Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Water condenser
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Application No.: US14326369Application Date: 2014-07-08
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Publication No.: US09605904B2Publication Date: 2017-03-28
- Inventor: Jonathan G. Ritchey
- Applicant: Freedom Water Company Ltd.
- Applicant Address: CA Kelowna
- Assignee: Freedom Water Company Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Freedom Water Company Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: CA Kelowna
- Agency: Perkins Coie LLP
- Main IPC: F28B1/06
- IPC: F28B1/06 ; B01D53/26 ; F25B39/00 ; F28D7/00 ; F28F9/02 ; F25B39/02 ; F25B39/04 ; F25B49/00 ; F25D21/14 ; F28B9/08 ; F28B11/00 ; C02F1/00 ; C02F1/32

Abstract:
A water condenser includes a fan which draws a primary airflow through an upstream refrigerant evaporator, through an air-to-air heat exchanger and in one embodiment also an air-to-water heat exchanger uses cold water collected as condensate from the evaporator, the airflow to the evaporator being pre-cooled by passing through the air-to-air heat exchanger and the air-to-water heat exchanger prior to entry into the evaporator wherein the airflow is further cooled to below its dew point so as to condense moisture onto the evaporator far gravity collection. The evaporator is cooled by a closed refrigerant circuit. The refrigerant condenser for the closed refrigerant circuit may employ the fan drawing the airflow through the evaporator or a separate fan, both of which drawing an auxiliary airflow separate from the airflow through the evaporator through a manifold whereby bath the auxiliary airflow and the airflow through the evaporator, or just the auxiliary airflow are guided through the condenser and corresponding fan.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160097595A1 WATER CONDENSER Public/Granted day:2016-04-07
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