MUMBAI, India, Aug. 8 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202527043008 A) filed by University Of Northumbria At Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K., on May 3, for 'atmospheric water generator.'
Inventor(s) include Xu, Ben Bin; and Shahzad, Muhammad Wakil.
The application for the patent was published on Aug. 8, under issue no. 32/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Disclosed herein is an atmospheric water generator for extracting water from atmospheric air, the atmospheric water generator comprising: an adsorption stage where moisture from input atmospheric air is adsorbed by a water adsorber comprising adsorbent material; a regeneration stage where the adsorbent material of the water adsorber is regenerated by heated air such that moisture adsorbed by the adsorption stage is released in an output airstream; and a water extraction stage where moisture released in the output airstream from the regeneration stage is collected, said water extraction stage comprising a heat pump comprising: a cooled element on which moisture in the output airstream from the regeneration stage condenses, and a heat sink element configured to discharge thermal energy extracted from the cooled element, wherein the atmospheric water generator is configured such that the heated air that regenerates the adsorbent material of the water adsorber at the regeneration stage is heated by a combination of thermal energy released from the adsorbent stage and the thermal energy discharged by the heat sink."
The patent application was internationally filed on Nov. 15, 2023, under International application No.PCT/GB2023/052992.
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