IronGill™ Water Scrubber - Synthetic Gill or Pressure Battery

The following is a technical brief for a water scrubber. It is a device to liberate dissolved oxygen from water via an apparatus, described below. Please verify the mathematical process to vet it for any errors for an initial dissolved oxygen volume of 5mg or 5 * 10 ^ -3 kg.

A methodology is provided.

1. Water is fed into downward, into vertically oriented, spring shaped, spiral copper carbide pipes of 3mm narrow piping. They will each form a heating element/conduit with an approximately 20mm coil, outer diameter. A supercritical temperature is required to be achieved in the water. In excess of the natural boiling point for the given pressure.

   
   

   The electric heating element will be inner-lined with an anodised carbon surface. The outer surface will be thermo-electrically insulated with high temperature, white PVC polymer blend.

   
   

2. Anodisation will be achievedby thoroughly doping the surfaces with extremely high concentration hydrogen peroxide solution. It will carbonise. While still conductive, the carbon will be bypassed by the very conductive copper piping, short circuit. The piping will insulated by high temperature, black PVC blend polymer.

   
   

3. The evolved steam will be propagated through the near base of a futher set of similar, condenser pipes immersed in the same water which is the source of the filtered liquid, for the water cooling effect.

   
   

4. The condenser pipes - also spirals in vertical configuration will have a gaseous, air output at the top of the spirals for storage or for immediate respiration.

   
   

5. Liquid water runoff would condense and flow out from the base of the condensor spirals, below the steam entry point, via straight, standard 10 mm outflow pipes.

   
   

6. For the device to be effect there must be oxygen dissolved in the water as the oxygenation supply for fish and other aquatic animal respiration, as visibly evident.

   
   

   The presence of plenty of wave action to dissolve air or the presence of marine plant life such as the great water oxygenator, algae, possibly including sea algae must be abundant in the environment.

   
   

7. A quick technical schema of the oxygen liberation:

   
   

   T [start] = 20° C, 295.15 K

   
   
   
   

   P = 1 atm

   
   
   
   

   R = 0.082 1 l * atm /mol * K

   
   

   = 8.21 * 10 ^ -2 l * atm /mol * K

   
   

   = 8.21 * 10 ^ -5 m ^3 * atm / mol * K

   
   

   m = 5 mg, 5 * 10 ^ -3 kg

   
   
   
   

   Molar mass = 1.6 * 10 ^ -5 kg/mol

   
   
   
   

   n ~ 0.1563 mol

   
   

   ~ 1.563 * 10^-1 mol

   
   
   
   

   P * V = n * R * T,

   
   
   
   

   V = n * R * T/ P

   
   

   ~ 3.79 * 10 ^-3 m ^3

   
   

   ~ 3.79 L

   
   
   
   

8. That presents a viable argument for a 1 litre air processor. It can be scaled for more power intensive systems, such as diesel engines.

   
   

9. In a smaller scale scuba application, the entire water scrubber must be weighted to rotate to a fixed, vertical position. The scrubber must be able to roll over two rotational axes independently, for spherical, mechanical orientation auto-balancing.

   
   

10. That will accommodate the movement of the diver. Multiple smaller scrubber modules may be required as a battery of iron gills to ergonomically fulfil the required function.

    
    

    Constant flow of seawater over the IronGill water scrubber will liberate approximately 21% of the submarine pressure hull atmosphere.

    
    

    In short, the hydraulic return of submarine pressure hull, atmospheric oxygen gas volume should be a minimum of 3.5 times the seawater flow rate.

Chemistry Insights

1. The likely way that oxygen may be so densely distributed in the water, is that the water molecules must form a complex with the oxygen molecules.

2. The water molecules would be at the centre of each complex molecular nano-lattice.

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