US 12,276,090 B2
Atmospheric water generation systems and methods
David James Stuckenberg, Tampa, FL (US); Erick Keith Went, Camarillo, CA (US); Owen Michael Erickson, Tampa, FL (US); Shania Samantha Madramootoo, Dover, FL (US); Miguel Angel Jurado, Jr., Brandon, FL (US); Ethan Emerson Plumer, Riverview, FL (US); and Jashal Patel, Brandon, FL (US)
Assigned to GENESIS SYSTEMS LLC, Tampa, FL (US)
Filed by Genesis Systems LLC, Tampa, FL (US)
Filed on Dec. 15, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/552,173.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/126,860, filed on Dec. 17, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0195706 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. B01D 53/02 (2006.01); C02F 1/04 (2023.01); E03B 3/28 (2006.01)
CPC E03B 3/28 (2013.01) [C02F 1/041 (2013.01); C02F 1/043 (2013.01); C02F 2201/005 (2013.01); C02F 2303/18 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for extracting water from atmospheric air, the system comprising:
an absorber configured to dilute a desiccant fluid from a rich desiccant fluid state to a diluted desiccant fluid state by absorbing water vapor from atmospheric air passing across the desiccant fluid within the absorber;
an evaporator vessel configured to concentrate the desiccant fluid from the diluted desiccant fluid state by evaporating water vapor from the desiccant fluid and to direct the evaporated water vapor toward a compressor;
a liquid entrapment device, wherein the liquid entrapment device is configured to receive evaporated water vapor from the evaporator vessel and reduce an amount of entrained liquid in the evaporated water upstream of the compressor;
a desiccant flow path from the absorber to the evaporator vessel for providing the desiccant fluid from the absorber to the evaporator vessel, wherein the desiccant flow path comprises one or more heating subsystems and wherein the one or more heating subsystems comprises:
a heat exchanger for exchanging heat from desiccant fluid exiting the evaporator vessel with the desiccant fluid passing along the desiccant flow path between the absorber and the evaporator vessel; and
a condenser configured to condense the water vapor after the compressor raises a vapor pressure of the water vapor, wherein the condenser defines at least a portion of the desiccant flow path and wherein the condenser is configured to utilize sensible heat transfer between the desiccant fluid flowing through the condenser and the water vapor to lower a temperature of the water vapor to condense the water vapor into condensed water.