least one inlet and a suck nozzle connected to said the at least one inlet at a up position said suck nozzle has a porous cover having one of plurality of shapes including conical shapes spherical shapes and stepped conical shapes and a bladed turbine, said mechanical purification subsystem has said inlet port connected with said fifth of the at least one pumping subsystem and said outlet port connected with said second of the at least one pumping subsystem and said relief port to receive said relief valve, and said delivery subsystem.
6. The fluid purification system of claim 1, wherein a fifth of the each of said stations has said mooring subsystem having said solar penal, said delivery system said first of the at least one pumping subsystem, said second of the at least one pumping subsystem, said mechanical purification subsystem disposed between said first of the at least one pumping subsystem and said second of the at least one pumping subsystem, said third of the at least one pumping subsystem, said fourth of the at least one pumping subsystem, and said thermal purification subsystem is disposed over said mooring subsystem.
7. The fluid purification system of claim 1, wherein a sixth of the each of said stations has said first of the at least one pumping subsystem, said mechanical purification subsystem has said reverse osmosis filters and said inlet port connected with said the at least one outlet of said first of the at least one pumping subsystem.
8. The fluid purification system of claim 1, wherein a seventh of the each of said stations has said mooring subsystem,said thermal purification subsystem is connected with said mooring subsystem said tank of said mooring subsystem has said relief valve on one of said access ports.
9. The fluid purification system of claim 1, wherein an eighth of the each of said stations has said mooring subsystem said thermal purification subsystem is connected with said mooring subsystem said second of the at least one pumping subsystem connected with said tank.
Description
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DESCRIPTION
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[0072] The bladed rings 230, 230 are respectively disposed in a front of the tubing assemblies 221, 221′, each of bladed rings 230 has two radial sections, a high energy section 232a with three short blades 242, three long blades 238 for generating most fluid power and a low energy section 232 with three blades 238 for releasing most used fluid, the bladed ring 230 has a modular root ring 235 and a tip “ V ” shape modular ring 231 defined by two internal surfaces 234, and three long blades 238 structured between the rings 231 and the ring 235, three short blades 236 are structured with the tip ring 234 in the high energy section 132a, each blade 238 is defined by a airfoil cross section and a small root section 239 and a large tip section 240, each short blade 242 is defined by a airfoil cross section and a small root section 244 and a large tip section 243, so the high energy section 232a and low energy section 232 b are divided radially to reach the optimized efficiency, so in the high energy section 232a, there are six blades 242,238 with large mass and larger radius of bladed ring 230 with centrifugal forces, so the rotor assembly 220 can generate more power in high energy section 232a than that in the low energy section 232b, where there are only three blades with much smaller cross sections, even area of low energy section may be equal to area of high energy section, but the amount of energy generation in each section is not equal, the angular division method for the current blade design has a very short period for the peak value and indiscriminately cut off area of high energy fluid and low energy fluid, while radial division method for the bladed ring 230 divides the incoming fluid into the high energy section and low energy section, the blades 242 and 238 generate maxim torques in the high energy section 232a and release used fluid in low energy section due to the conservation of mass, so the bladed ring 130 not only increases the strength of the blades 238, 242 as an integral structure, but also reduces material, vibrations and tip eddies. The two bladed rings 231 arrangement greatly improves the performance by eliminating the tip eddy and greatly reducing the vibration of the rotor assembly 220, wake turbulent as well as the noise, in addition if loads pass a designed limit, each blade 234 has a root joint 235 which would be broken to protect rotor assembly 220,220′ as a third safety barrier, the tubing assemblies 221, bladed ring 130 and nozzle 225 have four joint holes 229 and four safety pin 229a respectively inserted into four joint holes 229 for securing the joints as a four safety barrier, if loads pass a designed limit, the safety pin 229a would be broken to protect tubing assembly 221′, 221 and the body assembly 202, so according to Bernoulli equation ,when the incoming fluid passes through bladed ring 230, first the rotor assembly 220 would generate a vortical flow due to the pressure gradient between a center flow in the tubing assembly 221 with the conical nozzle 225 and the tip ring 231, the rotates rotor assembly 220 clockwise and the rotor assemb1y 220′ anticlockwise due to opposite blades twist angles between bladed ring 230 and 230′, so the vortical flow constantly sucks more fluid without blade tip leaks and blocking area in the center of the tubing assembly 221 than that the swept area bladed ring 231 covers, this is a main reason why the tubing rotor assembly 220 can pass the Betz limit and becomes the so efficient, the fluid outside the nacelle assembly 102 generates three dynamics streams between the bladed rings 230,230′, because the rotor assembly 220′, 220 have two set opposite blades 238,242 in an opposite direction, those three dynamics streams become three much rigid dynamic wind tunnels between the rotor assembly 220, 220′ according to Newton's third law and generate more power than single rotor can do.
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[0075] Although the description above contains many specifications, these should not be construed as limiting the scope of the invention but as merely providing illustration of some of the presently preferred embodiments of this invention.
[0076] Thus, the scope of the invention should be determined by the appended claims and their legal equivalents, rather than by the examples given.
CONCLUSION
1 High Performance
[0077] This quintessential American turbine technology which bring down all barriers no existing technologies can and provides the best performance with the lowest cost ever among all existing desalination/purification processes (1) the station is directly and indirectly powered by renewable wave or solar energy power sources sustainably (2) the wave push and wave pull pumping systems are the most reliable, robust, and compact systems capable of replacing all conventional pumping system and can be deportable to remote area or underdeveloped countries where the electricity is unavailable or to the developed countries where autonomous operations are operable (3) the efficient pressure is generated by the wave energy, it can generate 1500 psi or push-pull pressure system by pushing system A and pulling system B, so the system only requires half the working pressure. Total pressure=pushing pressure/2-(-pulling pressure/2)=pulling or pushing pressure (4) The filter system includes the pre-turbine filter, the desalination filter and the post filter, the pre-filter includes three magnetic blades, which not only remove buildup on the filter layer surface, but also generate centrifugal force with turbines to increase intake fluid pressure and remove solid particles, the desalination filter includes reverse osmosis produces fresh water by removing slats and backwash slats with pressure relief valve and the gravity relief valves to release salts with the most efficient method and play a key role to reduce cost and along with forward osmosis removes salts out and prevent the filter from fouling. The post filter includes some chemical elements for healthy drinking water (5) versatility and deplorability, the station is very versatile and can be deployed to offshore water or brackish area, and be anchored and then the wave turbine/propeller is used for generating power and delivering fresh water. Once the tank is fully filled with fresh water, the wave turbine/propeller can move the station to close to land pumping stations, then the water would be delivered to the water distribution system or pumped to a water tower, if the underground water is much deep, the four propeller/wave turbine would be replaced by four foldable motored legs, one or two intake pumps installed in the wells in series, and additional solar panel or wind turbine around the pumping station may be needed, each desalination station is controlled by a robotic control box and guided by GPS. Finally this station can be used for removing oil spill by replacing the desalination filter with a gravity relief valve
2 Low Costs of Construction and Operation
[0078] The modular desalination stations or farms reduce (1) construction cost by eliminating the facility cost by 35 to 50% of the cost, there are no factory facility constructions, water reservoir, pumping station to pump in the seawater and release brine and low initial investments (2) scalability, High scalability is based on the modular design for a single part, single station or desalination farm, they are all scalable, the modular design of the station can reduce inventory, tooling and design cost, as the demand increases, for an example 5000 GPD station can be made with multiple 100 GPD X 50 stations, 500 X 10 GPD stations, and 1000 X 5 GPD stations, as the demand increase, the more modular stations can be added unlike the fixed capability of the conventional desalination plants (3) Economics of scale, as number of modular station increase, the cost would reduce unlike the conventional desalination plants, the cost as well as levelized cost of water would be reduced as the number of parts produced increase from one to 24 or 48 or 100 (4) No transportation cost, intake waters are pumped in where the seawaters or brackish waters are located and the fresh water would be delivered to land water station of water tower to add to water disturbing system (5) Lower operation cost, there are no transporting cost as well as brine disposal costs or energy cost, and the only cost would be membrane replacement and delivery cost, which the conventional desalination plants also have, as a result, the cost would be much less at 30%, each station can be deported closely to the end users rather than centralized system, if additional water over the usage can be added to city water distribution system for other location, the decentralized system become new business for 21 first century models.
4 Universal Applications
[0079] This water purification station provides the universal applications no existing method can cove, this station can be deported to anywhere either the developed countries or the undeveloped countries, either areas with electricity or areas with electricity, for scale aspects, it covers from a personal water purifier to industrial scale water purification farms from 1 gallon to 100 MGD capability, as far as the salinity levels are concerned, the station can purify the brine water with 50+ppt by using solar thermal purification structure, the saline water with 30-50 ppt by using both mechanical and thermal purification structures and the brackish water with 0.5 to 30 ppt by using the mechanical structures, furthermore it can be used to purify a fluid from other fluid like spill oil in oceans or rivers based on the different fluid special gravities, and is better than any exiting methods from skimmers to dispersant in term of cost and efficiency. They can be used as ocean-survival kits, so if sailors or fishmen fall in the ocean with water and electricity on this station unlike any other lifeboats, they would produce water and electricity survive for long time to ask for help and move to a closed island, finally it can be used as a manual water purifier with the pumping assembly and the filter and a vacuum solar thermal water purifier.
5 The Future of Innovation of the Sstation
[0080] Can we, human survive with water scarcity? Of course we can, once up a time, we had the same problem, but we survived, because we have insatiable desires to overcome limits, regardless human or nature by inventing the car to overcome our leg limit, by inventing the telescope to overcome our eye limit, by building bridges to overcome river limits, stay tone.